Course Level:
First Year
Academic Year:
2023/2024
Textbook: Chemistry 111, 121, and 141: Integrated Resource Package (ChIRP) (sold by the department)
Outline
- Chemical Bonding and Lewis Structures
- Chemical bonding (covalent, polar covalent, ionic)
- Lewis structures of polyatomic species
- Resonance structures
- Formal charges, oxidation states, and partial charges
- Shapes of Molecules and Ions
- Molecular shape and VSEPR
- Molecular polarity
- Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics
- Wave-like properties of matter
- Wave and probability concepts
- When to treat an electron as a wave
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Quantum mechanics basics
- One dimensional particle-in-a-box
- Electronic Structure of Atoms and Ions
- One-electron species
- Graphical representations of orbitals (s, p, d)
- Energies of one-electron species
- Interactions between Light and Matter
- The nature of light
- Photoelectric effect
- Absorption/emission transitions between quantum states
- Atomic spectroscopy
- Multi-electron Species and Periodic Properties
- Multi-electron atoms and ions
- Magnetic properties
- Periodic properties
- Introduction to Molecular Orbital Theory and Valence Bond Theory
- Why Molecular Orbital Theory and Valence Bond Theory are needed
- Molecular orbital theory – an introduction with H2
- Molecular orbitals of second row homonuclear diatomic species
- Valence Bond Theory
- Hybridization and complex chemical systems
- Conjugation and Colour
- Introduction of conjugated molecules
- Chemical origins of colour
- Line-bond drawings
- Properties of molecules and macromolecules
- Physical properties
- Types of solids
- Polymer characteristics
- Sustainability: environmental issues related to polymers
- Polymers in biological systems
- Chemistry and Society: Chemicals in our World
- Natural vs. synthetic chemicals
- Pharmaceutical drug development
- Chemistry and sustainability
- What do chemists do?