Inorganic and Materials Chemistry

Stream Leader

Dr Kreso Bucar: d.bucar@ucl.ac.uk

Aims

Inorganic and materials chemistry is concerned with aspects of the chemistry of elements from across the periodic table. The topics covered range from bonding models, chemical structure and mechanism of s, p, d and f-block elements, to applications of new materials in the 21^st century.

Objectives

Students who complete this stream will understand:

• chemical bonding, symmetry elements and point groups in molecules
• the rules that describe the elements of a group in the periodic table
• the chemical and physical basis of new technologically important materials such as 'intelligent' window coatings, and chemistry in extreme environments 
• how to synthesise materials and characterise the properties of materials using spectroscopy in the laboratory

Year 1

All Inorganic Chemistry stream students take:

• Chemical Foundations (CHEM0005)
• Basic Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM0013)

and must pick 15 credits from:

• Basic Organic Chemistry (CHEM0008)
• Basic Physical Chemistry (CHEM0009)

Year 2

All Inorganic Chemistry stream students must take:

• Chemistry of Materials (CHEM0012)
• Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM0014)

and may take 0 -15 credits of (depending on their option in year 1):

• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (CHEM0017)
• Physical Chemistry for Life Sciences (CHEM0020)
• Chemical Dynamics (CHEM0021)

Year 3

All Inorganic Chemistry stream students must take:

• Advanced Topics in Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM0030)
• Inorganic Rings, Chains and Clusters (CHEM0031)

If students major in Inorganic Chemistry they take:

• Synthetic Chemistry and Instrumentation (CHEM0026)

Students majoring take 15 - 30 credits and students minoring take 0 - 15 credits of the following:

• New Directions in Materials Chemistry (CHEM0039)
• another other third year chemistry module (to be agreed with Stream Leader)

Year 4

All students majoring in Inorganic Chemistry take:

• Advanced Chemical Research Project (CHEM0080) - MSci Research Project 

Students majoring take 15 - 45 credits and students minoring take 0 - 30 credits of the following:

• Topics in Modern Chemistry (CHEM0077) - 15 credits, 3 topics from ~25
• Topics in Modern Chemistry (CHEM0078) - 30 credits, 6 topics from ~25
• Topics in Modern Chemistry (CHEM0079) - 45 credits, 9 topics from ~25

The Inorganic Chemistry Stream combines with:

• Physics
• History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science