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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

20


Subject

Fundamentals of Chemical
Kinetics and Catalysis


No / course unit code


Semester

2M

Type of course

Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

20      2

ECTS credits

2


Lecturer:

Marek Orlik, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Room: 356     Phone extn.:245     email: morlik@chem.uw.edu.pl

Jadwiga Skupińska, Ph.D*.
Room: 112     Phone extn.378     email: skupin@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Technology Division*

Educational and
professional goals:

Knowledge of basic and selected advanced concepts, theories and experimental methods of chemical kinetics.
Broadening of the knowledge of chemical catalysis, actual state of knowledge and industrial applications.

Course description:

Definitions and interpretations of basic concepts of chemical kinetics. Methods of acquisition and analysis of experimental data. Irreversible, reversible, competitive, consecutive, chain reactions: theoretical analysis (typical approximations) and examples. Methods and problems in numerical calculations. Problems with deduction of reaction mechanisms. Autocatalytic reactions as feedback loops. Elements of non-classical chemical kinetics - stability analysis, selection processes, oscillatory chemical reactions, chemical waves, multistability, deterministic chaos. Transition state theory and collision theory. Specific nature of reactions in solutions. Diffusion-controlled reactions. Linear free energy relationships (LFER). Elements of the Marcus theory of electron-transfer reactions. Experimental methods of studying the ultrafast reactions.
Definitions of catalysis and catalyst. Molecular theory of catalysis in homogeneous and heterogeneous system.: coordination chemistry , acid-base chemistry and radical chemistry aspects. Solid structure determinations of heterogeneous catalysts. Elementary steps of heterogeneous catalysis; diffusion and kinetic steps. Modeling of activity and selectivity of catalytic centres.
Real catalytic centres and their activity in catalytic reactions as: hydrogenation, isomerization, oligomerization, polymerization and hydroformylation of olefins, olefin metathesis, carbonylation, oxidation.

Required background:

Passed physical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and chemical technology exams.

Form of assessment:


Test

Remarks:

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Supervisor: Jadwiga Skupinska

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