irit shoichet

* Developments of an efficient synthesis route for novel ligands * Gained invaluable experience in various synthesis techniques: * Work under inert atmospheres using Schlenk and glove box techniques * Perform multi-step syntheses to prepare complex products * Capable of using distillation, sublimation, silica gel column chromatography and recrystallization to purify crude products * Experienced with structure elucidation and confirmation through NMR (1H, 13C), IR and mass * spectroscopy.

* Worked in the Sill Thomas Analytical Laboratory for Water Research Technology (STALWART) as a research assistant in the field of environmental and analytical chemistry. * Large scale investigating efficiency of wastewater treatment technology installed in sewage lagoons of small rural community. * Sample collection at the sampling sites, and in sample processing in the laboratory. * Gained invaluable experience in various environmental sampling, sampling processing and sample analysis techniques: * Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Samplers as an environmental aquatic passive sampling * technique; * Solid phase extraction used for sample cleanup and concentration; * Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC/MS/MS) * as a highly sensitive and selective trace analysis technique; * Analysis of Phosphate through a colourimetric method measured by UV-Vis spectroscopy * Provided assistance to grad students / lab staff with daily operations and tasks in laboratory and research activities.