ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
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
• To know the properties of the coordination compounds, relating them to the characteristics of their components.
• To be able to perform normal procedures in an inorganic laboratory.
• To understand risks and safety standards in handling chemicals.
• To know how to solve chemical problems.
Course contents:
Item 1. Thermodynamic stability of coordination compounds.
Item 2. The bonding in coordination compounds.
Item 3. Spectroscopic properties of transition metal coordination compounds.
Item 4. Magnetic properties of transition metal coordination compounds.
Laboratory sessions contents:
Experiment 1 .- Preparation of dichloro(ethylenediamine) cobalt(III) chloride
Experiment 2.- Preparation of tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminium
Experiment 3.- Preparation of potassium dioxalatecuprate(II)
Experiment 4.- Complex ions and spectrochemical series
Reference Manual:
- Housecroft C.E., Sharpe A.G., ¡Inorganic Chemistry 3th Ed.; Prentice Hall, 2008. Chapters 7 and 21.
Additional:
- Shriver, D.F. & Atkins, P., Inorganic Chemistry; ; Oxford University Press, 2010. Chapters 19 and 20.
-Huheey J. E., Keiter E. A., Keiter R. L. "Inorganic Chemistry" 4th Edition, HarperCollins CollegePublishers, 1993.
- Ribas Gispert, J., Coordination Chemistry; Wiley-VCH, 2008. . Ribas Gispert, J. Coordination Chemistry, Weinheim: Wiley-WCH, 2008.
1. BASIC AND GENERAL COMPETENCIES
GC1 - That undergraduates may know and understand the concepts, methods and the more important results of the different branches in Chemistry, inclusive of a historical perspective of their development.
GC2 - That they may be able to gather and to interpret data, information and relevant results, draw conclusions and issue reasoned reports on scientific, technological problems or other areas requiring the use of chemical knowledge.
GC3 - That they may apply both their acquired theoretical and practical knowledge, as well as their ability for analysis and abstraction, to the definition and approach of problems and of finding solutions, both in academic and professional contexts.
GC4 - That they may have the ability to communicate, both written and in oral form, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in Chemistry, to a specialized public as well as to a non-specialized one.
GC5 - That they may be able to study and to learn independently, with organization of time and resources, new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological discipline.
2. TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES
TC1 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis
TC2 - Capacity for organization and planification
TC3 - Knowledge of a foreign language
TC4 - Troubleshooting
TC5 - Decision making
3. SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
SC7 - To be able to know the properties of organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds
SC13 - To have capacity to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the essential facts, concepts, principles and theories related to the areas of Chemistry
SC14 - To be able to solve qualitative and quantitative problems according to models previously developed
SC18 - To be able to perform standard laboratory procedures implied in analytical and synthetic work, in relation to organic and inorganic systems.
SC23 - To recognize and to value chemical processes in everyday life.
Training activities in the classroom with the lecturer
A) Large group lectures: Lessons taught with different possible formats (theory, problems and/or general examples, general guidelines on the course, ...). The lecturer can rely on audiovisual media and computers.
B) Interactive small group lectures: theory and practice lectures issues related to theory, applications, exercises, problems, etc. are proposed. (In these lectures, the student participates actively in various ways: he hands in exercises that have been given long in advance), solution of exercises in the classroom, etc. The lecturer may use audiovisual media and computers, but in general, students will not handle them. It can include screening tests.
C) Laboratory sessions: This includes lectures that take place in a laboratory. In these, students acquire the appropriate chemistry lab skills which consolidate the knowledge attained in the lectures. Student's personal work in this activity is greatly reduced. For these practices, the student will have a Practical Laboratory Guide, which includes general observations on the laboratory work and an outline of each of the experiments performed. The guide will consist of a brief presentation of the fundaments, methodology to follow, details on the calculations to be performed and results to be presented. The student will have to attend every laboratory session having previously read carefully the contents of this guide. Students will perform individually the experiments and calculations required to achieve the aims of the practical work, writing in their notebook the development, calculations and results of each experiment; they will hand in the results, which will be evaluated, the same day or when the teacher indicates it. Assessment tests are included, if any.
Attendance is compulsory. Failure to attend must be properly justified and those cases falling within the existing university regulations will be accepted. The not made practice shall be recovered in accordance with the lecturer and within the scheduled time for the course.
D) Tutorial sessions in very small groups: Tutorials scheduled by the lecturer and coordinated by the Centre. In general, each student will take one tutorial per semester and course. Additional work includes essays, answering questions about theory or practice, problems, exercises, reading or other proposed tasks, as well as presentations, debates or comments in small groups works. In many cases the lecturer will require students to hand the exercises before the tutorial. These will be included in the activities to be undertaken by students throughout the course and are in the Teaching Guide.
E) The student will find support material in the Virtual Classroom.
General considerations about the assessment system
1. Attendance at 100% of laboratory sessions is compulsory. Attendance at interactive small group lectures and tutorial sessions is evaluable. Unattended laboratory sessions for justified reasons will need to be recovered, in accordance with the lecturer. Absences will have to be justified in writing.
2 The assessment will consist of two parts:
2.1) Continuous assessment (30%), which in turn consists of:
i. Exercises and questions proposed by the lecturer. Resolution of exercises in the classroom by the students.
iii. Laboratory sessions
2.2) Final exam (70%)
The student’s final grade will not be lower than the final exam grade or than that obtained once included the continuous assessment.
3. Each subsection of section 2.1 shall account for the student’s final grade as follows:
i: 20%
ii: 10%
4.For the evaluation of laboratory practicals, the items to evaluate are:
• Organization and neatness in the laboratory
• Experimental work
• Practice questions
To pass the course is mandatory to pass the laboratory sessions assessment.
5. Students who pass the laboratory sessions assessment but not the course will not have to carry out the laboratory sessions again during three academic years (the current one included).
6. Competencies assessment
Interactive small group lectures CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT1, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE7, CE13, CE14, CE23
Laboratory sessions: CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4, CT5, CE7, CE13, CE14, CE23
Final exam: CG1, CG2, CG3, CG4, CG5, CT1, CT2, CT4, CT5, CE7, CE13, CE14, CE18, CE23
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises, tests and exams, the provisions of the “Regulations for the validation of academic performance for students and for the review of qualifications” will apply.
STUDENT’S FACE-TO-FACE WORK IN THE CLASSROOM
a) Large group lectures. Hours: 23
b) Interactive small group classes. Hours: 8
c) Tutorial sessions. Hours: 2
d) Laboratory sessions. Hours: 20
Total face-to-face work hours in the classroom or in the laboratory. Hours: 53
STUDENT’S PERSONAL WORK
a) Individual or in-group study. Hours: 46
b) Resolution of exercises and related work. Hours: 24
c) Preparation of exercises and oral presentations. Library activities and related work. Hours: 12
d) Preparation of laboratory sessions and related work. Hours: 15
Total hours student's personal work. Hours: 97
-It is important to attend the lectures and sessions.
-It is important to keep an "up to date" study of the course.
-Once a chapter has been read in the reference manual, it is useful to summarize the important aspects, identifying fundamental points and the basic relationships that must be remembered, and making sure to know both its meaning and the conditions under which they may be applied.
- Resolution of exercises is important for learning in this field. It may be helpful to follow these steps: (1) Make a list of all the relevant information provided by the heading. (2) Make a list of quantities to be calculated. (3) identify the equations to be used in solving the problem and apply them properly.
- Preparing the experimental work is essential for the laboratory sessions. First, the important theoretical concepts of each experiment should be reviewed and then you should carefully read the outline of the practice, trying to understand the objectives and the development of the proposed experiment. Any doubts that arise must be discussed with the lecturer.
Recommendations related to the assessment:
The student should review the theoretical concepts of each unit. The number of correct choices in the proposed exercises indicates the students’ preparation to confront the subject’s final examination. Those students that find important difficulties in the proposed activities should use the teacher’s tutorial time to analyze the problem and to help to resolve any difficulties.
Recommendations related to the extraordinary exam:
Together with the students, the teacher will analyze the evaluation process and if so, any difficulties in the learning of the subject contents.
Maria Matilde Fondo Busto
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814231
- matilde.fondo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Isabel Garcia Santos
Coordinador/a- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814956
- isabel.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Miguel Vazquez Lopez
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815736
- miguel.vazquez.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Julio Corredoira Vazquez
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- julio.corredoira.vazquez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
Maria Isabel Velo Heleno
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- mariaisabel.velo.heleno [at] usc.es
- Category
- USC Pre-doctoral Contract
Diego Sanchez-Brunete Gayoso
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- diego.sanchez-brunete [at] usc.es
- Category
- USC Pre-doctoral Contract
Beatriz Pelaz Garcia
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- beatriz.pelaz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Del Carmen Gimenez Lopez
- Department
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Area
- Inorganic Chemistry
- maria.gimenez.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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