CH 331 Chemical Kinetics and Electrochemistry 3-0-0-6
Syllabus: Rates of Chemical reactions: Elementary rate laws, temperature dependence of rate, opposing reactions, consecutive reactions, parallel reactions; Reaction mechanism, unimolecular reactions, reversible reactions; Relaxation method; Principle of microscopic reversibility; Complex reactions: chain reactions, branched chain reactions, polymerization reactions, catalysis, autocatalysis, enzyme catalysis; Theories of chemical kinetics: Collision theory, activated complex theory; Ionic reactions, kinetic salt effect; Adsorption and surface catalysis; Photochemistry: rates of photochemical processes, complex photochemical processes; Photosynthesis; Equilibrium Electrochemistry: Electrochemical cells, cell representation, types of electrodes, half reactions, standard potentials, types of electrochemical cells, cell reactions, cell EMF; Activity and activity coefficients; Debye Huckel theory; Applications of standard potentials: electrochemical series, determination of activity coefficient; pH, pKa, solubility product; thermodynamic functions; Batteries and Fuel cells; Over potential; Mechanism of electrode reactions; Corrosion.
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