User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2

	Theoretical	Physical	Inorganic	Organic	Environmental	Other
1	FRM	PWM	CJA	TCG	RPE	Labs
2	NLA	AJOE	NCN	PJW	RDP	Techniques
3	AJM	DMS	DFW	TJS	DES
4		JPR	CAR	KIBM
5		DES	FCM	CLW
6		PB	SRH	APD
7		DJF	IM	CPB
8		JSvD		DNW

Organic

See User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1#Organic for Level 1 material for general questions

Order	Course	Lecturer	Code
1	Monofunctional Carbonyl Compounds and Carbanion Chemistry	Professor Tim Gallagher	TCG
2	Difunctional Carbonyl Compounds	Dr Paul Wyatt	PJW
3	Aromatic Compounds and Amines	Professor Tom Simpson FRS	TJS
4	Heterocyclic Compounds	Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn	KIBM
5	Organic Synthesis	Professor Chris Willis	CLW
6	Stereochemistry and Conformation	Professor Anthony Davis	APD
7	Rearrangements involving Carbocationic or Polar Intermediates	Dr Craig Butts	CPB
8	Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins: Chemistry, Structure and Function	Professor Dek Wolfson	DNW
9	Organic Chemistry Problem Classes	various artists	OCPCs

Inorganic

See User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1#Inorganic for Level 1 material for general questions

Order	Course	Lecturer	Code
1	Introduction to NMR Spectroscopy	Dr Chris Adams	CJA
2	Chemistry of the Main Group Elements, Part 1	Professor Nick Norman	NCN
3	Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry	Dr Duncan Wass	DFW
4	Coordination Chemistry of the Transition Metals, Part 1	Dr Chris Russell	CAR
5	Solid State Chemistry	Dr Simon Hall	SRH
6	Coordination Chemistry of the Transition Metals, Part 2	Dr Fiona Meldrum	FCM
7	Chemistry of the Main Group Elements, Part 2: Rings, Chains and Macromolecules, Based on Main Group Elements	Professor Ian Manners (FRS as of 2011)	IM

Physical

See User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1#Physical for Level 1 material for general questions

Order	Course	Lecturer	Code
1	Chemical Energy II	Dr Paul May	PWM
2	Introduction to Photochemistry	Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing	AJOE
3	Chemical Interactions	Dr David Smith	DMS
4	Interfaces	Dr Jonathan Reid	JPR
5	Kinetics	Professor Dudley Shallcross	DES1
6	Equilibria	Dr Paul Bartlett	PB
7	Equilibrium Electrochemistry	Dr David Fermin	DJF
8	Macromolecules	Dr Jeroen van Duijneveldt	JSvD

Theoretical

Quantum mechanics, FRM

"Quantum Concepts", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/quantum mechanics

Molecular orbitals, NLA

"Understanding Structure and Reactivity, Part 1", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/molecular orbitals

Hückel, AJM

"Understanding Structure and Reactivity, Part 2", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/Hückel theory

Environmental

Geochemistry, RPE

"Origin and Fate of Organic Matter in the Geosphere", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/geochemistry

Marine chemistry, RDP

"Marine Chemistry", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/marine chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry, DES

"Chemistry of the Atmosphere", see User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/2/atmospheric chemistry

Techniques

"Techniques for Chemists"

• NMR spectroscopy
  • Proton NMR
  • Carbon-13 NMR
  • J-coupling
  • Correlation spectroscopy
  • Nuclear Overhauser effect?

• Scientific writing
• Chemometrics, principal components analysis
• Gas chromatography

• Molecular modelling
  • Taxol
  • Amphetamine and its similarity to serotonin
  • Methicillin
  • Acetone and keto-enol tautomerism
  • Chromium hexacarbonyl and its phosphorus trifluoride, trimethyl phosphite and trimethylphosphine derivatives

Labs

Experiment 1 - The benzoin reaction - preparation of benzoin: Benzoin condensation
Experiment 2 - The preparation of fenbufen: Fenbufen
Experiment 3 - The Wittig reaction: Wittig reaction, Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, Peterson olefination, Julia olefination, Tebbe olefination, Petasis reagent
Experiment 4 - Cycloaddition reactions and their mechanisms: Cycloaddition, Tetracyanoethylene
Experiment 5 - The Robinson annulation: Robinson annulation
Experiment 6 - Synthesis of 4,6-diphenyl[2,2']bipyridine: Hantzsch pyridine synthesis
Experiment 7 - The preparation and use of a Wilkinson's catalyst: Wilkinson's catalyst
Experiment 8 - Chromatography in action: Chromatography, Thin layer chromatography, Retardation factor (R_f value), gas chromatography,
Experiment 9 - An electrochemical glucose sensor: Glucose meter, Glucose oxidase, Nernst equation, Cyclic voltammetry, Ferrocene
Experiment 10 - IR spectroscopy of cigarette smoke: Rovibrational coupling
Experiment 11 - Absorption and fluorescence of dye molecules: Nile Blue
Experiment 12 - Determination of mean aggregation number of a micellar system: Micelle, Tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) chloride 9-methylanthracene, Fluorimetry
Experiment 13 - Kinetics of ionic reactions: absorbance, kinetic salt effect, ionic strength, iodine-persulfate reaction, persulfate ion
Experiment 14 - Polymer-surfactant interactions: Sodium dodecyl sulfate
Experiment 15 - The solution properties of polyelectrolytes: Polyelectrolyte
Experiment 16 - Absorption spectroscopy and the uptake of acetic acid at the gas-liquid surface
Experiment 17 - The Ni catalysed isomerisation of 1-heptene: Linear alpha olefin, Isomerisation, Shell higher olefin process, Olefin metathesis,
Experiment 18 - Silicone polymers: Siloxane, Silicone, Diphenylsilanediol
Experiment 19 - Monomeric and polymeric transition metal oxides: Polyoxometallate, WO₃, Na₂MoO₄, Na₂WO₄, [nBu₄N]₂[W₆O₁₉]
Experiment 20 - Metal carbonyl complexes: Metal carbonyl, PMDTA
Experiment 21 - The application of liquefied gases as non-aqueous media: Ammonia, Inorganic nonaqueous solvent, Solvated electron, Electride. Chapter 9 of Housecroft (p. 236) is all on non-aqueous media
Experiment 22 - Analysis of caffeine in soft drinks: Caffeine, Decaffeination, High performance liquid chromatography
Experiment 23 - Ferrocene: synthesis and reactivity: Ferrocene
Experiment 24 - Preparation of a luminescent Cu(I) complex
Experiment 25 - Modelling Real Reactions: Intramolecular Lactonisation: Iodolactonisation, Curtin-Hammett principle
Experiment 26 - Databases and Datamining: Crystallographic database, Cambridge Structural Database, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Data mining

Links

• User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/1 - Level 1 (first year)
• User:Benjah-bmm27/degree/3 - Level 3 (third year)