C3480 Inorganic Chemistry - laboratory course

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/0/4. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Josef Novosad, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Alena Pálková (seminar tutor)
Světlana Filípková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Josef Novosad, CSc.
Department of Chemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable of Seminar Groups
C3480/01: Fri 12:00–15:50 C10/312, J. Novosad
C3480/02: Fri 16:00–19:50 C10/312, J. Novosad
Prerequisites
NOW ( C7777 Handling chemicals )
Basic knowledge of general and inorganic chemistry. Writing chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, and calculations of solution concentration and mixing will be used extensively.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
Basic laboratory course in inorganic preparative chemistry. It aims to introduce students to syntheses, properties and structures of simple inorganic compounds such as oxides, halides and other salts, acids and their functional derivatives, and complexes.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction, safety rules, laboratory notebook, worked example of experiment calculations. Potassium hydrogen sulfate, alkalimetric titration.

    2. Iron(II) sulfate. Preparative route selection criteria.

    3. Copper(II) sulfate, Mohr's salt. Synthetic routes to oxides (1-5).

    4. Orthoboric acid. Synthetic routes to oxides (6-10).

    5. Chromium(III) oxide. Potassium chomate. Purity assessment of Mohr's salt. Synthetic routes to hydroxides.

    6. Hexaaquacobalt(II)chloride. Purity assessment of Potassium chomate - Iodometric titration. Synthetic routes to acids.

    7. Hexaaminecobalt(III) chloride. Pentaammine-chlorocobalt(III) chloride. Potassium tetraperoxochromate(V). Synthetic routes to salts.

    8. Metal acetylacetonate complexes. Thin-layer chromatography. Synthetic routes to coordination compounds.

    10. Potassium chlorate.

    11. Boric oxide, trimethylborate. 12. Potassium disulfate, potassium methylsulfate.

    13. Bismuth(III) oxide. Bismut. Thermite reaction.

Literature
    recommended literature
  • Laboratorní technika a cvičení z anorganické chemie. 7. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 114 s. ISBN 8021010126. info
Teaching methods
Laboratory course covering preparations of selected inorganic compounds and keeping of the lab notebook.
Assessment methods
Graded credits are awarded if: (1) synthesized products are submitted in reasonable yields and purity; (2) laboratory reports to all exercises are submitted and approved by the teacher; (3) student can show an understanding of each completed laboratory exercise and related principles and calculations (stoichiometry, concentrations, titrations) and knowledge of properties of prepared compounds. (4) Passed final written test and oral exam from experiment principles, properties of prepared compounds, calculations etc.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
General note: Vyučují učitelé Ústavu chemie.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2000, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011 - acreditation.
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