CHIMACTIV offers 30 digitial sections, divided into 5 topics directly accessible on the front page of the site: safety in a chemistry lab, basics of manipulation, food analysis, drug analysis, and familiarity with experimental methodologies. 

Safety in a chemistry lab

• Personal or collective protection and first aid
• Handling dangerous chemicals

Applications to food analysis

• Protein analysis by the Kjeldahl method
• Analysis of dietary fats
• Determination of the activity of an antioxidant by the DPPH° assay
• Determination of dry matter
• Analysis of a spring water

The basics of lab experiments

• How should I choose my lab equipment?
• How is pipetting performed?
• A guide to weighing
• How to prepare solutions and dilutions
• How to perform a calibration

• How to perform a titration
• How do you use a pH meter?
• How to use a conductivity meter
• Basics of UV-visible absorption spectroscopy
• Basics of fluorescence

• Basics of vibrational spectroscopy
• Basics of NMR
• How to perform a TLC?
• Basics of HPLC
• Basics of GC

Applications to drug analysis

• Redox titration
• Ion pair extraction titration
• Potentiometric titration of base salts
• UV spectrophotometry analysis

Experimental methodologies

• Contaminant analysis in complex matrices
• Choosing and developing an extraction method
• Some advice about the management of a supervised experimental project
• Metrology