Year
2019
Units
4.5
Contact
3 x 50-minute lectures weekly
4 x 90-minute workshops per semester
3 x 3-hour laboratories per semester
1 x 90-minute computer lab per semester
1 x 60-minute on-line exercises weekly
4 x 90-minute workshops per semester
3 x 3-hour laboratories per semester
1 x 90-minute computer lab per semester
1 x 60-minute on-line exercises weekly
Prerequisites
^ = may be enrolled concurrently
^ = may be enrolled concurrently
1 CHEM1201 - General Chemistry
2 ^ CHEM1101 - Chemical Structure and Bonding
Must Satisfy: ((1) or (2))
2 ^ CHEM1101 - Chemical Structure and Bonding
Must Satisfy: ((1) or (2))
Assessment
Examinations, Laboratory Work, Workshop Participation and Online Quizzes.
Topic description
This topic is designed to provide the fundamentals of acid/base (buffer) chemistry, electrochemistry and organic chemistry in a biological context for students of the life sciences. The topic deals with chemical equilibrium, the pH scale, iconic equilibria, buffer solutions, redox reactions and electrochemical cells, electrolysis, organic chemistry of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, compounds having other important functional groups, amino acids, carbohydrates and DNA and the fundamentals of biological mechanisms. The basics of anlaysis and chromotography are also covered.
Educational aims
The aim of this topic is to provide students primarily from the life sciences with a chemistry background enough information to be able to continue studies in chemistry and to assist in other topics offered in the university.
Expected learning outcomes
At the completion of this topic, students are expected to be able to:
- Understand the concept of oxidation numbers
- Appreciate simple concepts of electrochemistry and thus recognize and balance redox reactions
- Know the basic nomenclature in organic chemistry
- Distinguish different functional groups and predict their chemical reactions
- Understand geometrical and optical isomerisms
- Be familiar with common synthetic and biological polymers
- Demonstrate knowledge of the chemical structure of amino acids, and polypeptides
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of the action of enzyme catalysis
- Demonstrate knowledge of the chemical structure of DNA and RNA
- Predict the outcome of reactions in equilibrium
- Have knowledge of the factors influencing the chemical equilibrium
- Perform titrations and pH calculations
- Understand the fundamentals of chemical analysis and separation by chromatography
- Work in a laboratory with due regard for the occupational health and safety of themselves and others in the laboratory and of those in the community at large
Key dates and timetable
Timetable details for 2019 are no longer published.
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