Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2024-2025

Module CHEM2147: PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY 2 - SYNTHETIC

Department: Chemistry

CHEM2147: PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY 2 - SYNTHETIC

Type	Tied	Level	2	Credits	10	Availability	Available in 2024/2025	Module Cap		Location	Durham

Tied to	CFG0
Tied to	CFG1
Tied to	CFG2
Tied to	FGC0
Tied to	FGC1

Prerequisites

Core Chemistry 1 (CHEM1078) AND Practical Chemistry 1A (CHEM1087)

Corequisites

Core Chemistry 2 (CHEM2012) and either Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry (CHEM2087) or Chemistry of Elements (CHEM2077).

Excluded Combination of Modules

Practical Chemistry 2 Integrated (CHEM2138), Practical Chemistry 2 Inorganic (CHEM2107), Practical Chemistry 2 Physical (CHEM2127) OR Practical Chemistry 2 Organic (CHEM2117).

Aims

To expand and promote the knowledge and understanding of chemistry through practical work.

Content

o Practical work in intermediate chemistry.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

o Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the intermediate chemical principles illustrated by the practical work carried out.

Subject-specific Skills:

Perform and discuss more complex laboratory experiments.
Prepare, purify and identify a range of compounds.
Understand the importance of more complex experimental design and safety.
Perform more complex experimental manipulation.
Evaluate results in terms of the theory underlying the experiment.
Write coherent scientific reports on obtained data.
Demonstrate time management skills and an ability to plan experimental work.
Interpret spectroscopic data (e.g., NMR, IR, Mass spectrometry).

Key Skills:

Problem solving.
Verbal and written communication.
Numerical skills.
Group working.
Information retrieval.
Scientific writing.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Laboratory classes teach students techniques in various aspects of chemistry.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Practicals (in-lab)	19	19 sessions Terms 1 and 2	3 hours	57	■
Dry lab skills sessions (out-of- lab)	3	3 sessions Terms 1 and 2	3 hours	9	■
Induction including health and safety briefing	1	At start of Term 1	1 hour	1	■
Preparation, reading and completion of post-lab activities				33
Total				100

Summative Assessment

Component: Practical Work		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Results of laboratory work		100%

Formative Assessment:

Formative assessment occurs continuously by means of feedback for pre-lab activities, verbal and written feedback in practical activity sessions, and via written feedback on assessed work.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University