EST 1207 Chemistry II

Course Number: EST 1207 Course Title: Chemistry II Credit: 3 [3 hours per week for a period of 13 (3X13 hours) weeks] 1. Chemical Kinetics: Factors that affects reaction rates; reaction rates; concentration and rates; the change of concentration with time; temperature and rate; reaction mechanism; catalysis 2. Chemical Equilibrium: The concept of equilibrium; the equilibrium constant; understanding and working with equilibrium constant; heterogeneous equilibrium; calculating equilibrium constant; Application of equilibrium constant; Le-Chatelier Principle, Applications of principle of mobile equilibrium to reaction of industrial importance 3. Acids-Base Equilibrium: A brief review of Acids & bases; Brsted-Lowry Acids & bases; the autoionization of water; the pH scale; strong acids and bases; weak acids; weak bases; Acids & bases properties of salt solutions; Acids & bases behavior and chemical structures; Lewis Acids & bases 4. Additional aspects of aqueous Equilibrium: The common ion effect; buffered solutions; acidbase titrations; solubility Equilibrium; factors that affect solubility; precipitation and separation of ions 5. Chemical thermodynamics: Spontaneous process; entropy and the second law of thermodynamics; molecular interpretation of entropy; entropy changes in chemical reactions; Gibbs free energy; free energy and temperature; free energy and the equilibrium constant 6. Electrochemistry: Oxidation states and oxidation reduction reactions; voltaic cells; cell potential under standard conditions; free energy and redox reactions; cell potential under nonstandard conditions; batteries and fuel cells; corrosion; electrolysis 7. Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactivity, Patterns of Nuclear Stability, Nuclear Transmutations, Rates of Radioactive Decay, Detection of Radioactivity, Energy Changes in Nuclear Reactions, Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Fusion, Isotopes, Isobar, Isomers, Methods of Separation of Isotopes, Applications of Radioisotopes, Biological Effects of Radiation. 8. Organic Chemistry: General characteristics of organic molecules; introduction of hydrocarbons; alkenes, alkynes and aromatic hydrocarbons; organic functional groups; chirality in organic chemistry

Books Recommendation
Brown, Lemay, Bursten, Murphy & Woodward, (2012) Chemistry: the central science, 12th edition, Prentice Hall, USA.