Abstract

JENSEN, William B.. Remembering qualitative analysis. The 175th Anniversary of Fresenius’ Textbook: Part I. Educ. quím [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.4, pp.217-224. ISSN 0187-893X.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eq.2017.05.003.

Part I of this two-part article on the history of the teaching of qualitative analysis to undergraduate chemistry majors covers the origins of the course, its theoretical rationale, the impact of spot analysis and tailored organic reagents, and its transformation from a macro scheme to a semi-micro scheme.

Keywords : Qualitative analysis; History of teaching chemistry; Drop reactions.