KE806: Advanced Synthetic Chemistry (5 ECTS)

STADS: 10012301

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.
The course is offered in the second half of the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: snv@sdu.dk

Timetable
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Comment:
Max antal deltagere 18.

Prerequisites:
A Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Nanobioscience, Chemical Engineering or Pharmacy.

Academic preconditions:
Students taking the course are expected to:

• Have solid knowledge of general chemistry, basic spectroscopy and systematic organic chemistry
• Be able to use basic principles of physical chemistry

Course introduction
The aim of the course is to enable the student to relate theoretical chemical knowledge and analytical methods in chemistry to specific and individual synthetic projects. The primary goal is to introduce students to advanced synthetic methods and to acquire more routine in the application of already known synthetic methods. Furthermore, the students are expected to learn how to write a laboratory journal and to comply with general and specific safety regulations for work in chemical laboratories and to evaluate safety risks for individual synthetic projects, including both the chemicals used as well as necessary equipment. At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to work with different synthetic methods, to purify synthetic intermediates and synthetic products and to characterize them using the most important characterization methods (NMR, MS) in synthetic chemistry.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired in the bachelor courses in chemistry and gives practical knowledge and skills in modern synthesis, including purification and characterization of compounds as important tool for experimental projects as part of the master degree.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

• Provide knowledge on modern synthetic methods
• Provide skills in multi-step synthesis including purification of compounds and intermediates
• Provide skills in characterizing compounds by modern analytical methods such as NMR and MS
• Provide knowledge on using laboratory journals and safety evaluations of multi-step synthetic projects.

Expected learning outcome
The learning objective of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:

• Discuss and apply modern synthetic methods
• Discuss and apply modern purification methods
• Discuss and apply modern analytical characterization methods in synthetic projects
• Use laboratory journals and make safety evaluations for multi-step synthetic projects

Subject overview


Literature

• Litteratur følger med den specifikke syntese (omfatter øvelsesvejledning på blackboard og originalartikler)..

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam

1. Participation in lab. exercises is a prerequisite for participation in exam a). Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher.

Assessment and marking:

1. Written report on lab. work. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher. (5 ECTS).

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 2 hours
Skills training phase: 46 hours, hereof:
 - Laboratory exercises: 46 hours

Educational activities

• Praktictal experiments and application of modern synthetic methods to multi-step synthetic projects
• Literature search (Scifinder/Reaxys) and safety evaluation of synthetic projects
• Documentation of synthetic projects

Educational form

Language
This course is taught in English.

Remarks
The course has limited entry. The following 4 criterias are taken into consideration when seats are assigned.

1. Students with the most ECTS from their master
2. Students who are accepted conditionally on the master 
3. Students who follows master courses concurrent with their bachelor programme
4. Bachelor students

If the score is even lots are drawn.

The academic enviroments at The faculty of science manages the prioritisation and at waiting list is established and will then be made aware from the faculty. The waiting list will not be transferred to the following year.

In order to keep the assigned seat you need to attend the first course day or notify the teacher, otherwise the seat is given to the next student from the waiting list.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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