Unit information: Advanced Inorganic and Materials Chemistry for Chemists in 2013/14

Unit name	Advanced Inorganic and Materials Chemistry for Chemists
Unit code	CHEM30013
Credit points	10
Level of study	H/6
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director	Professor. Wyatt
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	CHEM20170, CHEM20180, CHEM20190, CHEM20480
Co-requisites	None
School/department	School of Chemistry
Faculty	Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

This unit develops the inorganic and materials chemistry given in CHEM 20170 to expand the essential base of inorganic and materials chemistry into this more advanced level of study. The unit covers main group chemistry and organometallic chemistry and catalysis. Workshops are integral to the unit.

This unit aims to provide a deepening understanding and widening knowledge of inorganic chemistry, which is appropriate for a final year BSc student and for a third year MSci student and will enable progress to even more advanced aspects in a variety of areas of inorganic chemistry for final year MSci students. The implications of these ideas are illustrated with real world examples to set them in context and highlight their relevance in the modern scientific world. The unit aims to explore key reactivity in new areas of chemistry which build upon and broaden concepts introduced in the second year.

Intended Learning Outcomes

• Develop and apply links between atoms/groups using isolobal, isoelectronic and isostructural analogies
• Analyse and explain data from diffraction experiments, multinuclear NMR and mass spectrometry.
• Understanding of the principles of polymer science
• Analyse and explain data for polymers in both solid state and solution
• Understanding mechanisms of of homogeneous catalysis in synthesis
• Understand catalysis in industrial processes

Teaching Information

Lectures, workshops (classes of 20 students with two staff members) and masterclasses (interactive seminar sessions of the whole class) and independent study. The Dynamic Laboratory Manual provides an important e-learning resource in advance of workshop sessions. Pre-workshop online material will be provided to assist students with the contact workshop.

Assessment Information

Students will be assessed by written exam examination totalling 3 hours (summative 100%).

Reading and References

Inorganic Chemistry, P. Atkins, T. Overton, J. Rourke, M. Weller, F. Armstrong, Oxford, 2006 Inorganic Chemistry, C. E. Housecroft and A. G. Sharpe, Pearson, 2005