Chemistry B: Elements, Compounds and Life - CHEM1021
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Chemistry
Course Outline: http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CHEM1011 or CHEM1031.
Excluded: CHEM1041, CHEM1061
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
A key part of chemistry is to study the speed of chemical reactions providing a strong foundation for material covered later in the course. The course introduces modern structure determination methods and the concepts of stereochemistry, which are important in understanding the shape and structure of chemicals. The next section of the course provides an introduction to modern inorganic chemistry and use of the periodic table is a powerful predictive tool. Important foci are the chemistries of main-group and transition metals. Transition metal compounds, d-element electron configuration the reaction mechanisms exhibited by transition metal chemistry are discussed. The final section of the course deals with the chemistry of carbon-containing compounds and provides an introduction to the field by emphasising the reaction mechanisms that provide insight into how reactions of these molecules proceed. Students are introduced to a range of chemistry that enables the preparation of new molecules starting from readily available materials. The course concludes with a summary of how these concepts are applicable to the chemistry of amino acids, peptides and proteins.