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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Química |
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| Advanced Physical Chemistry |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Advanced Physical Chemistry | Code | 610G01020 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Ionic and molecular interactions | · Ionic interactions in the liquid phase: activity coefficient. Debye-Hucke's law. Ionic strength. · Molecular interactions. Dipole moment. Polarizability: equation of Clausius-Mossotti. Dipolar interactions. Hydrophobic interaction: self-aggregation and molecular conformation. ·Colloids: direct and reverse micelles, biological membranes. · Macromolecules |
| Transport phenomena | · Flux. Diffusion. Fick's first lay. Stokes-Einstein equation. · Thermal conductivity · Electric conductivity: the Deby-Huckel-Onsager theory. · Viscosity |
| Rate equation and reaction mechanism | · Integrated rate equation. Initial rates. Order of reaction. The method of flooding. Physical properties in kinetic studies. Experimental techniques. · Complex reaction schemes: parallel and concurrent reactions, reversible reactions, consecutive reactions. · The steady-state approximation. · Reaction mechanisms: elementary reactions. Deduction of reaction mechanisms. |
| Kinetic Theories and their applications |
· Collisions theory: the frequency factor · Transition state theory. The activated complex. Statistical thermodynamics approach. Activation parameters. Potential energy surfaces. · Reactions in the gas phase: Lindeman mechanism · Reactions is solution. Diffusion controlled reactions · Photochemical reactions |
| Catalysis | · Homogeneous, heterogeneous and microheterogeneous catalysis · General mechanism of catalysis: rate equations. · Homogeneous catalysis: nucleophilic catalysis, acid-base catalysis, ... · Linear free energy relations: the Swain-Scott equation, the Bronsted law, the Hammett correlation, the Taft equation. · Microheterogeneous catalysis; micellar catalysis, enzyme catalysis. · Heterogeneous catalysis: Langmuir isoterm. Rate equations. |
| Introduction to electrochemical kinetics | · Electrochemical reactions: special topics · Interface electrode-solution: the Gouy-Chapman model · Rate of charge transfer. The Butler-Volmer equation · Voltametry |
| Lab experiments | · Laboratory experiments relative to Transport phenomena, determination of rate equations and catalytic processes. |
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