The final course in a three-quarter series examining the principles of General Chemistry with the primary emphasis on inorganic chemistry. Topics include acid-base chemistry, chemical equilibria, solubility, nuclear reactions, and electrochemistry. An introduction to organic chemistry and an introduction to inorganic qualitative analysis are included. A portion of the laboratory component is devoted to inorganic qualitative analysis..
Prerequisites
Successful completion of CHEM& 162 or instructor permission.
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
- Predict the effect of disturbances to an acid-base equilibrium.
- Produce a titration curve for a specific weak acid, weak base system.
- Determine the solubility product constant (Ksp) from experimental data.
- Predict concentrations based on Ksp.
- Apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics to chemical systems.
- Calculate Gibb’s Free Energies and predict spontaneity.
- Balance Redox reactions in acidic and basic environments.
- Predict cell voltages from tables of standard potentials.
- Identify the principle forms of radioactive emission.
- Calculate half-life from decay rates.
- Perform Mass – Energy calculations.
- Describe bonding in metals.
- Predict the chemistry and bonding patterns of main group elements.
- Recognize the primary types of organic compounds and assign systematic names to simple organic compounds.
- Identify organic acids, aldehydes, ketones, ethers, and amines.
- Acid ionization equilibria
Acid – Base properties of salts
Ion effects
Buffers - Solubility product constant
Precipitation calculations
Complex ion formation and solubility - Thermodynamics
Enthalpy and Entropy
Free Energy - Electrochemistry
Balance Oxidation – Reduction reactions in acid and base solution
Voltaic cells
Electrolysis - Chemistry of the main group elements
Metallic bonding
Main group chemistry by family - Nuclear chemistry
Bombardment reactions
Radioactive decay
Rates and half lives - Organic chemistry
Nomenclature of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
Typical reactions
Functional groups
Evaluation will be accomplished by a combination of graded homework, examination, quizzes and laboratory performance and write up.
The final grade will be based on a percentage of the total points possible:
A typical breakdown of the points is: Three unit exams comprise approximately 40% of the total score, the final exam approximately 20%, laboratories approximately 24%, quizzes and homework provide the balance of the points.
The American Chemical Society General Chemistry Exam may serve as a final in this class.
PO5 should be assessed: Students will be able to solve problems by gathering, interpreting, combining and/or applying information from multiple sources.