Learning Results
The student should acquire knowledge about:
Major inorganic compounds. Structure and nomenclature.
Chemical bond.
Physical and chemical units to express aqueous solutions concentration. Dilution and dilution factor notions.
Corresponding analytical calculations.
Stoichiometric calculations. Calculations from chemical equations. Reaction yield notion.
Chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium constant Kc and Kp.
Acid-base equilibrium in aqueous solution. PH scale. Titrations, indicators of pH and buffer solutions.
The student must acquire skills on:
Identification of the major inorganic compounds on the most occurring forms. Perform analytical calculations.
The student must acquire competences to:
Develop the ability required to recognize different chemical structures.
Increase and develop the capacity to derive analytical calculations concerning the subject taught with a deftness
high level.
Program
Inorganic compounds (phosphates, sulfates, nitrates and nitrites, carbonates, oxygenated compounds).
Chemical Bonding (ionic bonding and covalent bonding, hybridization). Molecular geometry. Intermolecular forces.
Concentration of solutions (weight, volume and mass/volume percentages, molarity, molality, mole fraction,
normality, dilution factor).
Properties of dilute solutions.
Stoichiometric calculations. Calculations from chemical equations. Reaction yield notion.
Chemical equilibrium. Nature of chemical equilibrium. Equilibrium constants, Kp and Kc. Equilibrium constants interpretation. The ideal law of chemical equilibrium. The reaction quotient. Analytical calculations.
Acid-base equilibria. Theories. Strength of acids and bases. pH scale. pH indicators and changing colour moment.
Titrations. Theory of the pH calculations on several titrations. Buffer solutions. Buffer capacity and buffer effect.
Analytical calculations
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Alexéev V. Análise Quantitativa. 3ª ed. Lopes da Silva Editora, Porto, 1983.
CAREY, F.A., Organic Chemistry, 6nd ed, New york, McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Guernet M, Guernet E, Herrenknecht-Trottmann C. Équilibres en solution aqueuse. 1ª ed. Masson, Paris, 1996.
Skoog DA, West DM. Fundamentals of Analytical chemistry. 7ª ed. Saunders College Publishing, New York 1996.
Vogel RI. Quantitative Chemical Analysis. 15ª ed. Longman Scientific & Technical, New York,1989.