Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
Grao en Nanociencia e Nanotecnoloxía |
Subjects |
Kinetic and Catalysis |
Contents |
Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Kinetic and Catalysis | Code | 610G04026 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
Basic concepts of chemical kinetics | Rate of chemical reactions Integration of rate equations Experimental techniques for measuring reaction rates Methods for determining reaction orders Rate of complex reactions (reversible, consecutive, etc) Derivation of the rate equation from the reaction mechanism, and vice versa |
Kinetic Theories and their applications |
Collision theory for gas phase reactions Potential energy surfaces Transition state theory Elementary reactions in solution Diffusion controlled reactions. Photochemical reactions Reactions with solids |
Catalysis | Catalysis: definition and types Homogeneous catalysis Microheterogeneous catalysis |
Lab experiments | Laboratory experiments for the monitoring of chemical reactions with different experimental methods and the determination of rate equations |
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