Undergraduate Course: Chemistry 3B (VS1) (CHEM09009)
Course Outline
| School | School of Chemistry |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Part-year visiting students only |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Chemistry |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Semester 1 lecture course and tutorials/workshops from the Chemistry 3B course, available to visiting students only. Normally taken alongside CHE-3-AVS1. The course consists of lectures in Chemical Compounds: Synthesis Properties and Reactions. Topics to be covered include: Main Group Chemistry, Reactive Intermediates, Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Conformational Analysis and Stereoelectronic Effects, Transition Metal Chemistry of the 2nd and 3rd row, Heterocyclic Chemistry and Asymmetric Synthesis. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Show how the reactivity of heteroaromatic compounds is determined by the electronic effects of the heteroatom(s), and hence predict the reactivity of related structures.
- Suggest synthetic routes to a range of 5- and 6-membered heterocyclic compounds via classical and modern methods.
- Understand the generation, detection and structure of important classes of neutral reactive intermediates, and know how they can be used in organic synthesis.
- Understand the factors which govern the structural chemistry of the main group elements.
- Explain the electronic properties of the 2nd and 3rd row transition metals and how these properties influence the chemistry of these elements.
- Predict the shape of an organic molecule in three dimensions, and understand how the alignment of orbitals within a molecule controls reactivity.
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Assessment Information
| One 2.5 hour exam. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | C3B(VS1) |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Philip Bailey
Tel: (0131 6)50 6448
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Course secretary | Mrs Moira Wilson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4754
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