Educational guide 2017_18 Facultade de Química

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Chapter 1. Obtaining general data of a chemical compound.	Combustion Analysis: empirical formula. Qualitative analysis. Point and space symmetry Optical Properties.
Chapter 2. Electronic and photoelectronic spectroscopy.	Determination of the chromophore groups. Effect of conjugation. Study of the valence shell MOs.
Chapter 3. Structural determination of crystalline samples.	Applications and limitations of the difractometric techniques in structural determination. Three-dimensional determination of the molecular structure. Defects and disorders in crystalline solids.
Chapter 4. NMR Spectroscopy.	Monodimensional experiments of 1H and 13C Structural information from the chemical shift. Dynamic NMR: equilibria in solution. Two-dimensional experiments. Homo- and Heteronuclear Correlation spectroscopy.
Chapter 5. Vibrational Spectroscopy.	Determination of the presence of characteristic functional groups. Other applications in structural determination.
Chapter 6. Mass Spectrometry.	Determination of the molecular mass. Ionisation techniques. Detection methods. Fragmentation reactions. Isotopic patterns. Interpretation of the mass spectra.