Chemistry
BS BT DT BC BP BDT
Dr Ray Mayes
6 points * Second semester * 4 hours of lectures, 4 hours of laboratory work per week * Gippsland/Distance (even years) * Prerequisites: GAS2251
This subject is designed to extend the breadth of the student's knowledge of chemistry beyond the topics covered in GAS2251. The areas of study in GAS2252 are electrochemistry, transition metals and coordination chemistry, organic nitrogen compounds, natural products, dilute and electrolytic solutions, introduction to organic synthesis, and carbonyl group compounds. The subject is taught in the internal mode by lectures and laboratory classes. The laboratory component is conducted over a five- day `vacation school' in years when the distance education mode occurs. Detailed study guides are provided for distance education students.
Assessment
Progressive assessment: 70% * Laboratory: 30% * Progressive assessment involves topic tests and examinations * Laboratory assessment includes written reports, a short verbal examination and laboratory notebook keeping * Students are required to pass both the theory and laboratory components in order to gain credit for the subject * Relevance of laboratory work to theoretical study: laboratory exercises are integrated with the lecture topics
Prescribed texts
Physical chemistry text to be advised
McMurry J Organic chemistry 2nd edn, Brooks-Cole, 1988
Shriver D F and others Inorganic chemistry 2nd edn, OUP, 1994