Chemistry 3A (U00970)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : CHE-3-A

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, molecules to matter, 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 Chemistry, and Medicinal and Biological Chemistry (including the With Industrial Experience, With Year in Europe, and With Management variants of these programmes).

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Chemistry 2 (CHE-2-Chem), and Applicable Mathematics 1, and Mathematical Methods 1; or with permission of Head of School

? Prohibited combinations : CP Symmetry and Structure (CHE-3-CPSymStr), CP Molecules and Matter (CHE-3-CPMolMat)

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Chemistry, (School of Chemistry, Schedule L)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
20/09/2006	10:00	10:50	Lecture Theatre 250, Joseph Black Building	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	09:00	10:50	KB
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	10:50	KB

? Additional Class Information : Plus tutorials at times to be arranged

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.