Stefano PIOTTO PIOTTO | GENERAL CHEMISTRY
Stefano PIOTTO PIOTTO GENERAL CHEMISTRY
cod. 0760400005
GENERAL CHEMISTRY
| 0760400005 | |
| DIPARTIMENTO DI FARMACIA | |
| EQF7 | |
| PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY | |
| 2024/2025 |
| OBBLIGATORIO | |
| YEAR OF COURSE 1 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023 | |
| FULL ACADEMIC YEAR |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHIM/03 | 10 | 80 | LESSONS |
| Objectives | |
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| GENERAL OBJECTIVE. THE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SKILLS BY THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT WILL KNOW: - THE ATOMIC STRUCTURE, CHEMICAL BONDS, - CHEMICAL PROPERTIES, REACTIVITY OF ELEMENTS AND MOLECULES, GASES, SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND SOLUTIONS; - THE MECHANISMS OF THE MAIN CHEMICAL REACTIONS; - THE PRINCIPLES, KINETIC AND THERMODYNAMIC, UNDERLYING CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM; - THE WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS IN REACTIONS. THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO: - UNDERSTAND THE COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF MOLECULES; ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING. AT THE END OF THE COURSE THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO: - DESCRIBE THE COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF MOLECULES; - TRACE THE GEOMETRY AND NOMENCLATURE OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; - BALANCE CHEMICAL REACTIONS FROM THE REACTANTS; - PERFORM STOICHIOMETRIC CALCULATIONS USING THE CONCEPTS OF MOLE, CONCENTRATION, PH, SOLUBILITY; - APPLY GENERAL PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE EQUILIBRIUM OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS TO HOMOGENEOUS AND HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS. - APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY AND REACTIVITY OF ELEMENTS AND THEIR COMPOUNDS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHEMICAL BONDS. |
| Prerequisites | |
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| FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY SUCH AS CAN BE ACQUIRED AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL. |
| Contents | |
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| - MATTER AND ENERGY. STRUCTURE OF ATOMS AND ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS. THE PERIODIC SYSTEM. (6 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - THE CHEMICAL BOND: BOND ENERGIES AND FORCES. THE STRONG BONDS. THEORIES OF STRONG BONDS: LEWIS, BONDING VALENCE BOND, MOLECULAR ORBITALS. (6 HOURS THEORY) - THE MOLE. MINIMUM AND MOLECULAR FORMULAS. MASS PERCENTAGES OF ELEMENTS IN COMPOUNDS. (4 HOURS THEORY + 1 HOUR EXERCISES) - OXIDATION STATES. REDOX REACTIONS IN NEUTRAL AND IONIC ENVIRONMENTS. (4 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES). - STOICHIOMETRIC CALCULATIONS: LIMITING REAGENT. (2 HOURS THEORY + 1 HOUR EXERCISES) - HYBRIDIZATION OF ATOMIC ORBITALS. RESONANCE. MOLECULAR GEOMETRIES (6 HOURS THEORY + 2 EXERCITATIONS) - WEAK INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOLECULES: DIPOLE-DIPOLE, HYDROGEN, VAN DER WAALS. (2 HOURS THEORY) - STATES OF MATTER: SOLIDS; GASES; LIQUIDS. (4 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS AND PHYSICAL EQUILIBRIA. (4 HOURS THEORY) - SOLUTIONS AND THEIR PROPERTIES. COLLIGATIVE PROPERTIES. HOMOGENEOUS CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIA IN THE GAS PHASE. (4 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - IONIC EQUILIBRIA IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION: ACIDS AND BASES. (4 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - EQUILIBRIA IN SOLUTION: SALT HYDROLYSIS, BUFFER SOLUTIONS, TITRATIONS (6 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - SOLUBILITY OF SALTS, COMMON ION (2 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) - FUNDAMENTALS OF THERMODYNAMICS: ENTHALPY, ENTROPY, GIBBS ENERGY. SPONTANEITY OF A REACTION (2 HOURS THEORY) - ELEMENTS OF CHEMICAL KINETICS: REACTION ORDER, ARRHENIUS EQ, CATALYSTS (2 HOURS THEORY) - ELECTROCHEMISTRY. THE PILE. NERNST EQUATION. CALCULATION OF THE F.E.M. OF A BATTERY AND DETERMINATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS DIRECTION OF THE REDOX REACTION THAT POWERS IT. (2 HOURS THEORY + 2 HOURS EXERCISES) |
| Teaching Methods | |
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| THE COURSE CONSISTS OF LECTURES (60 HOURS), CLASSROOM EXERCISES (20 HOURS). THE LECTURES WILL ENABLE THE STUDENT TO ACQUIRE THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL CHEMISTRY. DURING THE EXERCISES, THE STUDENT IS PROPOSED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS RELATED TO STOICHIOMETRY. THE SOLVING METHOD CONSISTS OF UNDERSTANDING THE PROBLEM, PLANNING THE SOLUTION, AND FINALLY SOLVING IT. THE LATTER STAGE PROMOTES THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE THE REASONABLENESS OF THE ANSWER AND TO CHECK CONSISTENCY WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY. |
| Verification of learning | |
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| THE EXAMINATION CONSISTS OF A WRITTEN TEST PREPARATORY TO AN ORAL INTERVIEW. THE WRITTEN TEST OFFERS THE STUDENT STOICHIOMETRY EXERCISES ON: CALCULATIONS RELATED TO MASS AND CHARGE BALANCES IN REDOX REACTIONS; EVALUATION OF THE EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT OR COMPOSITION AT EQUILIBRIUM OF A HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURE OF COMPOUNDS IN THE GAS PHASE; EVALUATION OF THE PH OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS OF AN ACID OR BASE; EVALUATION OF THE MOLECULAR MASS OF NONVOLATILE SOLUTES IN DILUTE SOLUTIONS THROUGH THE USE OF COLLIGATIVE PROPERTIES; DETERMINATION OF THE ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE OF A GALVANIC CELL AND DETERMINATION OF THE SPONTANEOUS DIRECTION OF THE REDOX REACTION FEEDING THEM. THE ORAL TEST WILL AIM TO FILL ANY GAPS FOUND IN THE WRITTEN TEST, AND TO TEST THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS GOVERNING CHEMICAL PROCESSES AND THE PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER. THE ORAL TEST INCLUDES DISCUSSION OF APPLIED CASES TENDING TO VERIFY THE LEVEL REACHED BY THE STUDENT IN THE ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE. TWO PARTIAL TESTS MAY BE TAKEN DURING THE COURSE, AFTER HALF OF THE LECTURES AND AT THE END OF THE SEMESTER, RESPECTIVELY. EACH TEST WILL WEIGH 50% ON THE OVERALL GRADE. IF THE OVERALL GRADE OF THE TWO PARTIAL TESTS IS HIGHER THAN 18/30 THE STUDENT MAY CONSIDER HIMSELF OR HERSELF EXEMPT FROM THE WRITTEN TEST. THE EXONERATION WILL BE VALID ONLY FOR THE EXAM SESSION FOLLOWING THE TEACHING SESSION. THE FINAL GRADE, EXPRESSED IN THIRTIETHS WITH POSSIBLE HONORS, WILL DEPEND ON THE OVERALL MATURITY ACQUIRED ON THE COURSE CONTENT. IT WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT: - THE QUALITY OF THE EXPOSITION, IN TERMS OF THE USE OF APPROPRIATE SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE - OF THE ABILITY TO CROSS-CURRICULARLY CORRELATE THE DIFFERENT TOPICS OF THE COURSE AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES - OF THE AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT DEMONSTRATED. THE MINIMUM GRADE FOR PASSING THE OVERALL EXAMINATION IS 18/30. HONORS MAY BE AWARDED TO STUDENTS WHO ACHIEVE THE MAXIMUM GRADE OF 30/30 AND DEMONSTRATE THE ABILITY TO INDEPENDENTLY APPLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS EVEN IN CONTEXTS OTHER THAN THOSE PROPOSED IN CLASS. THE FINAL GRADE WILL RESULT FROM THE OVERALL EVALUATION OF BOTH TESTS, GIVING GREATER WEIGHT TO THE ORAL INTERVIEW. |
| Texts | |
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| KOTZ - CHEMISTRY, EDISES K. W. WHITTEN - GENERAL CHEMISTRY, PICCIN NIVALDO J. TRO - CHEMISTRY. A MOLECULAR APPROACH, EDISES LECTURE SLIDES AVAILABLE ON THE COURSE TEAMS CHANNEL. FOR STOICHIOMETRY EXERCISES. BERTINI, MANI - STOICHIOMETRY, AMBROSIAN PUBLISHING HOUSE |
| More Information | |
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| ADDITIONAL TEACHING MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED ON THE COURSE TEAMS CHANNEL |
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