Chemistry 3P Practical and Transferable Skills (U00972)

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

The course consists of practicals in advanced inorganic, organic and physical chemistry and training in transferable skills such as: abstracting, oral presentations, writing reports, poster presentations and computing skills. When taken in combination with Chemistry 3A and Chemistry 3B, 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 : Concurrent or prior attendance at Chemistry 3A (CHE-3-A) and/or Chemistry 3B (CHE-3-B), or with permission of Head of School.

? Prohibited combinations : CP Practical and Transferable Skills (CHE-3-CPPract).

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 : 15 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Laboratory	Monday	14:00	17:00	KB
Laboratory	Tuesday	09:00	12:00	KB
Laboratory	Tuesday	14:00	17:00	KB
Laboratory	Thursday	14:00	17:00	KB
Laboratory	Friday	09:00	12:00	KB

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a firm understanding and practical experience of basic experimental techniques used in physical, organic and inorganic chemistry.
- Understand the connection between these experimental techniques and the lecture material presented in Chemistry 3A and Chemistry 3B.
- Work in a chemical laboratory in a safe and responsible manner, both singly and as part of a team.
- Follow a precise set of experimental instructions and present and discuss the results in the form of a clear, concise scientific report.
- Use personal computers for the collection, analysis, processing and presentation of quantitative experimental data, and for a range of molecular modelling techniques.
- Demonstrate an enhanced appreciation of the source of errors in quantitative measurements and the design of experiments to reduce those errors.
- Demonstrate competence at spectral interpretation (IR, UV-vis, NMR, mass spectra), both for confirming the nature of expected reaction products and for identifying unknown materials, and analytical methods such as gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, electroanalysis, radiotracers and magnetic susceptibility balances.
- Demonstrate familiarity with all, and experience of some, of the more complex techniques used in a synthetic laboratory, for example: synthesis under inert atmospheres; Schlenk vacuum line and glove-box techniques; syringe techniques; use of a liquefied gas; isolation by constant extraction; purification by sublimation.
- Locate specific information in the scientific literature and use this information to support experimental results, or present it either in a summarised form, or as a more detailed report.
- Make use of a range of IT applications for the production of coursework in different presentation formats including, reports, posters, and oral presentations.