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Chemistry Booklet # 2: Unit: Pharmaceutical Calculations and Considerations
Chemistry Booklet # 2: Unit: Pharmaceutical Calculations and Considerations
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Material(content):
- Names and formulas of ionic compounds.
- Names and formulas of covalent compounds.
- Understand what is meant by one mole of a substance.
- Determine the number of particles and the amount of substance in moles.
- Understand what is meant by molar mass.
- Calculate the mass of one mole of a substance.
- Calculate the number of moles in a specified mass of a substance.
- Work out the number of particles in a specified mass and a mass of a molecule.
- Apply simple stoichiometric calculations on chemical equations.
- Solve problems involving limiting and excess reactants in chemical reactions.
- Calculate the theoretical and percentage yield in a reaction.
- Calculate atom economy in a reaction.
- Understand what is meant by empirical and molecular formulas.
- Calculate empirical and molecular formulas.
- Define the term solution.
- Discuss components of solutions.
- State examples on solute /solvent combinations for solutions.
- List types of solutions (Acidic, alkaline and salty solutions).
- Discuss the meaning of acidic solution.
- Define the term acid.
- State names and formulas of common acids such as: hydrochloric, hydrofluoric,
hydrobromic, hydroiodic, nitric, nitrous, perchloric, sulfuric, sulfurous, carbonic,
phosphoric, methanoic and ethanoic acid.
- Classify the above mentioned acids as strong and weak acids. Also discuss the
difference between strong and weak acids.
- Write ionization equations of common strong and weak acids.
- Classify acids as monoprotic, diprotic, or polyprotic.
- Discuss briefly the properties of acids.
- Discuss the meaning of alkaline solution.
- Define the term alkali.
- Identify common strong and weak alkalis. Also discuss the difference between strong
and weak alkalis.
- Write ionization equations of common strong and weak alkalis.
- Discuss briefly the properties of alkalis.
- Differentiate between bases and alkalis.
- Discuss the meaning of salty solution.
- Explain what a salt is.
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- Describe rules of solubility of salts.
- Write ionization equations of salts.
- Give the general rules for reactions of acids with metal, bases, alkalis and carbonates.
State the type of each reaction.
- Write word, balanced molecular and ionic equations including state symbols for
different reactions of acids with metal, bases, alkalis and carbonates.
- Distinguish between strong and weak acids (or alkalis) experimentally.
- Discuss the importance of pH scale.
- Explain what is meant by the term concentration.
- Solve problems involving solutions.
- Apply stoichiometric calculations on equations with solutions.
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Names and Formulas of Ionic Compounds:
Ionic Compounds are made up from positive ions bonded to negative ions.
Positive ions:
Positive ions of transition metals have more than one charge therefore the positive
charge is indicated by Roman numeral in parentheses following the name of the metal.
Positive ions formed from non-metallic atoms bonded together with a positive overall
charge.
Negative ions:
a) Monatomic negative ions:
The names of monatomic negative ions end with the suffix –ide.
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N3- Nitride ion
P3- Phosphide ion
Negative ions formed from atoms bonded together with a negative overall charge.
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Naming and writing chemical formulas of ionic compounds.
ATL skills: Thinking; Transfer: Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to
create products or solutions.
Q1) Write the correct chemical formula for the following compounds:
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Names and Formulas of Covalent Compounds:
How to name a covalent compound?
For example:
P4O10: Tetraphosphorus decoxide.
NCl3: Nitrogen trichloride.
Exercise:
ATL skills: Thinking; Transfer: Combine knowledge, understanding and skills to
create products or solutions.
Q1) Write the name of the following compounds:
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Q2) Write the correct chemical formula for the following compounds:
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Questions on Chemical calculations:
All questions and exercises are designed to develop the following approaches to learning skills
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Q2) Analytical chemists can detect amounts of amino acids as small as 3.00×10-21mol of
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Q6) The equation below represents the reaction between zinc oxide and diluted sulfuric acid:
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c. What is the maximum mass of zinc sulfate which could be formed from 4.05g
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d. The formula of zinc sulfate crystals is ZnSO4.x H2O.
A maximum mass of 14.35g of zinc sulfate crystals can be obtained from 4.05g of zinc
oxide. How much of the mass of the crystals is due to the water of crystallization?
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i. State two physical properties for each zinc oxide and dilute sulfuric acid.
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Q8) A strip of iron metal weighing 2.00 g is placed in an aqueous solution containing 10.00 g
of silver nitrate. The reaction that occurs is:
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Q9) 4.0g of magnesium metal reacted with oxygen .Calculate the mass of magnesium oxide
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Q10) The relative molecular mass of aluminium chloride is 267 and its composition by mass is
20.3% AI and 79.7% chlorine. Determine is the empirical and molecular formulas of
aluminium chloride.
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Q11) When 5.00 g of crystals of hydrated tin (II) chloride, SnCl 2.xH2O, are heated, 4.20 g of
anhydrous tin (II) chloride are formed. Determine the value of x in SnCl 2.xH2O.
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Q12) One of the most deadly poisons , strychnine , has a molecular mass of 334g.mol-1 and
the composition 75.42 C , 6.63 H , 8.38 N, the rest is oxygen. Calculate the empirical
and molecular formulas of strychnine.
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Q13) An organic compound X, contains only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. When 1.46g of
compound X burns in excess oxygen; 2.79 g of carbon dioxide and 1.71g of water are formed.
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Q14) Hydrogen gas is passed over the heated copper oxide until all the copper oxide is
converted to copper .The experimental set-up shown in the diagram below can be used to
determine the empirical formula of copper oxide.
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The following experimental results were obtained.
Calculate the empirical formula of the copper oxide and write an equation for the reaction.
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Q15) In an experiment to find the value of x in the compound MgBr2.xH2O, 7.30 g of the
compound on heating to constant mass gave 4.60 g of the anhydrous salt MgBr 2. Find the
value of x.
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Q16) An oxide of phosphorus contains 56.4 % phosphorus and 43.6 % oxygen. Its relative
molecular mass is 220. Find both the empirical and the molecular formula of the oxide .
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Q18) In the manufacture of titanium, what mass of titanium can theoretically be formed
when 0.5 kg of titanium chloride reacts with 0.1 kg of magnesium?
TiCl4 + Mg Ti + MgCl2
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a) Phosphoric acid
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Q20) Write word, symbolic, ionic and net ionic equations for the following reactions. State
the type of reaction.
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Q21) What is the concentration of copper II sulfate solution containing 42.5 g of the salt
(CuSO4.5H2O) in 2 liters?
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Q22) 25.0 cm3 of arsenic acid, H3AsO4, required 37.5 cm3 of 0.100 mol.dm-3 sodium hydroxide
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Q23) 25.0 cm3 of 0.100 mol.dm-3 copper (II) nitrate solution is added to 15.0 cm3 of 0.500
mol.dm-3 potassium iodide. The ionic equation for the reaction that occurs is:
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Q24) 13.8 g of a solid monoprotic acid was dissolved in water and made up to 250.0 cm3.
25.0 cm3 portions of this were titrated against 0.250 mol.dm-3 sodium hydroxide, requiring
23.5 cm3. Calculate the Mr of the acid.
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