DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Geological Sciences
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year

CHIMICA GENERALE ED INORANICA ELEMENTI CHIMICA ORANICA

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• CHIMICA GENERALE ED INORGANICA
  
  To offer to the student, with suitable severity, the most important chemical principles balancing theoretical concepts and numeric applications to prepare a geologist able to understand all the subjects where the chemistry is the introductory course.
• ELEMENTI DI CHIMICA ORGANICA
  
  To offer to the student, with suitable severity, the most important chemical principles balancing theoretical concepts and numeric applications to prepare a geologist able to understand all the subjects where the chemistry is the introductory course.

Detailed Course Content

• CHIMICA GENERALE ED INORGANICA
  
  Introduction to atomic and molecular theory: atomic particles: protons, neutrons, electrons. Elements of nuclear structure: atomic number and mass number, isotopes, mass defect and atomic weight; radioactivity; molecular weight , the concept of a gram atom , gram ion and grammomolecola . Nature of light , Bohr atom and spectra of the hydrogen atom of hydrogen-like atoms; limits of the Bohr atom , particles and waves, the structure of the hydrogen atom , the orbital energies of the orbitals , the structure of the atoms at the electrons, filling and principles of the periodic table and periodic properties, chemical bonding, covalent bonding, ionic bonding, polar molecules, molecular orbital theory, homo-and heteropolar diatomic molecules, hybridization of orbitals and VSEPR theory for molecular geometries.The gaseous state: gas laws, the ideal gas equation of state, molar volume, density of gases, the law of diffusion of gases, real gases and their behavior, van der Waals equation for real gases, critical parameters of a gas.Work on the solid state: crystalline solids and metallic ion, compact structures, lattice covalent molecular solids and solids, glassy solid.The liquid state and solution: intermolecular forces, vapor pressure of the liquid and the boiling temperature, solvation of the solutes, concentration of solutions, Raoult's law, colligative properties of solutions, calculation cryoscopic lowering and raising ebullioscopic, osmosis and calculation of the osmotic pressure phase rule, diagrams to a component: water and carbon dioxide .Elements of thermodynamics and thermochemistry: state variables, the first law of thermodynamics , molar heat capacity , measurement of heat , enthalpy and Hess 's Law , II law of thermodynamics , entropy , Gibbs free energy and the law , the relationship between the free energy and the equilibrium constant , spontaneity of processes.Chemical equilibrium : dynamic equilibrium of a reaction , the equilibrium constant and its meaning, reaction quotient and pattern of reactions , equilibrium gas , the relationship between Kp and Kc influence of concentration , pressure and temperature on chemical equilibrium , law of Le Chatellier .Chemical kinetics : speed of a chemical reaction , order of reaction , reaction mechanisms, activation energy and Arrhenius equation , catalysis, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts .Electrochemical conductivity of aqueous solutions , batteries and standard potentials of half cells , use of standard potentials for the prediction of a redox reaction, Nernst equation, electrolysis, Faraday's laws .Inorganic elements of the sp : natural occurrence , preparation of the elements and their chemical properties , binary and ternary compounds . Notes on the chemistry of the transition metals ' d ' and ' f ' .

Textbook Information

• CHIMICA GENERALE ED INORGANICA
  
  
  Masterton & Hurley; Chimica Principi e reazioni, Piccin
  Kotz, Treishel, Weaver, Chimica, EDISES