CH32050: Advanced chemistry 1 for Natural Sciences
[Page last updated: 23 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemistry |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 1
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| Assessment Summary: | EXCB 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Closed-book written examination (EXCB 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take CH22008
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Examine and appraise the importance of the f-block elements (lanthanides and actinides), selecting specific examples to rationalises their differences, reactivity, applications and properties;
- Analyse and predict the stereochemical outcome of a variety of organic reactions and account for this via examination of the mechanism;
- Describe organoelement chemistry and how this can be applied to effect a range of simple transformations and apply this knowledge to solve problems;
- Explain and interpret the formation and decay of electronically excited states in molecules and employ simple calculations to solve problems;
- Discuss modern instrumental methods for photochemical investigations.
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| Synopsis: | The unit will further develop your core knowledge of chemistry and encourage approaches to independent learning.
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| Content: | You will have lectures on advanced material including (but not limited) to the following:
f-block chemistry - orbitals, electronic configurations, lanthanide contraction, characterisation, reactivity and applications. Introduction to elementary radiochemistry of relevance to actinide chemistry.
Controlling stereoselectivity 芒锟斤拷 control of absolute stereochemistry, chiral pool and resolution, chiral auxiliaries/reagents and enantioselective catalysis.
Organoelement chemistry 芒锟斤拷 chemistry of organoboron/silicon/sulfur compounds, their preparation and reactivity.
Photochemistry 芒锟斤拷 Excited state structures, quantum yield, quenching, Förster and Dexter energy transfer.
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| Course availability: |
CH32050 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Chemistry
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Biochemistry stream) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Biology stream) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Environmental Science) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Pharmacology) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Physics) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Biochemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Biology) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Pharmacology) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Chemistry with Physics) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFM10 : MSci(Hons) Natural Sciences (Physics with Chemistry) (Year 3)
CH32050 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Chemistry
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biochemistry with Environmental Science) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Biology with Environmental Science) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Environmental Science with Biochemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Environmental Science with Biology) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Environmental Science with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Pharmacology with Chemistry) (Year 3)
- USSC-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Natural Sciences (Physics with Chemistry) (Year 3)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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