# Intermediate Chemical Experimentation

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### Instructor(s)

Dr. Mircea Gheorghiu
(Laboratory Director)

Prof. Alexander Klibanov

### MIT Course Number

5.32

### As Taught In

Spring 2003

### Level

Undergraduate

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Some Description
Instructor(s) | Prof.
As Taught In | Spring 2002
Course Number | 2.24
Level | Undergraduate/Graduate
Features | Lecture Notes, Student Work

## Course Description

5.32 involves more advanced experimental work than 5.310 or 5.311. The course emphasizes organic synthesis assisted by chiral catalysis, purification, and analysis of organic compounds employing such methods as IR, 1D and 2D NMR, UV spectroscopies and mass spectrometry, and thin layer and non-chiral and chiral gas chromatography. In 5.32, experiments also involve enzyme purification, characterization and assays, as well as molecular modeling in organic synthesis and in biochemical systems.

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Mircea Gheorghiu, and Alexander Klibanov. 5.32 Intermediate Chemical Experimentation. Spring 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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