CHEM22600
Practical Chemistry
30
Full year
Undergraduate
Level 2
Alan Brisdon
Unit coordinator
Nathan Owston
Unit coordinator
Department of Chemistry
1
FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors '
European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 15.0
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Development of core competency in practical chemistry, laboratory safety procedures including CRA and risk assessment and analytical/transferable skills necessary for working as a scientist.</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">This second year laboratory class takes place on Tuesdays (6 hours) and Wednesdays (2 hours).</p>
<p>Development of core competency in practical chemistry, laboratory safety procedures including CRA and risk assessment and analytical/transferable skills necessary for working as a scientist.</p><p>This second year laboratory class takes place on Tuesdays (6 hours) and Wednesdays (2 hours).</p>
<p>Broaden, reinforce and extend core practical skills, using both the skills developed in the first year laboratories and through introduction of more advanced techniques. This includes multi-step synthesis, anhydrous and inert techniques, spectroscopic and analytical methods, computational calculation of molecular properties, rational design of experiments, independent research and safety assessment.</p>
<p>On successful completion of the course students should be able to:</p><ul> <li> Connect theory and practice to find appropriate methods, to collect data and make choices about the appropriate manipulation of that data.</li> <li> Undertake independent safety assessments of experiments, and carry out practical work efficiently and professionally.</li> <li> Interprete and manipulate analytical data from multiple sources and using it to draw conclusions.</li> <li> Critically analyse outcomes, perform research and contextualise findings, and report results to a high technical standard.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p>
<div><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Anhydrous and inert techniques, multi-step synthesis, more advanced spectroscopic methods, rational design of experiments, data analysis, independent research, safety assessment, good lab practice, time management and organisation, oral communication, literature searching, scientific writing.</span></span></p></div><p> </p>
<p>16 experiments:</p><p><br>Carbonyl Chemistry</p><p>Infrared Spectroscopy of Gas-phase Molecules</p><p>Suzuki Coupling</p><p>Gas Chromatography</p><p>Identification of an Unknown Compound</p><p>Stability of Complexes of Cu(II) in Solution</p><p>Inorganic Reactions of Sodium Borohydride</p><p>Ferrocene: Synthesis and Reactivity</p><p>Identification of Coordination Complexes</p><p>Kinetics of Reactions of Cr(III)</p><p>Ring-Opening of an Epoxide</p><p>Glucose Pentaacetate</p><p>Huckel Theory</p><p>Epoxidation of Carvone</p><p>Structure and Reactivity in Ester Hydrolysis</p><p>Programming in Matlab</p><p><br>Techniques: Schlenk line, low-temperature/inert atmosphere reactions, TLC, GC, conductivity, electrochemistry, multinuclear NMR, IR, UV, magnetometry, databases, literature searching</p><p><br>Software: Chemdraw, MNova, Excel, Matlab, Gaussian, Python</p><p><br>Safety Assessments</p>
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Other
100%
<p>Attendance at lab sessions is compulsory. Students are</p><p>expected to attend all lab sessions.</p><p><br>There is a minimum pass mark of 40% for the practical unit,</p><p>and this cannot be compensated or retaken for the second</p><p>year assessment.</p><p><br>Laboratory experiments</p><p><br>Breakdown of lab assessment:</p><p><br>i) Before the lab, via pre-reading of the lab</p><p>manual and online lab tests, which test your</p><p>preparedness in terms of knowledge and risk</p><p>awareness.</p><p><br>ii) In the lab, summative assessment (face-to-</p><p>face) through a combination of lab book, good</p><p>lab practice, experimental technique/data</p><p>obtained, and critical analysis of results,</p><p>through oral vivas.</p><p><br>iii) After the lab, through data analysis and report</p><p>writing.</p><p> </p>
<div><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Feedback: Weekly in-person in lab discussions and oral viva with GTAs and via rubrics each week via Canvas</span></span></p></div>
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<div> <p>See Lab Manual/Blackboard for each experiment.</p></div><p> </p>
Practical classes & workshops
160
0
140