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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Organic Pollutants

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0301/02
Abbreviation Ok
Course title Organic Pollutants
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to organic chemistry. Binding properties of carbon. Fundamentals of stereochemistry. Structure of organic compounds.
2. System and nomenclature of organic chemistry (IUPAC). Clasification of organic compounds. Relationship between structure and properties of substances. Intermolecular interactions. Reactions of organic compounds.
3. Organic pollutants: classification, VOCs, sources, transport, distribution in the environment, effects on living organisms.
4. Alifatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses. Unsaturated hydrocarbons: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses.
5. Arenes (aromatic hydrocarbons): nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and use. Polycyclic aromatics (PAHs) and their toxicological risks, reactivity, properties, occurrence.
6. Hydrocarbon derivates: halogenderivates, hydroxyderivates, ethers, sulfur
compounds. Nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses.
7. Nitroderivates: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses. Heterocyclic compounds. Five-and six-member heterocycles: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses.
8. Carbonyl compounds: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, occurrence and uses.
9. Organometallic compound: nomenclature, reactivity, toxicology, applications.
10. Carboxyl acids: nomenclature, properties, reactivity, use.
11. Substitution derivates of acids: halogen acids, hydroxy acids, reactivity, properties, use. Functional derivatives of acids: acyl halide, anhydrides, esters, amides, nitriles, reactivity, properties, toxicology, use. Derivatives of carbonic acid (phosgene, urea and sulfur analogues).
12. Technically important organic substances I. Polymers. Properties and structure of
macromolecular substances. The most important groups of technical polymers.
13. Technically important organic substances II. Pesticides, surfactants, organic
dyes. Properties, reactivity, use.
14. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs). General properties, toxic effects, the global significance of POPs in the environment, distribution and classification, fate and transport in the environment. International conventions. POPs inventory.

Literature

BEREKUTE A. K. Handbook of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. 2017, 248. ISBN 978-3330035256 .
McMURRY, J. Organic chemistry. 8e. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, c2012. ISBN 0840054440 . Available from: http://m5zn.com/newuploads/2015/04/21/pdf/994f226e20e27cf.pdf.
WILLIAM H. B. and T. POON. Introduction to organic chemistry. Fifth edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2014. ISBN 9781118152188 .
MÖLLER D.: Chemistry for Environmental Scientists. De Gruyter, 2015, 380 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-041001-3 .

Advised literature

ZENG Eddy Y. (Edit.). Microplastic Pollutants. Elsevier 2018, ISBN 9780128137475 .
SOLOMONS, T. W. G., C. B. FRYHLE and S. A. SNYDER. Organic chemistry. 12e. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. ISBN 978-1-118-87576-6 . Available from: https://archive.org/details/SolomonOrganicChem.
OUELLETTE, R. J. a N. J. RAWN. Organic chemistry. Boston: Elsevier, 2014. ISBN 9780128007808 .
ISAAC-GARCÍA, J., J. A. DOBADO JIMÉNEZ, F. G. CALVO-FLORES and H. MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍA. Experimental organic chemistry: laboratory manual. Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2016. ISBN 9780128038932 .