610-023 Chemistry 2 (Chemical Engineering)

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a. Inorganic section: On completion of this section, the students should:

Comprehend: fundamental bonding concepts in metal and non-metal compounds; the nature of organometallic and coordination compounds; metal-based catalytic processes of industrial importance.

b. Organic section: By the end of the teaching program in 200 level Organic Chemistry the student should:

Comprehend: the fundamentals of stereochemistry of carbon compounds; the concept of aromaticity; the basic types of heterocyclic compounds; the syntheses and reactions of simple polyfunctional compounds; the main classes of biologically important organic compounds; some of the important aspects of industrial organic chemistry.

Appreciate: the importance of rational, critical and independent thought in chemical science and in the understanding of organic chemistry.

c. Physical section. By the end of the teaching program in 200 level Physical Chemistry the student should: understand the concepts of the second law of thermodynamics; be able to evaluate and make appropriate use of entropy and free energy for systems undergoing physical and chemical change; be able to use tabulated values of thermodynamic data to predict values for vapour pressures, equilibrium constants, cell potentials and related quantities at specified temperatures; be able to use the concept of activity in nonideal systems, including solutions of electrolytes; understand the relation between molecular characteristics and spectroscopic phenomena in the microwave, infrared, visible/ultraviolet and nmr regions; be able to derive quantitative molecular information from elementary spectroscopic measurements; be able to establish from experimental data the rate expression for a reaction; understand the concepts of collision and activation in the mechanism of reactions; understand the connection between a proposed mechanism for a reaction and its observed rate behaviour and to evaluate the proposal in simple ca ses; appreciate the concept of criticality conditions and the various types of phase behaviour exhibited by binary mixtures; understand the conductivity of metals and semiconductors in terms of their structure at the atomic level; be able to relate the various defects in solids and at solid surfaces to the crystallisation, dissolution and strength of materials; understand the chemical mechanisms for the corrosion of metals.

Content:

Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, kinetics, spectroscopy, phase equilibria, solid state chemistry. Organic Chemistry. Stereochemistry, aromaticity, polyfunctional compounds, heterocyclic chemistry, industrial chemistry, molecules of environmental and biological importance, introduction to spectroscopy. Inorganic Chemistry. Bonding, organometallic compounds, industrial catalytic processes.

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Prescribed Texts:

• Atkins, P. W., Physical Chemistry, 4th ed., OUP, 1990.
• McMurry, J., Organic Chemistry, 3rd ed., Brooks/Cole, 1992.