CHEM2107: PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY 2 - INORGANIC

• Practical Chemistry 1A (CHEM1087).

• Core Chemistry 2 (CHEM2012) AND Chemistry of the Elements (CHEM2077)

• None.

• To develop and promote the knowledge and understanding of synthetic inorganic chemistry through practical work.

• Synthetic Practical Inorganic Chemistry

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the intermediate chemical principles illustrated by the practical work carried out.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Perform and discuss more complex experiments in inorganic chemistry;
• Understand the importance of more complex experimental design and safety;
• Perform more complex experimental manipulation;
• Evaluate results in terms of the theory underlying the experiment;
• Extract meaningful scientific conclusions from experimental data;
• Interpret spectroscopic data (NMR, IR, UV-Vis, mass-spectrometry);
• Write coherent scientific reports on obtained data.

Key Skills:

• Problem solving;
• Scientific writing, advanced through production of laboratory reports.
• Numerical skills applied through calculations required in practical experiments and in the analysis of data collected in laboratory assignments.
• Information retrieval and scientific writing, exercised through accounts of laboratory work.
• Communication skills, advanced through the writing of laboratory reports.

• Laboratory classes teach students techniques in various aspects of inorganic chemistry. They are continuously assessed so that the student can learn from one session to the next.
• Summative assessment will include assessment of pre-laboratory reports, laboratory work, laboratory reports. Reports will be marked in sequence and formative feedback will be given.
• The module begins with an introductory lecture that includes a health and safety briefing, and so attendance at this, or an alternative briefing, is compulsory.
• The first experiments in the module are formative.
• Timetabling of this module is interleaved with other level 2 practical chemistry modules.

The first experiments that students perform are formatively assessed and a feedback lecture is given. Subsequent reports are summatively assessed and students will be given formative feedback.

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