LEARNING OUTCOMES

To supply a basic chemical culture, required to describe the thermodynamic and kinetic in the organic reactions of hydrocarbons and common functional groups.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The training activities proposed in the form of lectures and exercises, associated to the individual study, will allow the student to:

understand the structure and the reactivity of coordination compounds;

know the organic nomenclature and the different isomersisms;

understand the reaction mechanisms of organic compounds;

know the structure of lipids, carbohydrates and proteins;

know the classification of polymeric materials and understand their structure;

know the fundamentals of the main instrumental analytical methods and understand the results;

discuss all the proposed activities with a scientific method and appropriate language.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures and exercises in the classroom. The assessment of learning and operational skills during the course will take place through the monitoring carried out during the exercises.

The transversal skills in terms of independence of judgment will be acquired through the classroom performance of the exercises to be carried out in a group.

Working students and students with SLD certification, or other special certification, are advised to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree about teaching and examination methods that, in respect to the objectives, take into account individual learning modalities.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Electronic models of coordination compounds. Coordination and surface chemistry. Bio-inorganic compounds. Semiconductors for LED and photocatalysis.

Structure and nomenclature of organic compounds. Functional, chain, position and geometric isomerism. Stereoisomery. Tautomerism. Conformation and configuration. Overview of some relationships between physical properties and structure of organic compounds. Homolytic (radical) and heterolytic reactions. Chain reactions. Aliphatic nucleophilic substitutions (SN1 and SN2). Eliminations (E1 and E2). Addition reactions. Molecular transpositions. Nucleophilic carbonyl attacks. Acyl substitutions. Condensation reactions of acid derivatives. Reactions of hydrogens in α to carbonyl. Aldol and Claisen condensation reactions. Oxidations and oxidizers. Electrophilic substitutions and hints of nucleophilic substitutions to the aromatic ring.Fats. Carbohydrates. Proteins. Classification of polymer materials. Basic knowledge of instrumental analysis.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Inorganic chemistry

P.W. Atkins, T. Overton, J. Rourke, M. Weller, F. Armstrong, Chimica inorganica, Zanichelli;

F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, P.L. Gaus, Principi di chimica inorganica, Ambrosiana;

J.E. Huheey, E.A. Keiter, R.L. Keiter, Chimica inorganica. Principi, strutture, reattività, Piccin;

G.L. Miessler, D.A. Tarr, Chimica inorganica, Piccin;

G. Rayner-Canham, T. Overton, Chimica inorganica descrittiva. Edises.

Organic chemistry

W.H. Brown, T. Poon, Introduzione alla chimica organica, Ed. EdiSES;

J. Gorzynsky Smith, Fondamenti di chimica organica, Ed. McGrow-Hill;

H. Hart, L.E. Craine, D.J. Hart, C.H. Hadad, Chimica organica, Ed. Zanichelli;

J. McMurry, Fondamenti di chimica organica, Ed. Zanichelli;

R.T. Morrison, R.N. Boyd, Chimica organica, Ed. Ambrosiana;

J. G. Smith, Fondamenti di Chimica organica, Ed. McGrow-Hill.

Industrial chemistry

Cavani, G. Centi, M. Di Serio, I. Rossetti, A. Salvini. G. Strukul, Fondamenti di chimica industriale. Materie prime, prodotti, processi, sostenibilità, Ed. Zanichelli