CH30219: Organic and inorganic aspects of homogeneous catalysis
[Page last updated: 15 October 2020]
Academic Year: | 2020/1 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemistry |
Credits: | 3 [equivalent to 6 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 60 |
Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
Period: |
- Semester 2
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Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
Assessment Detail: | |
Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take CH20149 OR take CH20150
In taking this module you cannot take CH40219
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Description: | Aims: To develop an understanding of homogeneous catalytic transformations involving C=C and C=O bonds, their mechanisms and the importance of the products they generate.
Learning Outcomes: After studying this Unit, students should be able to:
* Appreciate catalytic cycles and their mechanisms.
* See from both organic and inorganic perspectives how catalytic cycles involving transformations of C=C and C=O bonds occur.
* Appreciate the structures and reactivities of key transition metal intermediates on catalytic cycles.
* Understand how changes of metal-ligand stereoelectronic effects bring about improvements in catalyst activity.
Skills: Data analysis (T, F, A), problem solving (T, F, A).
Content: Metal mediated reactions - H-X addition across C=C bonds: hydrogenation, hydrocyanation, conjugate addition. Epoxidation. Ring-opening and -closing metathesis. Transformations with C=O bonds: Methanol carbonylation, ketone hydrogenation, Lewis acid catalysis. |
Programme availability: |
CH30219 is Compulsory on the following programmes:
Department of Chemistry
- USCH-AFB07 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry for Drug Discovery (Year 3)
- USCH-AAB08 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry for Drug Discovery with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCH-AKB08 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry for Drug Discovery with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
- USCH-AFM05 : MChem(Hons) Chemistry for Drug Discovery (Year 3)
CH30219 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Chemistry
- USCH-AFB01 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry (Year 3)
- USCH-AAB02 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCH-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
- USCH-AFB03 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
- USCH-AAB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- USCH-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
- USCH-AFM02 : MChem(Hons) Chemistry (Year 3)
- USCH-AFM07 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
- USCH-AKM07 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management with Industrial Placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2020/21 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2021/22 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2020/21.
- Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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