Chemistry
BS BC BP
Dr Tony Patti
6 points * First semester * 4 hours of lectures, 4 hours of laboratory work per week * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GAS2252
Selected topics from organic, physical and organometallic chemistry. Includes phase equilibria, surface chemistry, natural products, steroids, bonding, use and preparation of organometallic compounds, catalysts, organometallic compounds in the environment, heterocyclic chemistry, orbital symmetry. The subject is taught by lectures, tutorials and laboratory work by a team of lecturers.
Assessment
Progressive assessment: 80% * Laboratory work: 20% * Relevance of laboratory work to theoretical study: the main emphasis of the laboratory course at this level is on development of a high level of competence in skills and techniques relevant to the professional industrial chemist
Prescribed texts
Davies D T Aromatic heterocyclic chemistry OUP, 1992
Shaw D Introduction to colloid and surface chemistry 3rd edn, Butterworth, 1981
Shriver D F and others Inorganic chemistry 2nd edn, OUP 1994