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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Chapters in Organic Chemistry

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 617-0955/02
Abbreviation KOCH
Course title Chapters in Organic Chemistry
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Kamil Wichterle, DrSc.

Subject syllabus

1. The theory of the chemical bond. Intermolecular interactions. Binding properties of carbon. Allotropie and forms of carbon.
2. Stereochemistry of organic molecules. The molecular symmetry. Polymerie and isomerism. Structure versus properties of organic compounds.
3. Thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical processes. The theory of the activated complex. Reaction mechanisms and methods of their study. Catalysis. Photochemical reactions.
4. Pyrolysis of organic matter (chemism, industrial use of pyrolysis. Coal substance and its pyrolysis processes. Present views on the structure of coal. Physico-chemical properties of coal. Theory coking process.
5. Important groups of organic compounds. Overview chemistry of hydrocarbons and their oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and halogenated derivatives (selection of those items with an emphasis on substance important for the specific PhD work).
6. Technically a significant group of organic substances (manufacture, use, ecological and toxicological characteristics. Petrochemical production. Importance of organic compounds in metallurgical production and associated ecology.
7. Macromolecular substance (division structure, properties versus structure, the basic the reaction and the formation of polymeric substances overview technically most significant polymers).

Literature

[1]T.W.G. Solomons, C.B.Fryhle: Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons,Inc. 2003

Advised literature

[1] J. McMurry: Organic Chemistry, Thomson Brooks/Cole Belmont 2004
[2] M.B.Hocking: Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollutation Control, Elsevier Inc., 3rd Ed., 2005
[3] W.H. Brown: Organic Chemistry (Saunders College Publishing, 1995)
[4] W.H. Brown: Organic Polymer Chemistry: (Saunders College Publishing, 1995)
[5] R.O. Ebewele . Polymer Science and Technology. CRC Press 2000
[6]H.Marsh, E. A. Heintz,F. Rodríguez-Reinoso(Eds.):Science of Carbon Materials. Universidad de Alicante. 2000
[7] D. Wöhrle, M. Tausch, W.D. Stohrer: Photochemie: Konzepte, Methoden, Experimente. Wiley, 1998.