ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Physical Chemistry
Areas: Physical Chemistry
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Students who have taken the subject are expected to be able to:
- Identify the main types of chemical reactions and their relevant characteristics from the kinetic point of view.
- Relate the experimental rate equation with the reaction mechanism as a description of a chemical reaction at the molecular level.
- Perform an statistical analysis of kinetic data using a spreadsheet.
- Analyse kinetic data obtained in the laboratory in terms of the theoretical models available for the study of the chemical reaction.
I. FORMAL KINETICS
Chapter 1. Empirical Chemical Kinetics
1.1. Introduction. Basic concepts in chemical kinetics
1.2. The determination of the rate law
1.3. The temperature dependence of reaction rates
1.4. Experimental Techniques
Chapter 2. The kinetics of complex reactions.
2.1. Reversible Reactions.
2.2. Parallel Reactions.
2.3. Consecutive reactions
2.4. Acounting for the rate laws. Reaction Mechanisms
2.5. Unimolecular Reactions.
2.6. Chain reactions
2.7. Polymerization kinetics
II. THEORIES OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
Chapter 3. Gas phase reactions. Theoretical models
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Collision Theory
3.3. Transition State Theory
3.4. Thermodynamic Aspects of Transition State Theory
3.5. Introduction to molecular reaction dynamics
3.6. Molecular beams
Chapter 4. Reactions in solution
4.1. Strucure and dynamics of reactions in solution
4.2. Diffusion-controlled versus activated reactions
4.3. Transition State Theory for Reactions in Solution
4.4. Mechanisms of reactions in solution. Examples
III. CATALYSIS
Chapter 5. Homogeneous catalysis.
5.1. Catalysis, principles and basis.
5.2. Acid-Base catalysis
5.3. Enzyme catalysis
Chapter 6. Heterogeneous catalysis.
6.1. Introduction.
6.2. Adsorption.
6.3. Adsorption Isotherms
6.4. Mechanisms of heterogeneous catalysis
IV. ELECTROCHEMICAL KINETICS
Chapter 7. Electrochemical Kinetics
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The electrical double layer
7.3. The Butler-Volmer equation
THE PROGRAM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
Lab 1. Formal Kinetics: Kinetic study of the reaction between crystal violet and hydroxyl ions
Lab 2. Formal Kinetics: Kinetic study of the reaction of solvolysis of sulfonyl chloride in aqueous solution.
Lab 3. Transition State Theory: Computational study of FH elimination in thermal decomposition of vinyl fluoride.
Lab 4. Determination of adsorption isotherms of dyes by UV/VIS spectroscopy.
Students will complete during lab sessions at least two of the proposed experiments and also Lab 3 consisting in a four-hour session in the computer room.
- Basic (reconmended textbook):
Química Física, P. Atkins y J. De Paula, 8ª Ed, Ed. Médica Panamericana (2008). Chapters 22, 23, 24 y 25.
- Alternative textbooks:
Química Física, T. Engel y P. Reid, Pearson Ed. (2006). Chapters 36 y 37.
Fisicoquímica, I. N. Levine, 5ª Ed. (2004) MacGraw Hill. Chapters 13, 17 y 23.
- Advanced:
Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms, 2nd Ed. J. H. Espensosn, McGraw Hill (2002)
GENERAL SKILLS
CB1. Students must demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge required in a specific field of study, which is initially developed on the basis of their general secondary education, and that they have both drawn on information in textbooks and on the very latest information resources to attain the level of competence required of them.
CB5. Students must develope skills for autonomous learning.
CG2. To have the ability to get and to interpret data, information and results, to reach conclusions and report on scientific and technological problems that require chemical knowledge.
CG3. The ability to apply the theoretical/practical knowledge and the analysis and abstraction capacities to raise problems and look for their solutions, both in academic and professional context.
CG4. To be able to communicate chemical knowledge, procedures, results and ideas, by means of oral presentations and written reports, to a specialized and non-specialized audience.
CG5. The ability to self-study new concepts and techniques in any scientific or technological subject and properly organize the working time and resources.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
CT3. Knowledge of a foreign language.
CT4. Problem solving
CT10. Critical Reasoning
CT12. Autonomous learning
CT17. Sensibility towards environmental isues
SPECIFIC SKILLS
CE4. Understand Fundamental types of chemical reactions and their main features.
CE11. Relationship between macroscopic properties and the properties of individual atoms and molecules: including macromolecules (natural and synthetic) polymers, colloids and other materials.
CE16. Ability to evaluate and read data.
CE20. Interpretation of experimental data from laboratory measurements in terms of their meaning and on theoretical basis.
Both lectures and seminars will be used along the course. 20 hours of lab teaching are also included in the program and each student will perform 2-3 kinetic experiments.
The estimated number of lectures for each of the chapters is given below. Different problem sets will be handed out to the students in advance, and some of the proposed problems will be solved during the seminars. At the end of each chapter the students will be asked to answer a short test exam (15 min), which will be used to assess their understanding of the concepts explained during the lectures.
Chapter 1: 4 lectures and 2 seminars
Chapter 2: 6 lectures and 3 seminars
Chapter 3: 3 lectures and 0 seminars
Chapter 4: 2 lectures and 0 seminars
Chapter 5: 3 lectures and 3 seminars
Chapter 6: 3 lectures and 1 seminar
Chapter 7: 2 lectures and 1 seminar
In addition there are 20 hours of lab teaching. Every student will carry out 2-3 kinetic experiments and their results will be analyzed and discussed along the course.
Lab work from last two courses could be validated
According to the document "Guidelines for the development of safe face-to-face teaching, academic year 2020-2021", two new possible scenarios are envisined for the teaching methodology just in case that the indicated scenario of adapted normality can not be carried out. The new scenarios are included in the comment section under the title of the Contingency Plan.
Class attendance is compulsory and non-attendance will have a negative effect on the continuous assessment. With respect to the lab-sessions, absence should be properly justified. Accepted reasons for non-attendance will only include health problems, exams, and those stated in the university regulations. A student who misses a lab-session should contact the lecturer to re-schedule the practical. Non justified absences will result in a fail grade for the labs.
- The student's learning will be assessed at the end of the course by a final exam (60%) consisting on two parts. In the first part the student will be asked to solve numerical problems related to the course content. The second part will be a set of test or short questions intended to provide information on the knowledge acquired by the student during the course.
- Continuous assessment through the participation in lectures, seminars and activities (40%)
The final assessment will be given by following equation:
Final Assessment= max (NEFx0.60+NECx0.40, NEF)
being NEF= Final exam result and NEC = Continuous evaluation result
The passing level is 5
The final mark will never be lower than the final exam assessment.
Both final exam and continuous assessment will include questions related to the lab experiments developed in the lab.
Competence assessment:
Seminars: CB5, CG2, CG3, CG5, CE4, CE11, CE16, CT4, CT12, CT17
Practicals: CB1, CB5, CG2, CG3, CG4, CE16, CE20, CT3, CT10, CT12, CT17
Tutorials: CG4, CG5, CT3, CT10, CT12
Final exam: CB1, CG3, CE4, CE11, CE20, CT4
Total number of 1 hour sessions: 55 (includes all presential activities).
Number of hours of lectures: 23.
Seminars: 10 hours.
Tutorials: 2 hours.
Lab hours: 20.
Expected personal dedication of students: 83 hours.
Individual or group study: 46 hours.
Resolution of exercises, problems or projects: 20 hours.
Various activities: 8 hours.
Preparation of lab experiments and writing of final report or oral presentation: 9 hours.
- Basic knowledge of integral and differential calculus is required.
- We highly recommend the student to have passed Química Física I and II before taking this course.
- It is very important to attend the lectures and to keep up to date in studying the course material.
- It is highly recommended to visit the site of this subject in USC virtual campus. It includes information, problems and solutions, guides for lab sessions, presentations and activities.
- The students should work on the proposed problems before the seminars to be able to participate in the discussions.
- The students should use the tutorials to ask questions and solve the difficulties found when studying the course contents.
- Basic knowledge of any statistical analysis software (Excel, OpenOffice calc, R, Python, ...) is highly recommended.
Contingency plan
According to the document "Guidelines for the development of safe face-to-face teaching, academic year 2020-2021", two possible new scenarios are envisioned for the teaching methodology and the assessment system just in case that the adapted normality scenario can not be carried out:
Scenario 2: social distancing (with partial restrictions on physical presence).
• The face-to-face classes will be non-face-to-face and the seminars and practical laboratory and computer classroom will be face -to-face. However, the distance measures imposed may mean that it is necessary to reduce the size of the practice groups and, therefore, the number of contact hours (up to a maximum of 50% of the practical hours of the subject) that must be complemented with non-contact activities.
• The tutorials will preferably be virtual.
• The final tests will preferably be telematic.
Scenario 3: closure of the facilities (impossibility of teaching face-to-face).
• Teaching will be completely virtual, with synchronous or asynchronous mechanisms.
• The tutorials will be exclusively virtual.
• The final tests will be exclusively telematic.
For virtual teaching, Moodle platform will be used for the final test and continuous assessment and MS Teams for interactive classes, seminars and tutorials.
Juan Crugeiras Martinez
- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Area
- Physical Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814430
- juan.crugeiras [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Luis Garcia Rio
- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Area
- Physical Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815712
- luis.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jose Ramon Leis Fidalgo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Physical Chemistry
- Area
- Physical Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814222
- joseramon.leis [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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