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Intermediate Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
CH 224
5
10 CATS Points
CH111 and CH112
Extensive: delivered over two semesters
 To extend students knowledge and understanding of inorganic and
physical chemistry and its application to biological systems
 To prepare students for level 6 study and their final year projects
 To develop students laboratory skills and good experimental practice:
planning of an integrative laboratory investigation; collection,
evaluation and interpretation of data; writing laboratory reports,
referencing
At the end of this module, students are expected to:
1. Demonstrate understanding of and draw phase diagrams
2. Demonstrate understanding of the difference between ideal and real
solutions and determine activity coefficients experimentally
3. Apply physical chemistry concepts to areas of organic chemistry and
biological systems
4. Use quantitative skills to solve problems in physical chemistry
5. Derive basic equations of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics
6. Demonstrate understanding of core concepts in inorganic chemistry,
specifically those related to the transition elements
7. Demonstrate the use of memory and logic in solving theoretical
problems in inorganic chemistry
Content
8. Undertake laboratory practical work safely and write up their
experiments in an appropriate style
 Activity and activity coefficients, solutions of electrolytes, DebyeHückel theory
 Equilibrium electrochemistry, Nernst equation
 Heterogeneous equilibria, chemical potential, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid,
and solid-solid equilibria, phase diagrams, Gibbs phase rule, onecomponent, two-component and three-component systems
 Rates and rate constants
 Colligative properties and biological systems
 Molecular spectroscopy: IR and UV-Vis
 Transition state theory
 An overview of the occurrences, properties and uses of transition
metals
 Inorganic compounds as therapeutics
 Nomenclature of transition metal compounds
 Inorganic isomerism
 Geometries of transition metals with coordination numbers up to nine
 Hard-soft acid-base theory of ligation
 Ligands in transition metal complexes (nomenclature, stabilities,
synthesis)
 Crystal field theory for octahedral, tetrahedral and square planar
transition metal complexes
 Spectroscopy and magnetochemistry of transition metal complexes
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An introduction to organometallic chemistry
Laboratory based practicals inorganic: preparation and analysis of an
iron complex; determination of cobalt by gravimetric and titrimetric
methods
Laboratory based practicals physical: introduction to reversible
electrochemical cells; distillation of a binary liquid mixture; three
component phase diagrams; Infra-red characteristic group
frequencies; Analysis of a two component system using UV-vis
spectroscopy; Kinetics of acid hydrolysis- methyl acetate
Approximately 24 hours lectures/seminars, 24 hours laboratory, 10 hours
report writing/assessment and 42 hours private study
Current editions of:
Atkins, P., de Paula, J. Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Oxford University
Press.
Pavia, D.L., Lampman, G.M., Kriz, G.S. Introduction to Spectroscopy.
Brooks Cole
Hollas, J.M. Modern Spectroscopy, Wiley.
Anslyn, E.V., Dougherty, D.A., Modern Physical Organic Chemistry,
University Science Books.
Inorganic Chemistry, Atkins, P., Overton, T., Rourke, R., Weller, M.,
Armstrong, F. Oxford University Press.
CH224 Laboratory Scripts and Lecture Handouts
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CH224 Overview of Transition Metals Handout
Student performance will be assessed through a phase test (end of
Semester 1), final examination (end of Semester 2) and 8 laboratory
reports. The assessment will be:
Laboratory reports
40% (LO 1-8)
Phase test
20% (LO 1, 2, 5 and 6)
Final exam
40% (LO 1-7)
Students build on their knowledge of inorganic and physical chemistry
from level 4. The module focuses on chemical and physical equilibria,
chemical kinetics and their application for biological systems and
transition metals; their uses, coordination chemistry, and complex
formation, together with the spectroscopy and magnetochemistry of their
complexes. The module covers both theoretical and practical aspects of
transition metal chemistry.
Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr R.L.D. Whitby, Dr P.J. Cragg,
1 and 2
Moulsecoomb
2010
2010
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previous module
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External examiner
1
Physical and inorganic chemistry content of CH218 and CH219
respectively
Compulsory for Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences
Compulsory for Analytical Chemistry with Business
Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences
Dr Ian Pulford