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Name of the course: “Advanced Chemistry of Elements”
Department responsible for the course or equivalent: Dpt of Chemistry
Lecturer (name, academic title, e-mail): Dr. Shukaev I.L.; [email protected]
Semester when the course unit is delivered: 2
Teaching hours per week: 4
Level of course unit: Master level.
ECTS credits: 5
Admission requirements: Courses passed previously.
Course objectives (aims): Chemistry of elements is a rapidly developing area with
a wide variety of new and unusual results. Most of them, nevertheless, are rare
discussed in chemical curricula. In this course, the attention will be focused on
chemistry of elements, first, their origin and distribution, then, their newly
prepared and important forms.
Course contents:
Module 1. Nucleosynthesis and new chemical elements. The dominant
elements in the earth's crust and the substance of the Earth as a whole. Clarks.
Petrographic provinces. Methods for obtaining information about the chemical
composition of cosmic objects. The approximate chemical composition of
Universe.
Elements of physics of subatomic particles. Bosons and fermions. Baryon and
lepton numbers and rules of their consevation. The origin of the chemical
elements. Primary and secondary nucleosynthesis. The binding energy of the
nucleons in the nucleus. The shell model of the nucleus. Magic nuclei. The islands
of stability. Nuclear reactions. Transuranic elements and transactinoids.
Antimatter. Pseudoatoms. Neutron substance.
Module 2. New forms of simple substances. Metallic hydrogen. Helium as a
quantum liquid. The structure of the various modifications of boron. Fullerenes.
Graphene. Polymeric nitrogen. Phosphorus, silicon, iodine in metal state.
Metals under high pressure. Types of metals polymorphism.
Features of structural chemistry of non-metals. Chemical bonding in nonmetals using molecular orbitals, valent schemes, band theory.
Module 3. Intermetallic compounds and alloys in science and technology.
Classic intermetallic compounds and alloys – brass, silumin, stainless steel,
duralumin, printing, solder and other alloys. Structural chemistry of intermetallic
compounds.
Intermetallic compounds for chemical energy sources.
Module 4. Structure and classification of new advances in the chemistry of
complex oxides. The concept of valence bonds. The connectivity of structure.
Skeleton. Cations coordination. Coordination groups sharing. Laws of the structure
of anionic skeletons in the subgroups and periods. New and unusual oxidation
states or coordinations of non-transition and transition elements.
Complex oxides with mobile ions, electrons, for redox processes, with
magnetic order. Chemistry of complex dielectrics and conductors. Piezoelectrics
and ferroelectrics. The family of perovskite. Semiconductors and superconductors.
Cuprates. Magnetic materials. Pomegranates, spinel. Interrelations between
composition, structure and properties.
Laboratory training includes sample preparation (solid-state or wet or semi-wet
method), ion exchange studies and electrical measurements.
Individual work (self-education) includes reading textbooks, monographs and
original papers, problem solutions, interpretation of experimental data (e.g.,
analysis of structural data) and preparing a report on a specific problem (or a
phenomenon, method, material or class of materials), to be delivered and defended
in a seminar.
Learning outcomes: It is expected that a student finally will be well informed in
the current status, actual problems and trends in the nuclear chemistry, crystal
chemistry of elements, their new oxidation states, coordination, baric and thermal
behavior; a student finally will obtain practical skills in sample preparation and its
chemical treatment; a student finally will be ready to solve problems and perform
original investigations in the field of chemistry of elements.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods – lectures with a variety of
examples and practice. Laboratory training includes sample preparation (solid-state
or wet or semi-wet method), ion exchange studies and electrical measurements.
Individual work (self-education) includes reading textbooks, monographs and
original papers, problem solutions, interpretation of experimental data (e.g.,
analysis of structural data) and preparing a report on a specific problem (or a
phenomenon, method, material or class of materials), to be delivered and defended
in a seminar.
Assessment methods and criteria: set-off (1st semester) and axamination
(2nd semester)