ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Inorganic Chemistry
Areas: Inorganic Chemistry
Center Faculty of Chemistry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
At the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to know the mechanisms of the most important inorganic reactions: substitution, electronic transfer and ligands. Furthermore, the student must know how to apply the concepts of organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry and material chemistry to some important catalytic reactions.
Topic 1. Ligand substitution reactions.
Topic 2. Oxidative addition reactions.
Topic 3. Reductive elimination reactions.
Topic 4. Oxidative coupling reactions.
Topic 5. Insertion reactions.
Unit 6. Nucleophilic attack on ligands.
Unit 7. Electrophilic attack on ligands.
Unit 8. Catalysis.
Basic (reference manual):
-R. H. CABTREE, E. PERIS FAJARNÉS, “The Organometallic Chemistry of Transition Metals”, Publications of the Universitat Jaume I, 1997.
Complementary:
-G. O. Spessard, Gary L. Miessler, "Organometallic Chemistry" New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, cop. 1997
-General:
CG2 - That they be able to gather and interpret relevant data, information and results, obtain conclusions and issue reasoned reports on scientific, technological or other problems that require the use of knowledge of Chemistry.
CG3 - That they can apply both the theoretical-practical knowledge acquired and the capacity for analysis and abstraction in the definition and approach of problems and in the search for solutions in both academic and professional contexts.
CG4 - That they have the ability to communicate, both in writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in Chemistry to both a specialized and non-specialized audience.
CG5 - That they are able to study and learn autonomously, with organization of time and resources, new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological discipline.
-Specific:
CE4 - Know the main types of chemical reaction and their main associated characteristics.
CE11 - Understand the relationship between macroscopic properties and properties of individual atoms and molecules: including macromolecules (natural and synthetic), polymers, colloids and other materials.
CE13 - Be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories related to the areas of Chemistry.
CE15 - Be able to recognize and analyze new problems and plan strategies to solve them.
CE16 - Be able to evaluate and interpret data.
-Transversals.
CT6 - Carry out teamwork.
CT7 - Carry out interdisciplinary teamwork.
CT8 - Be able to work in an international context.
CT9 - Develop skills in interpersonal relationships.
CT10 - Acquire critical reasoning.
CT11 - Achieve ethical commitment.
A) Lectures in large groups: Lesson given by the teacher that can have different formats (theory, problems and / or general examples, general guidelines of the subject ...). The teacher can count on the support of audiovisual and computer media although the students do not need to handle them in class. Usually these classes will follow the contents of the reference manual indicated in the bibliography.
B) Seminars: Theoretical / practical class in which applications of the theory, problems, exercises are proposed and solved ... The teacher can count on audiovisual and computer support although the students will not handle them in class. During these classes, the exercises proposed in the problem bulletin that accompanies each of the topics will be solved. Students actively participate in these classes, discussing the solutions to the exercises with the teacher. These classes will include carrying out a small control to evaluate the student's progress.
The seminars have a theoretical / practical nature, although the theoretical questions developed in these classes are associated with exercises from the bulletins and are introduced interactively with the students. Due to this nature, 13 hours have been assigned to seminar classes and not 6 as it appears in the attribution of ECTS credits. In any case, these classes are more focused on interaction with the student.
C) Tutorials in a small group: They will involve 2 hours for each student. In these classes, exercises proposed in the problem bulletins that accompany each topic will be solved, and all doubts and questions raised by the students will be discussed. The tutorials will include carrying out a small control to evaluate the student's progress.
The qualification of each student will be made through continuous evaluation and completion of a final test. The continuous evaluation will be done through written controls carried out during the seminars and tutorials. The evaluation should be based mainly on the completion of a final written test common to all students.
Rating distribution
(a) Exam: 70%
(b) Work and activities (seminars and tutorials): 30% (25% controls, 5% attendance)
The student's final grade is divided into two sections:
a) There will be an exam at the end of the semester in which the learning of the contents and the ability to solve problems individually will be evaluated.
b) In the seminars and tutorials, the ability to solve problems individually or in a group will be evaluated through a control at the end of these classes. The discussion of the different questions raised with the students will allow the monitoring of the student's evolution, including the ability to analyze and synthesize, and the ability to autonomously learn any specific question raised by the teacher.
The rating of the continuous assessment will be communicated to the student before the exam.
The continuous evaluation will have a weight of 30% in the qualification of the subject and will take into account the result of the controls carried out during the interactive classes (25%) and the attendance to them (5%). The delivery of any work not done during the seminars or tutorials is not foreseen.
To pass the course, at least 50% of the overall grade must be obtained. To obtain a final grade as a weighted average of the different sections, a minimum score of 40% will be required in the final exam.
The student's grade will not be lower than that of the final exam or that obtained by weighing it with continuous assessment.
Those students who do not appear for the final exam will be considered as “not presented”.
The teacher will analyze with those students who do not successfully pass the evaluation process, and so wish, all the details found in learning the subject contents.
The evaluation of the skills acquired in the subject will be carried out through the following routes:
-Final exam: Knowledge acquired from the program (general competences CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5 and specific competences CE4, CE11, CE13, CE15, CE16).
-Attendance and work done in the interactive classes (general competences CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, specific competences CE4, CE11, CE13, CE15, CE16 and transversal competences CT6, CT7, CT8, CT9, CT10, CT11).
For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades" will be applied.
Distribution of the training activity in ECTS credits:
Classroom work:
-Exhibition classes in large group: 28 hours.
-Interactive small group classes (Seminars): 6 hours.
-Tutorials: 2 hours.
Total hours of classroom work: 36 hours.
Personal work:
-Autonomous individual or group study: 46.5 hours.
-Preparation of tests and works: 12 hours.
Total hours of personal work of the student: 76.5 hours.
Total: 112.5 hours.
To continue this course with benefit, students have had to follow a general course in Inorganic Chemistry and another one in Organic Chemistry. Furthermore, they must be familiar with the preparation, structure and bonding of transition metal organometallic compounds. It is also important that they are familiar with the instrumental techniques, mainly IR and NMR, of structural determination of chemical compounds.
Equally:
a) It is advisable to attend the exhibition classes.
b) To establish a first contact with the contents of the topics, it is recommended to read the proposed textbooks.
c) Once you have finished reading a topic in the reference textbooks, it is useful to summarize the important points, making sure you know and understand the meaning of the concepts explained.
d) It is important to carry out the activities proposed by the teacher in the seminar classes and in the group tutorials.
Classes will be taught in Spanish.
Antonio Sousa Pedrares
Coordinador/a- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814240
- antonio.sousa.pedrares [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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