Course Identification

Title:

General chemistry

Code:

20242051

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Dr. Sergey Semenov

TA's:

Yarden Daniel

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2024

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Tuesday, 10:15 - 12:00, Perlman, Rm 404

Tutorials
Thursday, 11:15 - 13:00, WSoS, Rm C

First Lecture:

12/12/2023

End date:

27/02/2024

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Chemical Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 3.00 points

Comments

Obligatory for students with Physics and Engineering background excluding Chemical Engineering background.

Elective/open for students with Biology background (including Marine Biology).

Credit points will not be given to students who have Chemistry or Chemical Engineering background.

If your status is not clear to you, please contact Prof. Oren Tal for consultation.

Please contact the courses coordinator for credit points adjustments.

Tutorial will take place in FGS room C

This course will be held by hybrid learning.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Assignments:

30%

Final:

70%

Evaluation Type

Examination

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

13/03/2024

Location

WSoS, Rm B

Time

0900-1200

Remarks

N/A

Scheduled date 2

Date / due date

28/03/2024

Location

Perlman, Rm 404

Time

0900-1200

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

4

Syllabus

Lecture 1

Periodic table.

Lecture 2

Electronic structure of atoms.

Lecture 3

Electronic structure of molecules. Covalent bond. Valence bond theory. Hybridization.

Lecture 4

Molecular orbitals.

Lecture 5

Ionic bond. Coordination bond.

Lecture 6

Hydrogen bond. Hydrophobic bond. Van der Waals force.

Lecture 7

Major types of chemical reactions: Acid/base reactions, ionic reactions.

Lecture 8

Nucleophile/electrophile reactions

Lecture 9

Radical reactions, and redox reactions

Lecture 10

Thermodynamics (1^st law). Thermochemistry.

Lecture 11

Thermodynamics (2^nd law). Chemical equilibrium.

Lecture 12

Chemical equilibrium – continuation.

Lecture 13

Chemical kinetics. Mass action law.

Lecture 14

Chemical kinetics. Theory of activated complex.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Be familiar with different levels of approximation that are used to describe the electronic structure of molecules.

Be familiar with the concept of the chemical bond, with various types of chemical bonds, and with reactivity modes associated with rearrangement of these bonds.

To be able to explain basic phenomena in molecular chemistry by chemical thermodynamics and kinetics.

Reading List

Peter Atkins, Julio de Paula, Physical Chemistry

Website

N/A