This personalised learning unit allows students to choose three segments of advanced chemistry topics.
Pre/co-requisites
Core Chemistry Year 1 and 2 units.
Aims
The over-arching aim of the personalised learning unit is to prepare students for a professional career in Chemistry by expanding core chemistry knowledge into advanced topics, to provide a wider and deeper understanding of particular areas of chemistry.
On successful completion of the course students should be able to:
Contemporary f-Element Chemistry (D. Mills)
ILO1 – Apply knowledge of f-element coordination/organometallic chemistry to create synthetic routes to complexes with designer geometries, coordination numbers and bonding regimes.
ILO2 – Interpret a range of experimental data to rationalise physicochemical properties and to propose f-element complex formulations and formal oxidation states at metal and ligand sites.
ILO3 – Apply knowledge of metal coordination spheres and redox chemistry to generate synthetic routes to f-element complexes with low and high formal metal oxidation states.
ILO4 – Predict and explain the outcomes of small molecule activation reactions of f-element complexes by consideration of experimental data, ligand effects, covalency and redox chemistry.
Contemporary f-Element Chemistry (D. Mills)
1. Synthetic routes to designer f-element complex geometries and coordination numbers.
2. Experimental determination of oxidation state and covalency in f-element complexes.
3. Achieving the lowest and highest f-element oxidation states.
4. Small molecule activation reactions of f-element complexes.
5. f-Element complexes of redox non-innocent ligands, including arenes.
6. f-Element metal-ligand multiple bonding.
Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis (A. Trowbridge)
1) Principles of asymmetric synthesis
Problem solving, analytical skills, time management.
Assessment methods
Method
Weight
Written exam
100%
Feedback methods
Lecturing staff will provide office hours during the course
After the exam marking has been completed, students are provided with feedback
Recommended reading
Specific reading material will be provided separately for each topic.
Master of Chemistry (MChem)
Duration: 4 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: F152 / Institution code: M20
Scholarships available
Accredited course
