| Course label : | Physical Chemistry |
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| Teaching departement : | CMA / |
| Teaching manager : | Madam GAELLE FONTAINE |
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| Potential ects : | 0 |
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| Code and label (hp) : | ENSCL_CPI_M3_1_3_1 - Chimie physique |
Education team
Teachers : Madam GAELLE FONTAINE / Madam AURELIE ROLLE / Madam CATHERINE RENARD / Madam MARIE COLMONT / Mister CHARAFEDDINE JAMA
External contributors (business, research, secondary education): various temporary teachers
Summary
The quantum model of the atom and molecules are described with the aim of understanding reactivity in organic chemistry through molecular orbitals, as part of the approximation of frontier orbitals. The architecture of crystalline solids is described for the typical structures of metallic, ionic, covalent and macro-covalent crystals. Geometric crystallography and X-ray crystallography fundamentals are discussed. A portion of the course is dedicated to chemical and electrical energies with a particular focus on conversion and storage. It is divided into thermodynamics and the kinetics of oxidoreductase reactions.
Educational goals
Quantum modelling and reactivity: - Know how to build atomic and molecular orbitals for simple cases; - Know how to interpret a diagram of molecular orbitals obtained from fragment orbitals; - Identify frontier orbitals and predict the reactivity of an entity. Coordination chemistry: - Know the nomenclature and know how to construct molecular orbital diagrams of transition metal complexes; - Identify the Pi effects; - Interpret the steps of a catalytic cycle. Crystalline solids: - Know how to describe a perfect crystal; - Know the typical structures of metals, an interstitial or substitutional alloy; - Know how to reconstitute a crystal from crystallographic parameters; - Predict ionic structures; - Connect macroscopic properties to the different types of bonds in crystals. - Apply Bragg's law. Thermodynamics of oxidoreductase reactions - Determine standard reaction values by studying batteries (relationship between chemical affinity and Nernst potentials, relationship between standard free enthalpy and standard potentials, thermodynamic approach to the workings of electrochemical batteries, irreversibility and maximum recoverable electrical work) Kinetics of oxidation-reduction reactions - Understand and use current-potential curves, study of spontaneous and forced transformations, corrosion
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Knowledge control procedures
Continuous Assessment
Comments: Continuous assessment is based on four tests and, in the first semester, multiple-choice tests.
Online resources
Course handouts
Pedagogy
The courses are taught in the lectures (with the entire class present) and in tutorials (for which the class is divided in half).
Sequencing / learning methods
| Number of hours - Lectures : | 54 |
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| Number of hours - Tutorial : | 41 |
| Number of hours - Practical work : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Seminar : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Half-group seminar : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TEA (Autonomous learning) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TNE (Non-supervised activities) : | 0 |
| Number of hours in CB (Fixed exams) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in PER (Personal work) : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Projects : | 0 |
Prerequisites
First-year integrated preparatory programme (CPI) curriculum: Atomistic, chemical transformations in aqueous solutions (oxidation-reduction reaction block), mixtures and transformation: thermodynamic aspects