Entry requirements

Completed courses Chemical Principles IN, 10 credits and Chemical Principles II, 5 credits, or corresponding

Learning outcomes

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

• name common organic and inorganic compounds
• describe typical structures for some elements and compounds based on the chemical bonding
• use stereochemical concepts to describe the three-dimensional structure of compounds
• relate the chemical and physical properties of compounds to their structure
• summarise and orally present a given part of the course.
• plan and carry out laboratory work in a correct and safe way and to carry out simpler risk and security assessments
• document laboratory work in laboratory journal and oral/in writing account for the results of the laboratory session
• explain and account for the technical production and the industrial use of important organic and inorganic compounds
• make simpler economical and environmental analyses based on the structure and function of chemical substances

Content

Organic and inorganic nomenclature. Functional groups. Models to describe the structure of a solid substances, (symmetry, unit cell, networks, degree of packing). Isomeri, stereochemistry, conformations, three-dimensional shape of organic compounds and biomolecules, for example proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Consequences for the properties of bonding type and structure (including technical applications): physical properties, chemical properties for example reactivity, the acid strength, association, complex formation, the interaction with light, chirality, magnetic properties, disorder phenomenon. Emulsions, liquid crystals and flotation (including technical applications). Laboratory methodology and risk assessment.

Instruction

Lectures, problem solving sessions and laboratory work.

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.