Analytical Chemistry Principles for Pharmaceutical Scientists

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Analytical Chemistry Principles Course Description

This analytical chemistry principles 15-hour live, online course will introduce attendees to the critical concepts needed to analyze samples properly. On the first day attendees will learn strategies for optimizing analyses, how to correctly perform representative sampling, increase data quality, and properly determine accuracy and precision. The day continues with a discussion of how to properly develop calibrations, measure their quality, and ensure they are used properly.

The second day of the course is devoted to an introduction to analytical chemistry instrumental techniques commonly used in pharmaceutical labs, with an eye towards teaching attendees to choose the right analytical technique for each sample. Attendees will discover through an understanding of the foundational theory behind chromatography how to optimize their methods to purify, identify, and quantify samples. A discussion of the instrumentation of gas chromatography (GC) and High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) will allow analysts to pick the right separation technique for the right sample.


The course wraps up with a presentation on how spectroscopy is used in pharmaceutical labs. An important technique for performing identifications, infrared spectroscopy, is introduced. Mass spectrometry, which when combined with chromatography gives powerful methods for purifying, identifying, and quantifying samples is presented next. We finish off with how elemental analysis is performed in pharmaceutical labs.


After taking this course attendees will have a better understanding of analytical chemistry, helping them improve their performance in the lab while preparing them for more in-depth training.

Who Should Attend

This 15 hour analytical chemistry principles course is designed as introductory and/or refresher training on the topic of Analytical Chemistry. Anyone who works in a pharmaceutical laboratory setting including technicians and managers, who wish to improve their analyses and streamline lab operations will benefit from this training. This course will also benefit lab directors, scientists, engineers, technicians and anyone else who works with chemical analysis instrumentation, or who must make business decisions based on analytical chemical data.

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  • Learning Objectives

    Those completing the analytical chemistry principles online course will gain an understanding of the concepts of Analytical Chemistry required in pharmaceutical and biotech industries.  


    The course will provide attendees with the ability to:

    1. Learn to pick the right analytical technique for a sample the first time, saving time and money.
    2. Discover how to measure and improve the accuracy and precision of your analyses.
    3. See how to optimize chromatographic separations.
    4. Master how to use infrared spectroscopy to properly perform identities.
    5. Experience the power of interfacing a mass spectrometer to a chromatograph that enables you to purify, identify, and quantify samples with one system.

  • Agenda


    Section 1: What Is Analytical Chemistry?

    • Optimizing Analyses
    • Become an Analytical Chemistry Problem Solver
    • Proper Sampling Technique
    • Performing Analytical Chemistry Calculations Correctly

    Section 2: Error, Accuracy, and Precision

    • Error and Its Sources
    • Measuring Data Quality
    • Improving Data Quality
    • Precision and Accuracy – They’re not the Same Thing!

    Section 3: Optimizing Calibrations

    • Proper Calibration Method Development
    • Measuring Calibration Quality
    • Calibration Applicability – Is My Calibration Right for this Sample?

    Section 4: Statistics for Chemical Measurement

    • Mode, Median, Mean
    • The Standard Deviation for Error Measurement
    • Confidence Limits for Accuracy Determinations

    Section 5: Introduction to Chromatography

    • Foundational Theory for Understanding and Optimizing Separations
    • Gas Chromatography (GC)
    • High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
    • Pharmaceutical Applications of Chromatography

    Section 6: Principles of Molecular Spectroscopy

    • The Properties of Light
    • Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for Sample Identification
    • Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) Spectroscopy for Sample Quantitation

    Section 7: Mass Spectrometry

    • Overview
    • Sample Preparation
    • Instrument Design
    • Data Interpretation
    • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
    • High Pressure Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS)

    Section 8: Atomic Spectroscopy

    • Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
    • Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy
    • Pharmaceutical Elemental Analysis

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