Prompt course · 8 lessons · 25 prompts · 1 hour · Beginner
AI for Chemists
This prompt course for chemists covers lab math, experiment planning, safety, data review, literature, documentation, troubleshooting, and compound development. Each lesson gives you prompts to adapt to your own bench work.
What you'll learn
- Solutions and math: Get help with solution preparation math, unit conversions, and stoichiometry checks before you step into the lab.
- Experiment planning: Turn an experiment idea into a clear protocol, controls, and a material estimate with AI as a planning partner.
- Safety and compliance: Draft safety summaries, pull key points from safety data sheets, and plan compliant waste disposal with AI assistance.
- Data and results: Make sense of experimental data by summarizing results, checking statistics, and interpreting odd findings.
- Literature review: Use AI to quickly digest papers, compare methods, and spot research gaps for your next experiment.
- Documentation: Convert rough notes into structured documentation and explain your chemistry to non-specialists.
- Troubleshooting: Diagnose failed reactions or equipment issues and plan systematic optimization with AI's help.
- Advanced compounds: Use AI to brainstorm synthetic routes, summarize structure-activity relationships, and outline scale-up plans.
What's inside
8 lessons · 25 prompts- Before you start · framework course RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, ExpectationAs a chemist, RACE fits because defining role, action, context, and expected quality clarifies HPLC purity analysis for batch release.
- Start here Omar's Thursday, two waysA day in the life of a Chemist, before and after these prompts.
- 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Solutions and Calculations
- 02 Lesson 2 · 4 prompts Experiment Planning and Protocols
- 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Safety and Compliance
- 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Data and Results
- 05 Lesson 5 · 3 prompts Scientific Literature Review
- 06 Lesson 6 · 3 prompts Documentation and Communication
- 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Troubleshooting and Optimization
- 08 Lesson 8 · 3 prompts Advanced Compound Development
About this course
7 topicsPrompts for Chemists: From Lab Math to Reports
This course teaches you how to ask your AI for chemistry help in a clear, safe way. You will practice prompts for calculations, protocols, safety notes, data summaries, literature review, and reports.
The lessons follow the order of real lab work. You start with math and planning, move through safety and data, then finish with troubleshooting and advanced compound work.
The lessons
- Solutions and Calculations: Get help with solution preparation math, unit conversions, and stoichiometry checks before you step into the lab.
- Experiment Planning and Protocols: Turn an experiment idea into a clear protocol, controls, and material estimate with AI as a planning partner.
- Safety and Compliance: Draft safety summaries, extract SDS essentials, and plan compliant waste disposal with AI assistance.
- Data and Results: Make sense of experimental data by summarizing results, checking statistics, and interpreting odd findings.
- Scientific Literature Review: Use AI to quickly digest papers, compare methods, and spot research gaps for your next experiment.
- Documentation and Communication: Convert rough notes into structured documentation and explain your chemistry to non-specialists.
- Troubleshooting and Optimization: Diagnose failed reactions or equipment issues and plan systematic optimization with AI's help.
- Advanced Compound Development: Use AI to brainstorm synthetic routes, summarize structure-activity relationships, and outline scale-up plans.
What the course covers
The course covers eight practical lessons that match a chemist's workday. You will practice prompts for lab math, experiment planning, safety, data, literature, documentation, troubleshooting, and advanced compound development.
How the lessons connect
The lessons build in a sensible order. Math and planning set up the experiment, safety and data support the run, and documentation and troubleshooting help you close the loop. The final lesson looks at longer term compound work.
How to use the prompts well
Treat each prompt as a starting point, not a final answer. Add your own details, ask for steps, and request that the AI flag assumptions. Always check calculations and chemical claims against your training and your lab's procedures.
Who this course is for
This course is for chemists who want to use AI in everyday lab work without learning to code. It fits analytical, formulation, process, and research chemists who write protocols, review data, and prepare reports.
Safety and privacy in the lab
Do not put confidential formulas, client data, or unpublished results into a public AI tool. Use approved systems when your employer provides them, and keep safety decisions with qualified people. AI can help draft and organize, but it does not replace your judgment or your lab's rules.
Your next step
Choose one lesson that matches a task you have this week. Run the prompt, edit the result, and save what works. Then move to the next lesson when you have another real task to try.