ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 48 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 21 Interactive Classroom: 4 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Organic Chemistry
Areas: Organic Chemistry
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- Students should know the raw materials used in the chemical industry and its extraction processes, as well as the main industrial processes of inorganic and organic chemicals.
- Awareness of the need for environmental control of processes and chemical products.
- Knowledge of the principles and postulates of sustainable chemistry, its main methods and applications in industrial processes.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies in synthesis processes that minimize reaction times, use of organic solvents in reactions and separation and purification processes, use of immobilized reagents and continuous flow reactions.
- Knowledge of industrial synthetic methods that use processes catalyzed by transition metals or biocatalysts.
Unit 1. Principles and concepts of Sustainable Chemistry.
Unit 2. Industrial Chemistry: main raw materials and processes.
Unit 3. Catalysis as a tool for the sustainability of chemical processes.
Unit 4. Reactions in non-conventional media.
Unit 5. Innovative technologies in synthesis.
Unit 6. Applications of the Sustainable Chemistry in industrial processes.
Depending on the economic resources available, there will possibly be two visits to companies in the chemical sector, searching an integration with other courses of M1 module. The purpose of the visits is to connect the contents of the matter with the industrial reality.
BASIC
• Anastas, P. T.; Warner, J. C. Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press: Oxford (UK), 2000.
• Mestres, R. Química Sostenible. Síntesis: Madrid.
• Lancaster, M. Green chemistry an introductory text. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge (UK), 2010.
COMPLEMENTARY.
• Green Chemistry challenging perspectives. Tundo, P.; Anastas, P.; Eds. Oxford University Press: Oxford (UK), 2000.
• Baird, C. Química ambiental, 2 ed. Reverté: Barcelona. 2014
• Rifkin, J. La tercera revolución industrial: cómo el poder lateral está transformando la energía, la economía y el mundo. Paidós: Barcelona, 2011.
• Sheldon, R. A.; Arends, I.; Henefeld, U. Green chemistry and catalysis. Wiley VCH: Weinheim, 2007.
• Sheldon, R. A., E Factors, green chemistry and catalysis: an odyssey. Chem. Commun. 2008, 3352-3365.
• Cabildo, M. P.; Cornago, P. Procesos de Bajo Impacto Ambiental. Química Verde. UNED: Madrid, 2006.
• Plechkova, N. V.; Seddon, K. R. Applications of Ionic Liquids in the Chemical Industry. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2008, 37, 123-150.
• Wasserscheid, P.; Welton, T. Ionic liquids in Synthesis. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, Germany, 2002.
• Earle, M. J.; Seddon, K. R. Ionic Liquids: Green Solvents for the Future. Pure Appl. Chem. 2000, 72, 1391-1398.
• Microwaves in Organic Synthesis. André Loupy, Ed. First Ed, Wiley-VCH: 2002. ISBN: 3-527-30514-9.
• Fitzpatrick, D.E.; Battilocchio, C.; Ley, S.V. Enabling technologies for the future of chemical synthesis. ACS Central Science 2016, 2, 131 (and cited references).
• Paciello, R. Chem. Rev. 2006, 106, 2912; Reetz, M. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2556 (and cited references).
• Lendrem, D.; Owen, M.; Godbert S. DOE (Design of Experiments) in Development Chemistry: Potential Obstacles. Org. Proc. Res. Dev. 2001, 5, 324 (and cited references).
• Sustainable Industrial Processes. Cavani, F.; Centi, G.; Perathoner, S.; Trifiró, F.; Eds. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-527-31552-9.
• Web pages of SUSCHEM and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
http://www.suschem.org
http://www.suschem.org/technologies
BASIC AND GENERAL
- To identify information from the scientific literature using the appropriate channels and integrate this information to present and contextualize a research topic.
- To value responsibility in the management of information and knowledge in the field of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Research.
- Demonstrate ability to analyze, describe, organize, plan and manage projects.
- Use of scientific terminology in English to argue experimental results in the context of the chemical profession.
- Correctly apply the new technologies of information gathering and organization to solve problems in the professional activity.
- To value the human, economic, legal and technical dimension in the professional practice, as well as the impact of chemistry on the environment and sustainable development of the society.
- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
- Students should be able to apply the acquired knowledge and problem solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
TRANSVERSAL
- Elaborate, write and publicly defend scientific and technical reports.
- Work with autonomy and efficiency in the daily practice of research or professional activity.
- Appreciate the value of quality and continuous improvement, acting with rigor, responsibility and professional ethics.
SPECIFIC.
- Apply materials and biomolecules in innovative fields of industry and chemical engineering.
- To correctly assess the risks and the environmental and socio-economic impact associated with special chemicals.
- Design processes that involve the treatment or elimination of hazardous chemicals.
- To value, promote and practice innovation and entrepreneurship in industry and chemical research.
1) Face-to-face teaching activities:
- Classroom theory sessions. Lectures (use of blackboard, computer, cannon), complemented with the tools of virtual teaching.
- Seminars by with professors of the Master, or by invited professionals from a company, the administration or other universities. Interactive sessions related to the different subjects with debates and exchange of opinions with students. Resolution of practical exercises (problems, test questions, interpretation and processing of information, evaluation of scientific publications, etc.)
- Individual or small group tutorials. Tutorials will be fundamentally face-to-face, although the may be partially carried out telematically.
- Accomplishment of the different tests for the verification of the acquisition of both theoretical and practical knowledge and the acquisition of skills and attitudes.
- Depending on the economic resources available, and the sanitary situation, there will possibly be two visits to companies in the chemical sector and looking for an integration with other M1 module materials. The purpose of the visits is to connect the contents of the matter with the industrial reality. The students will carry out a sustainability analysis in these companies, producing a report which can be discussed in a seminar session.
II) Non presential activities:
- Personal study based on the different sources of information to prepare the course.
- Online teaching support (Virtual Campus) and MS Teams. The virtual classroom will serve as a platform to deliver to the professor the exercises and proposed work. It will be a repository for all the information and resources for the ongoing of the course.
Class attendance is mandatory. Repeating students will have the same attendance regime as those who study the subject for the first time.
Attendance at 80% of the classes and activities is a requirement to pass this course.
The evaluation of the matter will be done by means of a final exam on the contents of the course (65%) and the continuous evaluation of the student through questions and oral questions during the course (5%), problem solving and practical cases (15%), oral presentation (papers, reports, problems and case studies, 10%), attendance and participation (5%).
Students who do not pass will be able to perform an extraordinary exam, and the evaluation will be carried out following the same criteria as in the first opportunity.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the assessment of two academic performance and the review of grades" will apply.
Theoretical classes (lectures): 21 hours
Seminars: 4 hours
Scheduled tutorials: 2 hours
Preparation of tests and directed work: 20 hours.
Student individual study: 28 hours.
TOTAL: 75 hours.
It is fundamental to work the matter in a constant way, keeping its study "up to date". Those students who find important difficulties when working with the proposed activities should attend the teacher's tutoring hours, with the aim that the teacher can analyze the problem and help solve those difficulties. The student should review the theoretical concepts introduced in the different topics using the reference manual and abstracts.
Mercedes Torneiro Abuin
Coordinador/a- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814224
- mercedes.torneiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Alberto José Coelho Cotón
- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814943
- albertojose.coelho [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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