1997 QUT Handbook

Courses: CH32
Prerequisites: CHB173, CHB183, MAB200, PHB122
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB289 ORGANIC & PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Physical chemistry: Calorie counting – the underlying principle,
first and second laws of thermodynamics; gases and respiration,
Boyle’s Law and the breathing process, Charles Law,
Henry’s Law and oxygen hyperbaric therapy, Graham’s Law;
Speed control of chemical and biochemical processes. Organic
chemistry: the chemistry of hydrocarbons, stereochemistry,
functional group chemistry, polyfunctional compounds, biologically
important organic compounds including sugars,
polycarboxylic acids, lipids, peptides and proteins,
heterocyclic compounds.
Courses: PU45 Prerequisites: CHB142
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 4 per week
Incompatible with: CHB242, CHB282
■ CHB313 ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 3
Analytical techniques including volumetric glassware, basic
laboratory equipment, laboratory balances (top-pan and analytical),
sampling, sample dissolution principles;
neutralimetry; redoximetry; precipitimetry; compleximetry;
gravimetry; treatment of results; instrumental methods.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB253, CHB282 or CHB283
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB333 INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 3
Coordination chemistry; bonding and structure of metal complexes
including crystal field theory and valence bond theory;
an introduction to group theory; spectroscopic terms; solution
chemistry – the structure of water; aqueous solutions; inorganic
properties of water; distribution diagrams; hydrolysis; EH/pH
diagrams; bioinorganic chemistry – biological significance of
ligands and metals; HSAB theory; complex equilibria; applications
with examples of selected bioinorganic systems – proteins,
haem, etc.; chemistry of lanthanides and actinides; chemistry
of selected non-metals; chemistry of precious metals.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB282 or CHB283
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB346 ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY C
Specialised chemistry unit designed for civil engineers and
includes such topics as pH control; the chemistry of materials;
polymers and composites; corrosion and its prevention.
Courses: CE42 Prerequisites: CHB002 or equivalent
Credit Points: 4 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ CHB352 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 3
Fundamentals of organic reactions; major mechanistic classes,
nucleophilic substitution, elimination, electrophilic addition,
nucleophilic addition, electrophilic substitution; ultraviolet
spectroscopy: electronic transitions, chromophores,
bathochromic and hypsochromic shifts, sampling; infrared
spectroscopy: classification of vibrations, effects of: molecular
association, conjugation, cumulation, a-halogens, ring and
steric strain. Sampling; nuclear magnetic resonance – basic
principles, classification of nuclei, the shielding constant.
(xxx1)1H spectra, areas and integrals, chemical shifts and
coupling. Sampling.
Courses: ED50, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB282
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB353 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 3A
The chemistry of carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives,
carbanion chemistry including aldol and Claisen condensations;
optical and geometrical isomers, stereochemical
formulae, the sequence rules and nomenclature, the polarimeter
and specific rotation; conformation of ethane, butane,
small rings, cyclohexane and substituted cyclohexanes; ultraviolet
spectroscopy; infrared spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic
resonance.
Courses: CH32 Prerequisites: CHB183, CHB283
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
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■ CHB372 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 3
Equilibrium electrochemistry: models of the electrified interface,
absolute electrode potential. Ionic absorption,
electrocapillary curves, surface excess, molecular adsorption;
phase rule: derivation of phase rule, applications to one component,
binary, condensed and ternary systems; thermodynamics:
second and third laws; free energy and chemical equilibrium
ideal systems; chemical kinetics: order and molecularity
of reactions, temperature effects. Reaction rate theories, complex
reactions; bonding theory: orbitals and energies of the
hydrogen atom; many electron atoms, molecular orbitals;
spectroscopy: interaction of radiation with matter. Principles,
instrumental design and applications of rotational, vibrational
and electronic spectroscopy.
Courses: ED50, SC30 Prerequisites: CHB282 or CHB283
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB373 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 3A
Equilibrium electrochemistry; applied phase chemistry; applied
thermodynamics: second and third laws; kinetics: complex
reactions, mechanisms; spectroscopy: interaction of radiation
with matter.
Courses: CH32 Prerequisites: CHB282 or CHB283
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB402 CHEMICALS IN SOCIETY
An introduction to the role of chemistry and its products in
our society. Historical and societal aspects are incorporated
in the study of a number of relevant applications of chemistry
in consumer products. Topics include: chemical hazards, drugs
and medicine, water purity, food chemistry, synthetic substances
and resources and the environment.
Courses: ED50 only Prerequisites: CHB001 or equivalent
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB411 ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL
CHEMISTRY
Lectures and practicals in the biological sciences dealing with
the principles and application of sampling, and electrometric/
spectroscopic/flame separation to the analysis of materials
from the biosphere.
Courses: PU42, PU44, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB242 or CHB282
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 4 per week
Incompatible with: A major in Chemistry or CHB313
■ CHB423 CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY 4
The chemical industry; process flowsheets; sources and interpretation
of data; industrial stoichiometry; material and energy
balance calculations for both principles of particle mechanics
and their applications in solids handling, crushing and
grinding; classification; solid-liquid separation operations;
solid-fluid contacting operations; fluid mechanics and their
applications in storage, transport, mixing and dispersing operations;
liquid-liquid extraction operations.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: PHB122 , CHB373 or CHB372
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB453 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 4
A critical analysis of the chemistry of five and six-membered
heterocyclic systems with a single hetero atom; preparation,
stability and applications to organo synthesis of the main group
organometallic compounds; rearrangement reactions which
involve 1, 2-shifts to electron-deficient elements; principles
and practice of thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid and high
performance liquid chromatography in the separation and
analysis of organic compounds.
Courses: CH32, ED50, SC30
Prerequisites: CHB352 or CHB353
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 5 per week
■ CHB466 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
An introduction to environmental chemistry for engineers.
Introduces chemistry of environmental processes in atmosphere
and hydrosphere. Effects of pollutants on the environment.
Review of analytical techniques. Global issues includ-