CH1002 - Chemistry: Principles and Applications

This subject builds on the content of CH1001 to provide broad exposure of students to the major principles and reactions of relevance to inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. A major emphasis will continue to be the applicability of chemistry in the wider scientific context, particularly in the biological biomedical, earth and environmental sciences. Physical Chemistry What controls reaction rates? - Reactions, kinetics and mechanism. Electrochemistry - fundamentals and applications in industry and nature. Phase equilibria, colligative properties and chemical partitioning applied to environmental, industrial, physiological and biological process. Organic Chemistry General features of organic reactions, reactive intermediates, energetics. Mechanisms and applications of major reaction types including relevant biological examples: radical substitution, electrophilic addition, nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon, nucleophilic addition and substitution at carbonyl groups. Conjugation, resonance and aromaticity. Electrophilic aromatic substitution. Spectroscopy and structure determination. Inorganic Chemistry Chemistry in nature and industry, chemical manufacturing and cycling of elements through the environment. Systematic chemistry of selected groups of the Periodic Table. Aspects of the chemistry of the transition metals including their role in biological systems.

Learning Outcomes

• be aware of the applicability of such chemical principles and reactions in the wider scientific context;
• be familiar with, and competent in the application of, a range of common laboratory techniques in chemistry;
• have had broad exposure to, and gained an understanding of, the major principles and reactions of relevance to inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

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