ID:
500172
Duration (hours):
72
CFU:
9
SSD:
CHIMICA GENERALE E INORGANICA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to illustrate the general principles of chemistry, through examples that refer to inorganic chemistry. During the course the student will acquire the basic chemical language and will become familiar with the symbols and graphic conventions designed to represent formulas, structures and processes in chemistry. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to interpret the properties of the elements and compounds, on the basis, respectively, of the electronic configuration and of the nature of the bond and the structural formula. The student will also be able to classify the reactions as acid-base equilibria or redox equilibria, to predict their products and to balance their masses. He/she will also be able to handle the basic concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics that allow one to predict and understand the course of a reaction, and the basic concepts of coordination chemistry, which allow one to predict the interactions between metal cations and ligands in aqueous solution. At the end of the course the student will also have to know the properties of the most important inorganic elements and of their compounds, with greater regard to those relating to the groups of the p block (groups 13-18 in the Periodic Table) and in particular to the elements Hydrogen, Boron, Aluminum, Carbon, Silicon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Oxygen, Sulfur, Fluorine, Chlorine, Xenon and Krypton
Course Prerequisites
Understanding the topics of this course requires the simple basic knowledge in mathematics, physics and chemistry imparted by high school, such as states of matter, the difference between chemical and physical properties, the concept of atoms and molecules, fundamental subatomic particles (proton, electron, neutron), the use of logarithms and exponentials, the concept of vector and scalar quantities, the basic use of integrals
Teaching Methods
The course includes 72 hours of lectures with power point projections of the basic lines of each lesson and with explanatory graphics, plus extensive and constant use of the blackboard for further information, examples, exercises. A few hours of additional seminars dedicated to calculation exercises carried out by the teacher may be added in order to better prepare for the written intermediate tests and for the final exam. The power point lesson files will be distributed to the students before each lesson
Assessment Methods
The exam consists of a written test and an oral test. Two written tests are held during the course. Students who have passed the three tests with an average above 18/30 can directly access the oral exam. The grade obtained in the ongoing tests can be freely refused, if the student is not satisfied, with the obligation, however, to take and pass a written test during the exam sessions of February, or June-July, or September. , before being able to access the oral exam. The final grade will be unique and will take into account both the one obtained in the written and the one obtained in the oral.
After the written tests, the tests are shown to students with the corrections made by the teacher. Furthermore, after the written tests, the teacher makes public his own solutions of the tests. Finally, before the written tests, some of the written tests of the previous years are distributed to the students, to allow a focused preparation on the type and difficulty of the tests
After the written tests, the tests are shown to students with the corrections made by the teacher. Furthermore, after the written tests, the teacher makes public his own solutions of the tests. Finally, before the written tests, some of the written tests of the previous years are distributed to the students, to allow a focused preparation on the type and difficulty of the tests
Texts
The recommended text are either
- Whitten, Savis, Peck, Stanley, CHIMICA (10a edizione italiana) Piccin 2015
or
-Atkins, Jones, Laverman, Patterson, Young, PRINCIPI DI CHIMICA (5a edizione italiana), Zanichelli 2025
However, it has to be stressed that older or more recent editions of the same texts are perfectly suitable. In addition, other General and Inorganic Chemistry texts at university level may also be suitable (in case, it is advisable to consult with the teacher during the first lessons). The student will be provided with power point lessons projected in the classroom, which constitute a detailed and illustrated program of the course, this allowing to have the best guidelines of the topics to be studied
- Whitten, Savis, Peck, Stanley, CHIMICA (10a edizione italiana) Piccin 2015
or
-Atkins, Jones, Laverman, Patterson, Young, PRINCIPI DI CHIMICA (5a edizione italiana), Zanichelli 2025
However, it has to be stressed that older or more recent editions of the same texts are perfectly suitable. In addition, other General and Inorganic Chemistry texts at university level may also be suitable (in case, it is advisable to consult with the teacher during the first lessons). The student will be provided with power point lessons projected in the classroom, which constitute a detailed and illustrated program of the course, this allowing to have the best guidelines of the topics to be studied
Contents
Atomic Structure. Hydrogen Atom. Energy levels and atomic orbitals. Polyelectronic atoms. The Periodic Table of the elements.atomic mass unit and atomic weight. The mole. Interactions among atoms. Ionic compounds and the ionic bond. Ionic lattices, lattice enthalpy. The covalent bond. Lewis notation. Structural formula. Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR). The covalent bond as superimposition of atomic orbitals. σ and π bonds. Hybrid orbitals. An introduction to the molecular orbital theory. Intermolecular interactions and aggregation states. Rate of reaction, rate laws. Activation energy, catalysis. Chemical equilibrium, the equilibrium constant. Ionic equilibria in aqueous solutions. Brønsted acids and bases. Lewis acids and bases. Coordination compounds. The crystal field theory. Multidentate ligands. π-bond in coordination compounds. Solubility of inorganic salts and precipitation reactions. Redox equilibria. Electric cells and potential. The electrochemical series. Nernst equation. Energy exchanges in an equilibrium.
Properties and reactivity of p block elements (groups 13-18) and of their compounds
Properties and reactivity of p block elements (groups 13-18) and of their compounds
Course Language
Italian
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