Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

• The periodic system: atom structure, properties of the elements, the size of atoms and the significance of the size
• Covalent and non-covalent bindings; ionization and ionization energy, electron affinity and electronegativity; charge and mass balances; basic electrochemistry, potentiometry and electrodes
• Separation techniques and chromatography; empirical properties and kinetic theories for gases
• Aliphatic and aromatic carbon compounds; functional groups; stereochemistry and nomenclature
• Acids, bases, buffers, solubility products, equilibria, reaction mechanisms and thermochemistry
• Laboratory safety
• Basic chemical laboratory exercises

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who have passed the module

• Should know and understand the periodic table
• Should understand chemical equilibria, chemical reactions, and basic thermodynamical principles
• Can account for acid/base and redox properties for important chemical compounds and elements
• Can understand and account for nomenclature in organic chemistry, the structure of organic compounds and reaction mechanisms for organic compounds
• Can understand and account for safe laboratory practice and behavior
• Can understand basic analytical chemistry techniques (i.e. titration, spectrophotometry, chromatography)

Skills

• Can address fundamental characters for elements based upon their placement in the periodic system
• Can calculate the relation between ionized and unionized amount of an ionizable compound in water
• Can characterize chemical compounds with respect to acid/base and oxidative/reductive properties
• Can evaluate how a chemical reaction will proceed based upon thermodynamic considerations
• Can read and understand state chart diagrams and calculate the concentration of a compound in the liquid and gas phase based upon gas-liquid equilibrium constants
• Can name organic compounds and account for basic organic reactions, their products and reaction mechanisms

Competences

• Can use basic chemical and physical principles on biological and process technological problems
• Can move and work safely in a chemical laboratory

Type of instruction

• Lectures, calculation exercises, laboratory exercises

Extent and expected workload

150 hours

Exam

Exams