Chemistry 3A (VS1) (U03760)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 9 ? Acronym : CHE-3-AVS1

Semester 1 lecture courses and tutorials/workshops from the Chemistry 3A course, available to visiting students only. Normally taken alongside CHE-3-BVS1. The course consists of lectures in structure, spectroscopy and analysis in the following areas: Symmetry and Structure, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Specroscopy, Mass Spectrometry, Structure and Bonding and X-Ray Crystallography.

Entry Requirements

? This course is only available to part year visiting students.

? This course is a variant of the following course : U00970

? Pre-requisites : Only available to visiting students.

? Prohibited combinations : Chemistry 3A (CHE-3-A), 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 : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

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.
- 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.
- 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 how crystal structures are obtained, and the relationship between the diffraction pattern measured from a crystal and the crystal structure.