Program Overview
Program Overview
The University of Copenhagen offers a Master's program in Chemistry, with a course titled "Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry" (NKEK15004U). This program is designed for students pursuing a Master's degree in Chemistry or Chemistry with a minor subject.
Program Details
Content
The course covers descriptive inorganic chemistry, encompassing the entire periodic table. It applies models for electronic structure, molecular structure, and reactivity of coordination compounds to concrete chemical systems.
Learning Outcomes
- Competences:
- Communication of descriptive inorganic chemistry and important models applied to inorganic chemistry in writing and orally.
- The ability to read, analyze, and judge forefront literature in inorganic and coordination chemistry.
- Knowledge:
- In-depth knowledge of the chemistry of main group and transition elements and a general knowledge about the chemistry of the f-block elements.
- Operational knowledge of important models applied in descriptive inorganic chemistry.
- Skills:
- Account for the natural occurrence of the elements.
- Account for the main technical applications of the elements.
- Describe and rationalize the most important periodic variations in the chemical and physical properties of the elements and their compounds.
- Apply the most common models applied to descriptive inorganic chemistry.
- Account for the interplay between molecular and electronic structure for inorganic compounds.
- Account for important mechanistic aspects of inorganic reactivity.
- Account for the most important binary compounds for all elements.
- Account for the most important coordination compounds of the d-elements.
- Account for the chemistry of Lanthanoids and Actinoids at a general level.
Literature
A major inorganic textbook is required, with recommended texts including:
- Housecroft & Sharpe, "Inorganic Chemistry"
- Greenwood & Earnshaw, "Chemistry of the Elements"
- Cotton & Wilkinson, "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry"
- Hollemann & Wiberg, "Lehrbuch der Anorganische Chemie"
Recommended Academic Qualifications
Knowledge of inorganic chemistry at an intermediate level, corresponding to the bachelor course "Advanced Inorganic Chemistry," is recommended. Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree are also recommended.
Teaching and Learning Methods
The course includes lectures, group discussions, written essay assignments, and reading of current literature.
Workload
- Category: Lectures, Preparation, Project work, Exam
- Hours: 75 (Lectures), 228.5 (Preparation), 104 (Project work), 4.5 (Exam)
- Total: 412.0 hours
Exam
- Credit: 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment: On-site written exam (4 hours/1 week) and oral examination (40 minutes, no preparation time)
- Type of assessment details: The exam entails both a written and an oral exam, weighted equally. For the written exam, the student can choose either a 4-hour closed book exam or a 1-week essay.
- Aid: Only certain aids are allowed (see description below).
- Written on-site exam: All aids allowed except Generative AI and internet access.
- Written assignment: All aids allowed.
- Oral exam: No aids allowed.
- Marking scale: 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form: No external censorship, several internal examiners.
- Re-exam: Same as the ordinary exam.
Criteria for Exam Assessment
- Extent of knowledge of course topics
- Clarity in communication of knowledge
- Ability to apply knowledge to new data
Course Information
- Language: English
- Course code: NKEK15004U
- Credit: 15 ECTS
- Level: Full Degree Master
- Duration: 2 blocks
- Placement: Block 3 and Block 4
- Schedule: A
- Course capacity: No limitation, unless registering in the late-registration period or as a credit or single subject student.
- Study board: Study Board of Physics, Chemistry and Nanoscience
- Contracting department: Department of Chemistry
- Contracting faculty: Faculty of Science
- Course Coordinators: Jesper Bendix
This program is also available as continuing and professional education.