Advanced topics in Physical & Inorganic Chemistry will be covered, including some aspects of currently active research in the discipline. This will be broken down into three components; (i) Aspects of photochemistry will be developed including light absorption and excited states, singlet and triplet states, lifetimes, shapes, dipole moments. Photophysical and photochemical pathways, fluorescence and phosphorescence, lifetime measurements and quenching will be related to the Jablonski diagram. (ii) Aspects of theory and the application of rotational, infrared and RAMAN spectroscopy will be developed. (iii) Aspects of Inorganic Chemistry explored at level 3 will be developed to a higher level; transition metal carbonyl compounds, their bonding and vibrational spectra and reactions of the carbonyl moiety, quantification of the relative rates of substitution reactions of transition metals complexes, review of NMR spectroscopy including expansion to more exotic nuclei pertinent to Inorganic chemistry, metallic bonding, common properties of both main group and transition metals in the zero oxidation state as well as differences between these two groups of metallic elements, noble gases will be included thereby completing aspects of the chemistry of the remainder of the periodic t
The graduate attributes relevant to this module are;
- Academic: Critical thinker, analytical, inquiring, knowledgeable, literate, problem solver, autonomous.
- Personal: Effective communicator, influential, motivated, team-worker.
- Professional: collaborative.
able (outside the Lanthanide / Actinide Series).
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