The course aims at providing additional expertise in enhancing previous background on various areas of Physical Chemistry, with particular reference to chemical kinetics and spectroscopy, and with attention to applications in biotechnology.
Course Prerequisites
Knowledge of general chemistry
Teaching Methods
Lectures will be supplemented by: (i) exercises based on numerical computations for chemical kinetics and laboratory experiments (ii) experiments on UVVIS spectroscopy.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination: the student will make a presentation of a selected argument among those discussed in the course.
Texts
The needed material will be provided by the teacher. The lecture notes are available. The reference textbook, limited to some chapters, is: P. Atkins, J. De Paula "Atkins' Physical Chemistry" VII Ed. Oxford University Press (2002).
Contents
Basic aspects of chemical kinetics. Complex kinetic mechanisms, steady state approximation, kinetics of enzyme catalysis, chain reactions, oscillating reactions. Computer simulation approach to complex reactions and fit of experimental data. Adsorption: basic ideas and models for the absorption isoterms. The fundaments of FT-IR, UV, Raman and absorption spectroscopies. All these tecniques will be afforded with specific reference to examples of interest in the biotechnology field. The Bases of thermal analysis. Experimental activity is foreseen.
Course Language
Italian
More information
With reference to the guidelines for teaching procedures for the current academic year, the students who certify to fulfill the conditions given in Annex A will benefit from the whole material provided to all other students with the addition of up to 2 hours per week for support by the lecturer, either in presence or online, to be arranged directly with the lecturer at least one week in advance.
