Entry requirements

Completed courses Chemical Principles IN, 10 credits and Chemical Principles II, 5 credits and Structure and Function of Chemical Substances 10 credits or corresponding

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Account for basic reaction mecanistic concept within organic and inorganic chemistry
• Account for basic concepts within reaction kinetics and catalysis and carry out calculations for reactions with several reaction steps.
• Discuss the chemical reactions of functional groups and predict the relative speed of reactions and processes
• Derive rate expressions and carry out kinetic calculations on various types of chemical reaction mechanisms.
• Account for basic photochemical processes and reactions.
• Give examples of spontaneous and induced nuclear reactions and technical use of some isotopes
• Plan and carry out laboratory work in a correct and safe way and carry out simpler risk and security assessments
• Document laboratory work in a laboratory journal and oral/in writing account for the results of the laboratory session
• Make simpler economical and environmental analyses for choice of synthesis method.
• Account for technical applications of important organic and inorganic reactions.

Content

Reaction types,t ex addition, elimination, substitution, oxidation, reduction. Lewis acis, Lewis base, nucleophilic, electrophilic. The most common reactions of functional groups. Technical applications of important organic and inorganic reactions. Scale up problem. Reaction kinetics with concepts such as reaction rate, reaction mechanism, reaction order, rate constant, activation energy and steady state. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, industrial use of catalysis, electrochemistry with technical applications, photochemistry, nuclear chemistry.

Instruction

The teaching is given as lectures, lessons, seminars, laboratory sessions and projects with presentations. Communication training and profile according to chosen specialisation integrated with other course parts.

Assessment

Written examinations are organised at the end of the course and/or during the course and corresponds 5 credits. The laboratory sessions correspond to 4 credits (of which the use of computers is 1 credit)and chemistry profile 1 credit. To pass final grades it is required that all parts have been assessed passed. The final grade corresponds to a weighted sum of the results of the written examination and the laboratory sessions.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.