Chemistry 318: Principles of Catalysis

CHEM 318, September-December 2016

MWF 9-10 am, Chemistry D300

Instructor: Parisa Mehrkhodavandi

Office:  D322

Office hours: By appointment

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Textbook:

Rothenberg: Catalysis: Concepts and Green Applications

Available as an e-text UBC library

References Books:

Van Leeuwen;  Homogeneous Catalysis:  Understanding the Art

Outline:

1. Introduction and Green Chemistry
   • What is Green Chemistry?
   • Life cycle assessment
   • Stoichiometric vs catalytic processes
   • Mechanisms and techniques to study mechanisms
2. Fundamental concepts
   • Basics of kinetics and thermodynamics of reactions
   • Coordination chemistry and bonding
   • Overview of substitution reactions
   • Principles of catalysis
   • Determining rate, 0^th, 1^st, 2^nd order reactions
   • pre-equilibrium and the steady state approximation
   • catalyst deactivation, co-catalysts
3. Industrially relevant homogeneous catalysis
   • Hydrogenation
   • Hydroformylation
   • Carbonylation
   • Olefin polymerization
   • Cyclic ester polymerization
   • Organocatalysis
   • Olefin metathesis
   • Cross coupling
   • Oxidation chemistry
4. Heterogeneous catalysis
   • Heterogeneous catalysts
   • Kinetics
   • Gas/solid systems
   • Liquid/solid, liquid/liquid systems
   • Case studies
5. Topcs from Biocatalysis / Photocatalysis / Electrocatalysis

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