This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.Provides a hands on approach to theory learned in the subject.
This subject is a continuation of the study of the fundamentals of chemistry commenced in Chemistry 1A. Topics include thermodynamics; kinetics; oxidation and reduction; an introduction to organic chemistry and organic functional group chemistry, with specific applications.
This subject expects students will have successfully completed the prerequisite subject CHM104.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences
CHM104 or CHM115
- Thermodynamics, enthalpy and entropy;
- Reduction-oxidation reactions and applications, reduction potentials, electrochemical cells, Nernst Equation;
- Kinetics, rate equations, reaction mechanism;
- Carbon chemistry and covalent bonding, sigma and pi bonds, hybridisation, resonance, polarity, types of isomerism;
- Hydrocarbons and their properties, mechanisms of halogenation, electrophilic addition, aromatic compounds and their substitution chemistry;
- Reaction chemistry and interconversion of alcohols, phenols, ethers, halides, aldehydes, ketones, amines, carboxylic acids and derivatives;
- Solutions.
This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.Provides a hands on approach to theory learned in the subject.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.