TEXTBOOK: New Custom Edition for University of British Columbia of General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Applications by Ralph H. Petrucci, William S. Harwood, Geoffrey Herring; also contains selections from Organic Chemistry by Paula Yurkanis Bruice (NOTE: Previous UBC Custom Edition will be also be suitable).
PHASE EQUILIBRIA
(three lectures)
•Phase diagrams of one-component systems.
EQUILIBRIUM AND CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
(nine lectures)
•The equilibrium constant for physical and chemical changes;K in terms of activity.
•Thermochemistry and the first law of Thermodynamics (energy, work); Hess's law.
•Entropy and the second and third laws of Thermodynamics (ΔS, ΔS°, S°) and spontaneous
processes.
•Free energy (ΔG, ΔG°), K in terms of ΔG°, and the temperature dependence of K.
•Spontaneous processes: ΔG = ΔG° + RtlnQ.
•Electrochemistry and the Nernst equation.
CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION
(four lectures)
•Weak acids and bases and their salts, breakdown of usual approximations in these
calculations, buffer solutions and buffer action, how to make a buffer solution.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(eighteen lectures)
•Hydrocarbons - isomers, physical properties, nomenclature
•Conformational analysis of hydrocarbons and cyclohexane
•Functional groups - structure and nomenclature
•Stereochemistry - enantiomers and diastereomers, optical activity, absolute configuration,
resolution, cis-trans isomers
•Reactivity - substitution reactions (SN1 and SN2), mechanisms, stereochemical consequences
of SN1 and SN2 reactions