Undergraduate Course: Chemistry 3A (CHEM09005)
Course Outline
| School | School of Chemistry |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Chemistry |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course consists of lectures in structure, spectroscopy and analysis. Topics to be covered include: symmetry and structure, electronic spectroscopy, structure and bonding, molecular spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electroanalytical methods, X-ray crystallography, statistical thermodynamics, phases and interfaces. When taken in combination with Chemistry 3B and Chemistry 3P, this course forms part of the prescribed third year curriculum for students on degrees in Chemistry, Chemistry with Environmental & Sustainable Chemistry, Chemistry with Materials Chemistry, and Medicinal and Biological Chemistry (including the With Industrial Experience, With Year Abroad, and With Management variants of these programmes). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-22 | | | | 09:00 - 12:00 | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-22 | 09:00 - 12:00 | | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-22 | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 09:00 - 09:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Introductory Lecture, Lecture Theatre T250 |
| Additional information |
Plus tutorials at times to be arranged |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Paper 1 | 2:30 | | | | Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Paper 2 | 2:30 | | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | Paper 1 | 2:30 | | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | Paper 2 | 2:30 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Assign molecules to point groups and use symmetry properties to predict vibrational spectra and describe atomic and molecular orbitals.
- Understand the basis of spectroscopic selection rules and of experimental spectroscopic methods.
- Interpret the electronic behaviour of transition metal coordination compounds, and have a basic understanding of ESR spectroscopy.
- Predict the structure of the ground state, electronically excited states and the ionic states of small molecules using molecular orbital theory.
- Use the Huckel Approximation to describe the electronic structure of large molecules, extend it to the band structure of solids and rationalise their electronic conductivity and spectroscopic properties.
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the factors which determine the energies, intensities and linewidths of the transitions observed in molecular rotation, vibrational and electronic spectra.
- Identify the optimum methods for obtaining mass spectra for range of molecules, and predict the breakdown peaks of simple molecules.
- Understand the principles of NMR spectroscopy, and undertake structural and stereochemical interpretation from 1D and 2D NMR spectra.
- Understand a range of analytical electrochemical techniques.
- Understand how crystal structures are obtained, and the relationship between the diffraction pattern measured from a crystal and the crystal structure.
- Explain what a partition function is, and use it to calculate thermodynamic properties.
- Explain the bulk properties of substances in relation to the structure of their constituent molecules.
- Draw and interpret phase diagrams, and understand the thermodynamics of phase transitions in terms of the behaviour at the interfaces between phases. |
Assessment Information
| 2 x 3 hour exams. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | C3A |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Philip Camp
Tel: (0131 6)50 4763
Email: Philip.Camp@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Moira Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4754
Email: Moira.Wilson@ed.ac.uk |
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