MS1014: Materials Chemistry 2

Academic Units2
Semester2
Pre-requisite(s)Nil
Co-requisite(s)Nil

Course Instructor

Dr Rui Goncalves

Course AIMS

The aim of the course is to provide you with fundamental understanding of basic organic chemistry, including polymer chemistry, surfactant chemistry and inorganic chemistry, including reactivity of metals and non -metals and their compounds including metal coordination complexes.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you (as a student) would be able to:

  1. Identify the nomenclature, bonding and structure of organic compounds;
  2. Predict physical properties of organic compounds from their molecular structures;
  3. Predict chemical reactions of organic compounds from their molecular structures and write chemical equations;
  4. Predict products of organic reactions based on reaction mechanisms covered in this course;
  5. Compare reactivities of metals based on their electronic structures and suggest appropriate methods for their production.
  6. Interpret properties of inorganic compounds based on periodic relationships among the elements.
  7. Identify structural features of transition metal complex ions and coordination compounds and predict their optical properties.

Course Content

It introduces basic chemistry concepts and theories that are important for understanding of structures, properties and applications of materials. The organic chemistry part covers basic chemistry concepts and theories about organic molecules as well as nomenclature, structures and reactions of common organic compounds. Structures and properties of polymers, are also introduced briefly. The inorganic chemistry part includes an introduction to basic chemistry concepts, atomic orbital theory, periodic relationships among the elements, and chemistry of metals, non-metallic inorganic compounds and coordination compounds.

Reading and References

  1. Robert C. Atkins, Francis A. Carey, Organic Chemistry: A Brief Course, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc, 2002.
  2. TWG Solomons and CB Fryhle, Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2008
  3. Chang, Raymond, Chemistry, 11th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2012 (Call no.: QD31.2.C456 2013).