This module provides you with insights into the chemistry of the natural environment and will enable you to learn the physical and chemical properties of planet Earth’s atmosphere, soils (lithosphere), and natural waters (hydrosphere). 

It is a fundamental component for understanding the causes of natural phenomena, including our weather, seasonal changes, and physical-chemical factors responsible for sustaining life on Earth.

You will also examine how the finely tuned natural chemistry and physics can be unbalanced by anthropogenic (from the Greek ànthrōpos, human + genesis, origin, i.e., human-made) activities, as we will devote particular attention to the causes and effects of the current Climate Emergency. 

These include emissions of greenhouse gases and global warming, sea levels rise, pollution, ozone depletion, and the latest research to combat these deleterious effects.

By exploring all these different aspects, you will witness how the basics of inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry that you have learned in other Year 1 courses come into play in the natural environment. 

The course will also equip you with skills that will facilitate your progression through Year 2 and above. 

By the end of this module, you will be able to: 

• Formulate a clear understanding of fundamental atmospheric chemistry, soil chemistry, and water/solution chemistry, including solvation, pH, and fundamental physical properties of water. 

• Synthesise the basics of acid/base, radical, and redox chemical reactions, exercising critical judgement in evaluating sources of information. 

• Reflect on the intricate workings of complex natural phenomena involving a delicate interplay between inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. 

• Reflect on anthropogenic (i.e., human-made) causes of the Climate Emergency and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. 

• Compile an original piece of work in the form of a deck of PowerPoint slides, handouts, white board, models/props, or visualizer, to communicate complex ideas effectively, contributing to discussions, and deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback. 

The module will be delivered as a blend of face-to-face lectures and digital learning which will also be used to enhance the classroom learning experience, provide in-depth analysis of the Module Learning Outcomes (MLOs) and Programme Learning Outcomes (PLOs), provide support, and feedback, and deliver on the Graduate Attributes (GAs).

The module comprises 10 weeks of 2 1-hour lectures (i.e., 2 hours of face-to-face lecturing per week), three 2-hour workshops, and 1 online test. 

Whilst studying this Module, you will practise and develop the following skills. 

Academic skills: 

• Describe the principles of atmospheric photo physics and photochemistry, including atmospheric radical chemistry. 

• Describe the fundamentals of hydrogen bonding. 

• Present elements of inorganic chemistry associated with ionic species in solution, including fundamentals of coordination and redox chemistry. 

• Presents the main causes of air, soil and water pollution and propose remediation technologies. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework           100% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

• Listen to and take account of the views of others. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept and act on constructive feedback.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the community. 

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity and widening inclusion 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the economy 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture  

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all  

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all 

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts  

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development  

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. 

The module will be assessed via one summative assessment at the end of the course (see below). 

Group Presentation (100% of the final mark) 

The final assignment will assess your ability to discern spurious from correct information and test your data analysis skills and some of the fundamental Learning Outcomes for this module. These include stratification and physical-chemical properties of the atmosphere; solution chemistry, including quick and easy calculations of solution pH; and soil properties. Questions relate to atmosphere, hydrosphere, and chemistry of the soil.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

The reassessment is in the same format as the original assessment, and it continues to meet the module level learning outcomes.

Summative assessment: The summative coursework will provide an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the syllabus content and to research and analyse information and to present these findings in written form.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:   

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

A descriptive outline and summary of the topics that will be covered during the module are as follows.  

Atmospheric chemistry 

• Structure and composition of the atmosphere. 

• Photochemical processes; photochemistry of the stratosphere and the ozone layer. 

• Chemistry and metereology of the Antarctic ozone hole. 

• Chemistry and photochemistry of the troposphere and inorganic pollutants, including photochemical smog and acid rain. 

• Contemporary issues associated with greenhouse gases and global warming, and latest research approaches to reduce emission and mitigate climate change. 

The lithosphere 

• Structures of minerals, silicates, and aluminosilicates; weathering/erosion chemistry of rocks and minerals. 

• Physical and chemical properties of soils; humic substances; cation exchange capacity; reactions with acids and bases. 

• Salt-affected (salinated) soils; soil erosion and contamination; threats to healthy soils. 

• Ethical and sustainability issues associated with healthy soil preservation and soil protection as forms to combat the Climate Emergency. 

Chemistry of sea water, fresh water, and properties of the hydrosphere 

• Hypotheses on the origin of water on Earth; global water cycle and water distribution on the planet. 

• Ethical considerations of natural water bodies conservation and protection of clean and drinkable water sources. 

• Chemical composition of sea water; conservative and non-conservative properties; salinity. 

• Physical properties of water and fundamentals of H bonding. 

• Chemical properties of water; including solvation and coordination; pH and buffers; redox properties. 

• Speciation of chemicals in water; pH and redox-dependent speciation and Pourbaix diagrams. 

• Chemical pollution of natural waters; eutrophication; water purification and desalination of sea water. 

General across the course 

• Key principles of communication for undertaking effective presentations. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience for progressing successfully to Year 2 and above. 

The above represent the mandatory content of the module and it is completely covered during the in-person lectures delivered by the module lecturers. In addition, we will provide you with the opportunity to choose areas and topics related to environmental chemistry, sustainability, pollution, to develop yourself and present during the group presentations. 

The aim of this module is to present the essential physical background needed to explain key concepts in physical chemistry. This year 1 module provides a key foundation which will be key for the rest of the programme, in both core physical modules and in many optional modules, later in the degree 

The material in this module includes the essential mathematical treatments and machinery required to understand the key concepts in this field of chemistry. 

The module aims to provide you with an understanding of how properties and events at the atomic level lead to changes and processes at the macroscopic level. 

By the end of this module, you will be able to... 

• Explain the concepts of molecularity and order of a reaction, the effect of concentration and temperature on reactions, and relate these to reaction mechanisms and energy barriers. 

• Explain the ways that electromagnetic radiation may interact with molecules to yield spectroscopic transitions, and the regions of the electromagnetic spectrum in which these may be observed. 

• Explain the properties of gases based on ideal and non-ideal behaviour and the kinetic behaviour of constituent molecules. 

• Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental concepts in chemical thermodynamics, including enthalpy, entropy, free energy and equilibrium constants and their inter-relations. 

• Appreciate and explain the properties of ionic solutions in ideal and non-ideal cases, and those of electrochemical cells. 

• Explain the interaction of X-rays with crystalline solids, interpret the resulting diffraction patterns, and describe the band structure of major classes of material.

A blend of on-line learning activities with face-to-face small group learning support and feedback. 

40 x 1-hour lectures, 4 x 1-hour tutorials and 4 x 1-hour workshops. 

Lectures will deliver the core course content, addressing all learning outcomes.

Formative workshops and tutorials will selectively address learning outcomes, with emphasis on problem solving and forging links between topics. 

Intellectual skills: 

• Ability to link formal theory with the observed behaviour of molecules, solids, and radiation. 

Chemistry-specific skills: 

• Interpretation of experimental observations in terms of the molecular properties of the system; 

• Use of measurements of quantities such as heat, composition, and pressure to determine thermodynamic parameters, and to construct simple phase diagrams; 

• Use of integrated rate equations, initial rates, and half-lives to determine reaction order, activation energy and pre-exponential factor from experimental data; 

• Interpretation of electronic, vibrational, and rotational spectra; 

• Obtaining information on molecular properties such as bond length and bond strength from spectroscopic measurements; 

Employability skills: 

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes: 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment: 

Coursework    20%  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgement in evaluating sources of information. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems 

Exam 80%  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgement in evaluating sources of information. 

Sustainable Development Goals:  

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: 

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.

Small-group tutorials will provide formative feedback, allowing you the chance to assess your competence. Formative workshops will be used to enhance this process. Coursework will provide 20% of the credit and will allow you the chance to assess their progress and calibrate your performance.  A final exam at the end provides the bulk (80%) of the summative assessment. 

Tutorials and formative workshops will train you in problem solving associated with the syllabus, and incorporate material being taught at the time. 

The coursework will address learning outcomes 1–3, with the end of module exam addressing all the learning outcomes. 

Both elements of summative assessment – the examination and the class test – consist of a variety of questions which test a candidate’s knowledge and understanding of concepts, and their ability to deploy those concepts on unseen problems. The portfolio of question parts is constructed so that some parts can be answered with a basic level of knowledge and understanding, and other parts support the demonstration of deeper understanding and capability. The overall balance of these aspects is designed such that candidates can demonstrate satisfaction of the learning outcomes at a basic level and receive the pass mark. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Spectroscopy: nature of light (wavelength, frequency, and wavenumber). Atomic spectroscopy: electronic spectrum of H atom. Molecular spectra: vibrational spectroscopy, harmonic oscillators and anharmonicity effects, classification of molecules in rotational spectra (symmetric tops, spherical tops, asymmetric tops), Raman effect. Electronic transitions: photo-electron spectroscopy, absorption spectroscopy, Beer-Lambert law. Electron paramagnetic and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies.  

Chemical Kinetics: experimental aspects, rate of reactions, rate laws and rate constants, determining the rate law of a reaction, integrated rate laws, half-life of a reaction, method of initial rates, temperature dependence of reaction rates  

Properties of Gases: ideal gas, mixtures of ideal gases, real gases, equations of state, intermolecular forces, properties of gases at the molecular level, kinetic theory of gases, distribution of molecular speeds. 

Thermodynamics: open/closed/isolated systems; state functions; sample and molar quantities. Energy: internal energy, work, heat and the first law; heat capacity; enthalpy; standard states. Entropy: spontaneity, disorder and the second law; third law; variation of entropy with temperature; Gibbs free energy; chemical potential; equilibrium. Mixtures: variation of free energy, chemical potential, and equilibrium constants with composition. 

Electrochemistry: Gibbs free energy and electrical work for reversible cells; Gibbs-Helmholtz equation; solutions and solubility products; activity, ionic strength, Debye-Hückel limiting law; Redox potentials, electrochemical potentials, Nernst Equation. 

Solid state physical chemistry: X-ray diffraction, Bragg's Law, Miller indices and lattice planes, powder X-ray diffraction. 

This module starts with a description of atomic structure from a quantum mechanical point of view and introduces electron energy levels (atomic orbitals) from that viewpoint. 

This leads to through to the background to the periodic table, its structure, and its use. Trends in elemental properties are reviewed. 

Simple models of bonding in small molecules are developed and then expanded to include metal complexes.

Crystal field theory is introduced, and the discussion broadened to include ligand field theory, leading to a basic understanding of the splitting of the energies of d-orbitals. 

The common crystal forms, including close packing descriptions of metallic and ionic solid-state structures are introduced.

Lattice energies of ionic solids and Born-Haber cycles, radius ratio rule, Madelung constants and the Kapustinskii equation are covered, as is the relationship between lattice enthalpy and solubility and stability of ionic solids.  

• Appreciate the nature of atomic structure, work out electronic configurations and understand the origins of trends within the periodic table.  

• Derive MO diagrams for homonuclear diatomics (s- and p-block) and use them to predict basic properties.  

• Be aware of and explain the fundamentals of ligand-metal interactions and hence the thermodynamic stability of complexes.  

• Outline the use of crystal field theory.  

• Visualise 3-dimensional aspects of shape and structure and establish the geometries of metals and ions in solids. 

• Appreciate and identify the nature of lattice enthalpies, and the use of Born-Haber cycles in the calculation of lattice, solvation, and formation enthalpies. 

40 x 1-hour lectures, 6 x 1-hour tutorials and 4 x 1-hour workshops.  

Lectures will deliver the core course content, addressing all learning outcomes. Face-to-face lectures will offer the opportunity to engage and interact with material as delivered. Lectures will combine core theory and worked examples relevant to the material delivered, allowing you to understand fully, the expectations for the module.  

Formative workshops and tutorials will selectively address learning outcomes, with an emphasis on problem solving and learning outcomes 2,4,6–8. They will provide you with an invaluable opportunity to discuss in detail the course content and fully understand any points that you may have been unsure of.  

Academic Skills: 

• Apply theoretical frameworks to observed properties.  

• Extrapolate from the fundamental principles and examples given in lectures to related but unseen examples.  

 Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Construct MO diagrams for both simple diatomic molecules as well as metal complexes.  

• Derive the properties of complexes and molecules from an understanding of electronic structure.  

• Use simple models of atomic level packing to predict solid-state properties.  

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes: 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:   

Coursework      20%  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Exam      80%  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:    

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:  

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all  

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all  

Tutorials throughout the module (3 in each semester) will provide formative feedback, allowing you the chance to assess your competence. Formative workshops will be used to enhance this process.  

Coursework will provide 20% of the credit and allow you the chance to assess your progress and calibrate your performance. A final exam at the end of the module provides the bulk (80%) of the summative assessment.  

Tutorials and formative workshops will train you in problem solving associated with the syllabus, and incorporate material being taught at the time.  

The coursework will address learning outcomes 1-4, with the end of module exam addressing all the learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session.  

All aspects are compulsory  

Atomic and molecular structure  

Electronic structure of the atom (qualitative treatment of wavefunctions, hydrogenic atomic orbitals, quantum numbers, many electron atoms, Aufbau principle, Hund’s rules, the Pauli principle, energies of orbitals in many-electron atoms – described in terms of effective nuclear charge, penetration and shielding).  

Chemical bonding: covalent vs. ionic vs. metallic bonding vs. H-bonding; Lewis structures, resonance, valence bond theory and its limitations.  Hypervalency.  

MO theory: bonding and antibonding orbitals, energy level diagrams of H2 and 1st row diatomics (homo- and heteronuclear). 

 Introductory periodicity and main group chemistry  

The periodic table (link to atomic structure)  

Ionisation energy, electron affinity, electronegativity, atomic and ionic radii  

Periodic trends in chemical and physical properties of the elements  

Bond energies and non-metal chemistry  

Lewis acids and Lewis bases (link to coordination chemistry) 

Prediction of molecular structure by VSEPR  

Chemistry of the s-block elements (Groups 1 & 2): systematic survey; trends based on increasing size and mass; liquid ammonia, crowns and cryptands (link to coordination chemistry)  

Introduction to the transition elements and coordination chemistry  

 Transition element chemistry  

Electronic configurations of neutral atoms; dn configurations of cations (and atoms in molecules)  

Variation of thermodynamically most stable oxidation state with conditions (cf. main group metals)  

Solution equilibria and electrode potentials; ΔG = −nFE; use of electrode potentials to estimate relative stability of oxidation states (Latimer diagrams), outcome of redox reactions; disproportionation  

Trends in oxidation state stability across the series and down the groups  

Redox equations  

 Coordination chemistry  

The coordinate bond  

Nomenclature  

Coordination numbers and geometries; isomerism  

Classification of ligands: anionic, bidentate, chelates; s- and p-bonding  

Stability constants: chelate and macrocyclic effect; Irving-Williams series  

HSAB classification  

Crystal Field Theory  

Crystal field splitting for an octahedral complex, Δo the crystal field splitting parameter  

Crystal field splitting for a tetrahedral ML4 complex, Δt  

High/low-spin e-configurations, spin-only magnetic moment  

Spectroscopic consequences of d-orbital splitting: empirical treatment of factors affecting Δ; spectrochemical series  

Thermodynamic consequences of d-orbital splitting: contribution of crystal field stabilisation energy to lattice energy, hydration energy, stability constants, etc.  

Structural consequences of d-orbital splitting: ionic radii  

Ligand field theory, MO description of simple complexes, pi acceptor and donor ligands, trans influence, and effect  

 Structure of Simple Solids  

Close packing descriptions of metallic and ionic solid-state structures.  

Radius ratio rule.  

The ionic model: lattice energies and the Born-Landé and Kapustinskii equations; use in calculations of other thermodynamic parameters, e.g. electron affinity; thermal stability of carbonates & nitrates  

The solubility of ionic salts and the hydration energies of ions  

Lattice energies and Born-Haber cycles  

Madelung energy and Kapustinskii equation  

Crystal Structure prediction based on electrostatic models  

Relationship between lattice energy and solubility  

This module provides you with the foundation of knowledge required to be able to understand the chemical behaviour of organic molecules and their relevance to biological systems. 

It deals with the structure, shape, and reactivity of organic compounds towards different classes of reagent. 

General principles are used to identify systematic patterns of reactivity and the influence of structure on the properties of compounds.

• Demonstrate awareness of the methods and conventions used to describe the shapes and bonding in organic molecules. 2. 

• Describe reaction mechanisms in terms of the overall change (substitution, elimination, addition), electron-availability and curly arrow convention. 

• Describe the general characteristics and reactivity of a range of saturated and unsaturated organic compounds. 

• Relate structure and stereochemistry to reactivity for a broad range of organic chemical reactions. 

• Predict the outcome and mechanistic course of a reaction by analysis of substrate structure and reaction conditions. 

• Plan the synthesis of simple structures based on the reactions covered in the syllabus content. 

Face to face lectures, workshop sessions and tutorials will be used for learning support and feedback.

32 x 1 h lectures, 4 x 1-hour formative workshops, 4 x 1-hour formative tutorials.

Lectures will deliver the core course content, addressing all learning outcomes.

Formative workshops and tutorials will selectively address learning outcomes, with an emphasis on problem solving and learning outcomes 4–6.

Academic Skills: 

• Extrapolate from the fundamental principles and examples given in lectures to related but unseen examples. 

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Understand and use the conventions for representation of molecular structures. 

• Name structures, including the use of stereochemical descriptors. 

• Apply the fundamentals of organic chemistry to a range of situations, including some extension to previously unseen cases. 

• Draw mechanisms for organic reactions covered within the syllabus. 

• Plan an organic synthesis, to choose appropriate strategies, reagents and reaction conditions for the chemistry covered at this level. 

• Link theory and experimental practice in synthetic procedures. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework 20%  

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

Exam 80%  

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture  

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all 

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Tutorials throughout the module (2 in each semester) will provide formative feedback, allowing you the chance to assess your competence. Formative workshops will be used to enhance this process. Tutorials and formative workshops will train you in problem solving associated with the syllabus, and incorporate material being taught at the time. 

Coursework will provide 20% of the credit and will allow you the chance to assess your progress and calibrate your performance. A final exam at the end of the module provides the bulk (80%) of the summative assessment. The coursework will address learning outcomes 1-3, with the end of module exam addressing all the learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Organic structure, bonding, and reactivity (Autumn semester): 

Fundamentals: Structural notations – different representations of organic molecules. Nomenclature of organic compounds. Functional groups, including Nature’s building blocks. Isomers. Electronegativity and bond polarisation. Double-bond equivalents. Bonding in organic compounds – bond lengths, angles, and strengths. Hybridization and molecular orbital theories of bonding. Oxidation levels in organic chemistry. 

Shape and Stereochemistry: Conformations of alkanes. Newman projections. Conformation of cyclohexanes, cyclopentanes, including some fused systems. Structure and isomerism of alkenes. Classification of isomers (constitutional, configurational, enantiomers, diastereoisomers). Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules (R/S stereochemical descriptors). Stereochemical representations of organic compounds (flying wedge and Newman projections). Strategies for separation of enantiomers. 

Bonding and Reactive Intermediates: Conjugation and resonance. Delocalisation of π-electrons – resonance and representation of resonance. Definition of aromaticity. Molecular orbitals for ethene, butadiene. Hyperconjugation. Shape, structure, and stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals. Acids and Bases: pH, pKa (making connection with carbanions). 

NMR Spectroscopy: Introduction to chemical shift, integration and coupling patterns in the context of NMR spectroscopy. 

Describing Organic Reactions: Homolytic vs heterolytic bond breaking; bond dissociation energy; enthalpy and DH; entropy and DS; Gibbs free energy and DH; equilibria; thermodynamics vs kinetics; rate laws; activation energy (Ea), the Arrhenius equation; free energy diagrams; intermediates and transition states; the Hammond postulate; nucleophiles and electrophiles; use of curly arrow to represent electron movement; curly arrows for nucleophilic attack / substitution, loss of a leaving group / elimination, proton transfers and carbocation rearrangements. 

Substitution reactions: SN1 and SN2: rate laws; free energy diagrams; curly arrow pushing mechanism; molecular orbital analysis; intermediates and transition states; regioselectivity; stereoselectivity; factors that determine mechanism (substrate, nucleophile, solvent and leaving group). Synthetic analysis and strategy – how to predict which type of substitution mechanism will dominate under a given set of conditions. 

Elimination reactions: E1, E1cB and E2; rate laws; free energy diagrams; curly arrow pushing mechanisms; molecular orbital analysis; intermediates and transition states; regioselectivity; stereoselectivity; factors that 

determine mechanism (substrate, nucleophile, solvent and leaving group); Synthetic analysis and strategy – how to predict which type of elimination mechanism will dominate under a given set of conditions. 

Introduction to functional group chemistry (Spring semester): 

Alkene Chemistry 1: Addition of HX to alkenes. Bromination of alkenes, including stereochemical and regiochemical consequences. Simple hydration of alkenes. Examples including cyclohexenes. Epoxidation of alkenes. Consequences of conjugation, including UV-vis spectroscopy. 

Alkyne chemistry 1: Addition to alkynes – halogenation, reduction, simple hydration. Formation and reaction of acetylide anions. 

Aromatic Chemistry 1: Molecular orbitals of benzene. Electrophilic substitution (nitration, bromination, sulfonation, Friedel-Crafts), following from alkene addition, highlighting the mechanistic similarities. Regiochemical outcome of reactions, relating to the common theme of carbocation stability and resonance. 

Carbonyl chemistry 1: Types of carbonyl group, oxidation level and structure, bonding, and infrared spectroscopy. Oxidative synthesis of aldehydes, ketones, and carboxylic acids. Addition reactions to aldehydes and ketones, including Bürgi-Dunitz trajectory, molecular orbital analysis, and formation of stereocentres (racemates). Formation and addition of Grignard and organolithium reagents. Formation of acetals, ketals,imines,imines, and enamines. Hemi-acetals and relationship to sugars. Formation and hydrolysis of carboxylic esters and of amides. Enzymatic hydrolysis of esters and amides. Hydride reduction of aldehydes, ketones, esters, and amides. NADH as Nature’s hydride, highlighting aromaticity as driving force, and relevance to typical biological reaction conditions. The reduction of aldehydes and ketones to alkanes: Wolff-Kishner reaction. 

Carbonyl chemistry 2: Enols, enolates and pKa. Typical reactivity and molecular orbital analysis. Aldol and Claisen condensations. Redox disproportionation of non-enolizable aldehydes. 

This Module aims to excite and enthuse you in the field of Chemistry, while gently introducing you to university life. 

It will form the first two weeks of the first year and serves as aco transition from school style teaching and acts as a prelude to the more formal teaching that follows.  

This Module provides an introduction to some of the fundamental skills, learning resources and techniques students need for their future study. 

Laboratory work will be introduced, and safety aspects and skills will be developed. With a heavy emphasis on teamwork the Module will foster a sense of community and belonging, enhancing student engagement and commitment.  

• Understand the legal aspects of safety in the laboratory environment   

• Make a basic safety assessment of laboratory work/ chemical hazards     

• Present scientific data in an appropriate form, with uncertainties and errors recorded correctly   

• Develop Maths skills: basic algebra; density/yields/moles/purity calcs; Sig figs, Units (micro, nano etc) and converting between   

• Appreciate and demonstrate how to make accurate notes and to begin to think about structuring essays/reports and how to reference within the essay/report.  

• Present information as part of a group to a large audience. 

A blend of large group learning activities with face-to-face small group learning support and feedback.  

The module will be delivered through a combination of lectures, tutorials, practical lab sessions, group exercises, individual assignments, and whole class presentations.  

Intellectual Skills: 

• Locate physical and on-line resources for study at Cardiff University.  

• Navigate the Cardiff Campus and locate all key teaching and social spaces.   

• Use Learning Central and SIMS to access key information.   

• Use the library and online resources to access subject specific information  

• Operate IR and UV/vis spectrometers and record simple spectra. 

• Assemble and use laboratory glassware correctly 

 Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Retrieve, record, and structure chemical information from different sources (lectures, on-line, library).   

• Safely perform basic laboratory operations in chemistry.   

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:     

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Class Test            33%

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Class Test            33% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Report                 34%

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted. 

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all 

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 

Formative assessment for the module will be provided via recapping feedback sessions from the module leader and personal tutors.  Peer feedback discussions will enhance your self-awareness. 

Summative assessment will be provided through two multiple choice computer-based assessments (learning outcomes 1–2 and 4), a lab report (learning outcomes 3–5) and a final group presentation (learning outcome 6) covering all aspects of what you think you have learnt.   

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme.  If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme.  You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.  

Reassessment will be in form similar to the original assessment.  

Introduction to Cardiff   

Student support   

Students’ Union   

ITS   

Sports   

Halls   

Library   

Food/drink   

Careers service   

Societies (ChemSoc)   

Personal and professional development   

Journey through the degree. Differences BSc/MChem (mark requirements), Placements   

Personal tutor (who will explain Ex Circs)   

Communicating with staff and students (email too)   

Being part of an International Scientific Community (breadth of learning)   

 Practical Chemistry   

Safety – PPE, correct clothing, COSHH   

Simple glassware assembly (reflux, distillation, filtration)   

Choosing glassware of appropriate scale.   

Weighing, measuring volumes (making up a standard solution)   

Critical reading of script (not blind following)   

Reproducibility of measurements (leading to errors)   

Run IR, UV/vis, spectra   

Maths   

Basic algebra   

Density/yields/moles/purity calculations.   Significant figures   

Units (micro, nano etc) and converting between 

Study Skills   

What a lab/lecture/tutorial/workshop is (and expectations of time commitment)   

notetaking/note making (and the difference between the two)   

lab notes and reports   

LC/Sims/Turnitin/submission of work   

Panopto   

Time management   

IT resources (Office, Chemdraw)   

Exams/past papers/adjustments   

Use of the Library to retrieve information (books only at this stage   

Assessment/Standards/Feedback   

Expectations of staff   

Module evaluation   

Staff/Student Panel   

Laboratory chemistry is central to a thorough appreciation for the subject as a whole. 

This module delivers practical and interpretation skills spanning the whole range of chemistry.

Experiments covering the areas of organic, biological, inorganic, physical, analytical chemistry and spectroscopy will be carried out. 

The experimental outputs (samples, datasets, spectra) will be interpreted and analysed. Experimental results will be linked with the appropriate theory and mechanism to deliver a coherent and holistic view of the subject.

Various pre-lab activities, including some teaching of spectroscopy and chromatography, will support the in-lab and related activities.

There will be an emphasis on safety and correct working practice. 

• Understand the function of, and safely use, a broad range of laboratory equipment and chemicals. 

• Access and understand risk assessment documents, and handle chemicals and equipment following the safe handling instructions. 

• Undertake a range of synthetic chemistry transformations and physical chemistry investigations that are directly relevant to the material covered in taught modules at this level. 

• Recognise the fundamental link between experiment and theory in the development of chemistry. 

• Interpret experimental data and hence determine the outcome of a particular experiment. 

• Present the results of experimental work in a structured and rigorous manner, showing a clear appreciation of the context of the work. 

Prior to each laboratory session, students will be required to engage with online resources to fully prepare them to undertake the practical work and to demonstrate an appreciation of safety.

Students will carry out a structured series of experiments, working closely with experienced demonstrators who will be responsible for the supervision and assessment/feedback on the experiment.

During each experiment, discussion and feedback will be provided so that students can develop and practice key skills relating to the understanding and interpretation of experimental data.

Content that is closely allied with experimental work, specifically spectroscopy and chromatography, will be delivered to further cement the link between experiment and theory. 

Academic Skills: 

• You will learn how to assess the risks associated with the use of chemicals and laboratory apparatus. At this level, risk assessment documents will be prepared by academic staff and provided. 

• Use a theoretical model of a physical system to interpret experimental data. 

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• You will learn and practise basic techniques that are used across the breadth of the experimental chemistry curriculum. 

• You will carry out experimental work in synthetic chemistry, preparing chemicals that are then purified using common procedures. 

• You will assess the purity of compounds you have prepared using a range of analytical and spectroscopic methods. 

• You will use various scientific instruments to measure and monitor chemical reactions and properties. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.   

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Written Assessment                     40% 

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Practical Skills Assessment         60% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all  

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all 

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts  

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development 

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss  

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 

Formative feedback will be delivered on all aspects during the laboratory sessions by academic supervisors and demonstrators. The overall quality of working and output will contribute to the ‘Lab Work’ component of assessment.

At two points in the module, students will submit a scientific report, as part of a portfolio of assessment, covering one synthetic chemistry and one instrumental chemistry experiment. Experiments will be written up in a style designed to develop professional standards of reporting. Each of these portfolios will be summatively assessed, with feedback on the first portfolio able to be used to improve the second portfolio.

Students are required to pass each individual component of this module. All assessments will contribute to the delivery of all learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided the student has sufficient credit in relation to the resit rule adopted by their programme. If the amount of credit gained by the student is less than permitted by the relevant resit rule, the student may be permitted to repeat study if they are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. The student will be notified of their eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.

Students who do not pass the ‘Practical Work’ component of this module will be required to resit as an internal student during the next academic session.

Students who do not pass one or more of the ‘Portfolio’ components will be provided with a resit opportunity over the summer following the academic session. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

All aspects are mandatory.

Introductory skills covering techniques such as setting up glassware for experiments and associated procedures such as recrystallisation, distillation, accurate measurement of instrumental data.

Preparation, purification, and characterization of a range of organic and inorganic compounds (e.g. amides, esters, transition metal compounds, interhalogen compounds).

Interpretation of spectroscopic data (UV, IR, NMR) relating both to compounds prepared and to more general interpretation.

Acquisition of data, including choosing conditions and settings; collection and accurate recording of data. 

Understanding of the term's “accuracy” and “precision.”

Reporting of and dealing with errors in the analysis of data.

Using theoretical models of physical systems to interpret data.  

The aim of this module is to provide you with an understanding of the mathematical techniques underpinning the chemistry degree course. 

It will enable you to follow the application of these techniques within other modules and to use these techniques where required. 

• Use trigonometric, exponential and log functions, including algebraic manipulations and apply the sine and cosine rules. 

• Differentiate and integrate common functions. 

• Use vectors and matrices, including the use of matrices to transform vectors, and should understand the principles of eigenvectors and eigenvalues. 

• Utilise the principle of complex numbers, should be able to perform algebra involving complex numbers, find complex roots to quadratic equations and use Argand diagrams. 

• Apply the principles of probability, including the use of the binomial distribution. 

• Use the statistical applications of the normal distribution, including the central limit theorem and confidence intervals. 

10 × recorded 1-hour lectures with exercises, 10 × 1 hour in-person problem classes.  

Additional online exercises will be made available. 

Revision session before the exam. 

The use of programming as an aid to understanding and using mathematics will be demonstrated in some of the classes. 

This module will develop independent and critical thinking skills, allowing you to solve problems in any field you may enter after graduation. 

 Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework              20% 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Written Exam           80% 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Resit Coursework       20% 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Resit Exam              80%  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module does not align with any of the Sustainable Development Goals, but its topics obviously underpins all efforts.  

Formative feedback will be provided for all the problem classes, through both marking of the submitted work and addressing difficulties during the classes. Emphasis in the feedback will be placed on how the questions covered in the classes relate to the class test and exam. 

The module is assessed via coursework (20%) and a final exam (80%). 

The summative coursework will assess the learning outcomes from the first semester and will allow the students to assess their progress. The final exam will assess all the learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Functions: Trigonometric, exponentials and logs. 

Calculus: Basic principles, differentiation and integration of functions, rules for differentiation, integration by parts and by substitution, partial differentiation. 

Coordinate systems: Two- and three-dimensional Cartesian, polar and spherical. 

Vectors and matrices: Lengths and angles, matrix transformation, eigenvectors, and eigenvalues. 

Complex numbers: Principle, algebra, solutions to quadratic equations, Argand diagrams. 

Probability: Expected values, the binomial distribution 

This module gives an overview of the process of drug development from selection of therapeutic area through to use of a drug in patients. 

The different stages of the pharmaceutical pipeline will be explored, including the challenges faced at each one and strategies for overcoming these, with consideration given to scientific, technical, financial, and legal hurdles. 

You will become familiar with pharmaceutical industry terminology used to refer to different aspects of drug development, the diverse skills necessary to bring a product to market, and the employment opportunities available in the pharmaceutical industry.  

• Give examples of different types of therapeutic area and associated drugs.   

• Describe the stages of development of a new drug.   

• Outline the stakeholders in drug development and the interactions between them.   

• Analyse and present the challenges that could be encountered during development of a drug and strategies that have been employed to overcome these. 

The module will be delivered through 16 x 1-hour lectures and 2 x 2-hour formative workshops and one summative workshop. 

You will have the opportunity to research an aspect of drug development and careers in pharmaceuticals and to present your findings. 

The workshops will provide a forum for you to explore and discuss the opportunities and challenges in bringing a new drug to the clinic.   

Chemistry Specific Skills:  

• Identify the areas of chemistry and other sciences that are applied throughout drug development.   

• Identify job roles and career pathways for chemistry graduates within drug development.   

Academic Skills: 

• Balancing multiple potentially conflicting requirements and views of different stakeholders in a drug development project.   

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework           100% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

• Listen to and take account of the views of others. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept and act on constructive feedback.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the community. 

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity and widening inclusion 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the economy 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Formative assessment: Workshops will provide the opportunity for formative feedback through presentation and discussions with staff and peers.   

Summative assessment: The summative coursework will provide an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the syllabus content and to research and analyse an aspect of drug development and to present these findings in written form.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:   

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Mandatory content   

• Types of drug and therapeutic areas.   

• History of drugs and drug development.   

• Role of different stakeholders in pharmaceuticals – patients, healthcare providers, regulatory agencies, investors, insurance companies, companies (pharmaceutical, biotechnology, contract research, manufacturing, and services), academic researchers.   

• The processes involved at key stages of drug discovery, and the associated terminology will be introduced (therapeutic area, drug targets, medicinal chemistry, QSAR, patenting, hits and leads, ADMET, formulation, manufacturing, ethics, clinical trials, regulatory approval).   

• Interdisciplinarity of pharmaceutical research and the interplay between chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, and pharmacology.   

• Career opportunities in pharmaceuticals – types of employers, job roles and skills required.   

Optional content   

• You will have the opportunity to research a topic of your own choice in drug development.    

This module introduces the challenges associated with greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, waste generation, plastic contamination, fossil-fuel based feedstock and sustainability. 

This module further introduces the difference between linear economy and circular economy and the necessity to transform from the current linear society to a circular society. 

After introducing the challenges, this module discusses the principles of green chemistry, metrics to assess the greenness of chemical and fuel production processes, life-cycle analysis, role of chemistry and catalysis in addressing the above-mentioned global grand challenges. 

Finally, you will be introduced to the current developments in the sustainable production of chemicals and fuels from renewable feedstock such as waste biomass and CO2. 

Emerging novel greener alternatives to conventional chemical synthesis methodologies will also be discussed.  

• Appreciate and explain the challenges such as climate change, environmental pollution, CO2 emission, waste generation.  

• Identify specific challenges associated with using conventional fossil-fuel based feedstock for producing chemicals and energy.  

• Define and calculate the key metrics such as E-factor and Atom Economy used in green chemistry and apply the metrics to identify sustainable synthetic routes.  

• Appreciate the importance of catalytic processes compared to reactions using stoichiometric reagents and identify sustainable feedstocks and sustainable methods for the routes.   

• Appreciate the difference between linear economy and circular economy.  

The module content will be delivered via face-to-face activities including lectures, discussion, and workshops. 

Lecture materials will be recorded and provided to support your independent learning. 

The material will also be supported by formative self-assessment tests introduced at regular points in the delivery schedule. 

The module will consist of 24 hours lecture, workshop and worked examples. 

Another 3 hours of group presentation as a continuous assessment. 

The week-by-week delivery schedule and timing of summative and formative tasks will be described in the module map. 

Academic skills:  

• You will develop skills to critically analyse examples from the scientific literature and encouraged to collaborate with your peers in analysing and reviewing case studies.  

• The summative assessment (group assessment) will allow for collaborative working when researching and critically analysing literature data enabling discussion of ideas between peers. 

•  These discussions will focus on the scientific reasoning required to develop a commercial process to produce chemicals and fuels.  

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• You will have the opportunity to develop your independent critical analysis and problem-solving skills, dealing with data from a variety of methods to a rounded understanding of sustainable and renewable feedstock, quantification of waste, circular economy, and green energy.  

• The module is centred in sustainable chemistry, and you will also acquire the vocabulary and analytical skills to exercise critical judgement regarding the contribution a particular catalytic process can make to improving the environment and reducing the impact of anthropogenic activity.  

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework           100% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

• Listen to and take account of the views of others. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept and act on constructive feedback.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the community. 

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity and widening inclusion 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the economy 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture 

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all  

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all  

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all  

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable  

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts  

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development  

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Summative assessment will consist of a group problem solving exercise, using the methods taught in this module, and a group presentation of the solution. The marking scheme will assess your understanding of the material in the literature sources and your ability to critically assess the way that a process conforms to the concepts of Green Chemistry.  

Marking criteria is provided as a separate document on the Learning Central. Feedback and marks on this presentation will be given immediately after the presentation session.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the summer period.  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Lectures  

Introduction to Green Chemistry and concepts of Sustainability. Source of environmental contamination including greenhouse gases and solid and liquid pollutants. Carbon capture and utilisation. 

Society’s demands on chemicals and energy. Current and alternative sources of energy. Energy storage, batteries, and hydrogen economy.  

Biomass and circular economy. Concept of zero waste.  

Introduction to life cycle analysis and sustainability. Measure of sustainability including the concepts on E-factor and atom economy.  

Introduction to homogeneous, heterogeneous, and enzymatic catalysis and how catalytic processes are environmentally benign compared to reactions involving stoichiometric reagents.  

Assignment  

In this, you will be given an opportunity to choose a real-world problem, relevant to green and sustainable future, analyse the problems and come with a possible solution for this problem. 

The solution will be presented to your peers along with the staff members. 

This gives you an opportunity in problem solving, teamwork and communication skills. 

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn rhoi'r sylfaen wybodaeth sydd ei hangen ar ddysgwyr i allu deall ymddygiad cemegol moleciwlau organig a'u perthnasedd i systemau biolegol. 

Mae'n delio ag adeiledd a siâp cyfansoddion organig, a’u hadweithedd â gwahanol ddosbarthiadau o adweithyddion. 

Defnyddir egwyddorion cyffredinol i nodi patrymau systematig mewn adweithedd a’r dylanwad y mae adeiledd cyfansoddion yn ei gael ar eu priodweddau. 

• Dangos ymwybyddiaeth o'r dulliau a'r confensiynau a ddefnyddir i ddisgrifio siapiau moleciwlau organig a'r bondiau ynddynt. 2. 

• Disgrifio mecanweithiau adweithiau yn nhermau’r newid cyffredinol (amnewid, dileu, ychwanegu), argaeledd electronau a’r confensiwn saethau cyrliog. 

• Disgrifio nodweddion cyffredinol ac adweithedd ystod o gyfansoddion organig dirlawn ac annirlawn. 

• Cysylltu strwythur a stereocemeg ag adweithedd ar gyfer ystod eang o adweithiau cemegol organig. 

• Rhagweld canlyniad a thrywydd mecanistig adwaith drwy ddadansoddi strwythur y swbstrad ac amodau’r adwaith. 

• Cynllunio synthesis strwythurau syml ar sail yr adweithiau yr ymdrinnir â hwy yng nghynnwys y maes llafur. 

Defnyddir darlithoedd wyneb yn wyneb, sesiynau gweithdy a thiwtorialau ar gyfer cymorth dysgu ac adborth. 

32 x darlith 1 awr, 4 x gweithdy ffurfiannol 1 awr, 4 x tiwtorial ffurfiannol 1 awr. 

Bydd darlithoedd yn cyflwyno cynnwys craidd y cwrs, gan ymdrin â'r holl ganlyniadau dysgu. 

Bydd gweithdai ffurfiannol a thiwtorialau yn ymdrin â deilliannau dysgu yn ddetholus, gyda phwyslais ar ddatrys problemau a deilliannau dysgu 4–6. 

Sgiliau Academaidd: 

• Allosod o'r egwyddorion sylfaenol a'r enghreifftiau a roddir mewn darlithoedd i enghreifftiau cysylltiedig ond rhai nas gwelwyd o’r blaen. 

Sgiliau sy’n benodol i gemeg:  

• Deall a defnyddio'r confensiynau ar gyfer cynrychioli adeileddau moleciwlaidd. 

• Enwi adeileddau, gan gynnwys defnyddio disgrifyddion stereocemegol. 

• Cymhwyso hanfodion cemeg organig i ystod o sefyllfaoedd, gan gynnwys eu hestyn rywfaint i achosion nas gwelwyd o'r blaen. 

• Llunio diagramau o fecanweithiau ar gyfer adweithiau organig y mae’r maes llafur yn eu cwmpasu. 

• Cynllunio synthesis organig, gan ddewis strategaethau, adweithyddion ac amodau adwaith priodol ar gyfer y gemeg sydd wedi’i chwmpasu ar y lefel hon. 

• Cysylltu damcaniaethau ag ymarfer arbrofol mewn gweithdrefnau synthetig. 

Sgiliau cyflogadwyedd:    

Cyflwynir y modiwl hwn ac mae'n cyd-fynd â'r Rhinweddau Graddedigion Prifysgol canlynol:  

• Cyfrannu at drafodaethau, negodi, a chyflwyno’n effeithiol.  

• Ystyried eu cyfrifoldebau moesegol, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Dangos gonestrwydd, dibynadwyedd a gallu personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Cofio am yr argyfwng hinsawdd a nodau datblygu cynaliadwy’r Cenhedloedd Unedig  

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth.  

• Arddangos chwilfrydedd deallusol a cheisio meithrin gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth. 

• Ymchwilio i broblemau a chynnig datrysiadau effeithiol, myfyrio a dysgu o lwyddiannau a methiannau.  

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd.  

• Mynd ati’n bwrpasol i fyfyrio ar eu hastudiaethau eu hun, eu cyflawniadau a’u hunaniaeth.  

• Dangos gwydnwch, hyblygrwydd a chreadigrwydd i ddelio â heriau, a bod yn agored i newid.  

• Adnabod a chyfleu eu sgiliau, eu gwybodaeth a’u dealltwriaeth eu hunain yn hyderus ac mewn amrywiaeth o gyd-destunau.  

• Ystyried syniadau, cyfleoedd a thechnolegau newydd, gan adeiladu ar wybodaeth a phrofiad i wneud penderfyniadau gwybodus am eu dyfodol eu hunain. 

Rhinweddau Graddedigion – Asesiad:    

Gwaith cwrs 20%  

• Ymchwilio i broblemau a chynnig datrysiadau effeithiol, myfyrio a dysgu o lwyddiannau a methiannau.  

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd. 

Arholiad 80%  

• Ymchwilio i broblemau a chynnig datrysiadau effeithiol, myfyrio a dysgu o lwyddiannau a methiannau.  

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd. 

• Mynd ati’n bwrpasol i fyfyrio ar eu hastudiaethau eu hun, eu cyflawniadau a’u hunaniaeth.  

Nodau Datblygu Cynaliadwy:     

Cyflwynir y modiwl hwn mewn modd sy'n cyd-fynd â gweithio tuag at y nodau datblygu cynaliadwy canlynol:   

Nod 2. Rhoi diwedd ar newyn, sicrhau diogelwch bwyd a gwell maeth, a hyrwyddo amaethyddiaeth gynaliadwy  

Nod 3. Sicrhau bywydau iach a hyrwyddo lles i bawb o bob oedran

Nod 6. Sicrhau argaeledd a rheolaeth gynaliadwy o ddŵr a glanweithdra i bawb 

Nod 12. Sicrhau patrymau defnydd a chynhyrchu cynaliadwy  

Nod 15. Amddiffyn, adfer a hyrwyddo defnydd cynaliadwy o ecosystemau daearol, rheoli coedwigoedd yn gynaliadwy, mynd i’r afael â diffeithdiro, ac atal a gwyrdroi diraddiad tir ac atal colli bioamrywiaeth 

Bydd tiwtorialau a gynhelir drwy gydol y modiwl (dau ym mhob semester) yn darparu adborth ffurfiannol, gan roi cyfle i fyfyrwyr asesu eu cymhwysedd. Defnyddir gweithdai ffurfiannol i gyfoethogi’r broses hon. Bydd sesiynau tiwtorial a gweithdai ffurfiannol yn hyfforddi myfyrwyr i ddatrys problemau sy'n gysylltiedig â'r maes llafur, ac yn ymgorffori deunydd sy'n cael ei ddysgu ar y pryd. 

Bydd gwaith cwrs yn darparu 20% o'r credyd ac yn rhoi cyfle i fyfyrwyr asesu eu cynnydd a graddnodi eu perfformiad. Bydd arholiad terfynol ar ddiwedd y modiwl yn darparu'r rhan fwyaf (80%) o'r asesiad crynodol. Bydd y gwaith cwrs yn mynd i'r afael â deilliannau dysgu 1-3, gyda'r arholiad diwedd y modiwl yn mynd i'r afael â'r holl ddeilliannau dysgu. 

Y CYFLE AR GYFER AILASESIAD YN Y MODIWL HWN: 

Dim ond ar y ddealltwriaeth nad ydych wedi methu mwy o gredydau nag a nodir yn y rheol ailsefyll a fabwysiadwyd gan eich rhaglen y caniateir cyfleoedd ar gyfer ailasesiad. Os yw swm y credydau yr ydych wedi’u methu yn fwy na'r hyn a ganiateir gan y rheol ailsefyll berthnasol, mae’n bosibl y cewch ganiatâd i ail-wneud eich astudiaethau os ydych o fewn y trothwy a osodwyd ar gyfer y rheol Ail-wneud a fabwysiadwyd gan eich rhaglen. Byddwch yn cael gwybod a ydych yn gymwys i ailsefyll/ailwneud unrhyw fodiwlau ar ôl cyfarfod y Bwrdd Arholi yn ystod cyfnod yr haf. 

Cynhelir asesiadau pob modiwl sy’n cael ei ailsefyll yn y cyfnod Ailsefyll Arholiadau, sef cyn dechrau’r sesiwn academaidd ddilynol. 

Adeiledd organig, bondio ac adweithedd (semester yr hydref): 

Hanfodion: Nodiannau strwythurol — cynrychioliadau gwahanol o foleciwlau organig. Dull enwi cyfansoddion organig. Grwpiau gweithredol, gan gynnwys blociau adeiladu’r byd natur. Isomerau. Electronegatifedd a pholareiddio bondiau. Cyflyrau cyfwerth â bond dwbl. Bondiau mewn cyfansoddion organig – hyd, onglau a chryfderau bondiau. Hybrideiddio a damcaniaethau orbitalau moleciwlaidd mewn perthynas â bondiau. Lefelau ocsidiad mewn cemeg organig. 

Siâp a stereocemeg: Cydffurfiadau alcanau. Cynrychioliadau Newman. Cydffurfiad cylchohecsanau a cylchopentanau, gan gynnwys nifer o systemau asiedig. Strwythur ac isomeredd alcenau. Dosbarthiad isomerau (adeileddol, ffurfweddiadol, enantiomerau, diastereoisomerau). Rheolau Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (disgrifyddion stereocemegol R/S). Cynrychioliadau stereocemegol o gyfansoddion organig (lletem hedfan a chynrychioliadau Newman). Strategaethau ar gyfer gwahanu enantiomerau. 

Bondiau a rhyngolynnau adweithiol: Cyfunedd a chyseiniant. Datleoliad electronau electronau-π – cyseiniant a chynrychioli cyseiniant. Diffinio aromatigedd. Orbitalau moleciwlaidd ar gyfer ethen a bwtadeuen. Gorgyfunedd. Siâp, adeiledd a sefydlogrwydd carbocatïonau, carbanionau a radicalau rhydd. Asidau a basau: pH, pKa (gwneud cysylltiad â charbanionau). 

Sbectrosgopeg NMR: Cyflwyniad i batrymau sifft cemegol, integreiddiad a chyplu yng nghyd-destun sbectrosgopeg NMR. 

Disgrifio Adweithiau Organig: Cymharu torri bondiau drwy fecanwaith homolytig a mecanwaith heterolytig; egni daduno bond; enthalpi a dH; entropi a dS; egni rhydd Gibbs a dH; ecwilibria; cymharu thermodynameg a chineteg; deddfau cyfradd; egni actifadu (Ea) a hafaliad Arrhenius; diagramau egni rhydd; rhyngolynnau a chyflyrau trosiannol; cynosodiad Hammond; niwcleoffilau ac electroffilau; defnyddio saethau cyrliog i gynrychioli symudiad electronau; saethau cyrliog ar gyfer ymosodiad / amnewidiad niwcleoffilig, colli grŵp ymadael / dileu, trosglwyddiadau protonau ac ad-drefniadau carbocatïonau. 

Adweithiau amnewid: SN1 ac SN2: deddfau cyfradd; diagramau egni rhydd; mecanwaith gwthio â saethau cyrliog; dadansoddiad o orbitalau moleciwlaidd; rhyngolynnau a chyflyrau trosiannol; regioddetholedd; stereoddetholedd; ffactorau sy'n pennu’r mecanwaith (swbstrad, niwcleoffil, hydoddydd a grŵp gadael). Dadansoddiad a strategaeth synthetig – sut i ragweld pa fath o fecanwaith amnewid fydd flaenaf o dan set benodol o amodau. 

Adweithiau dileu: E1, E1cB ac E2; deddfau cyfraddau; diagramau egni rhydd; mecanweithiau gwthio â saethau cyrliog; dadansoddiad o orbitalau moleciwlaidd; rhyngolynnau a chyflyrau trosiannol; regioddetholedd; stereoddetholedd; ffactorau sy'n 

pennu’r mecanwaith (swbstrad, niwcleoffil, hydoddydd a grŵp gadael). Dadansoddiad a strategaeth synthetig – sut i ragweld pa fath o fecanwaith dileu fydd flaenaf o dan set benodol o amodau. 

Cyflwyniad i gemeg grwpiau gweithredol (semester y gwanwyn) 

Cemeg alcenau 1: Ychwanegiadau HX at alcenau. Bromineiddio alcenau, gan gynnwys canlyniadau stereocemegol a regiocemegol. Dull syml o hydradu alcenau. Enghreifftiau’n cynnwys cylchohecsanau. Epocsideiddio alcenau. Canlyniadau cyfunedd, gan gynnwys sbectrosgopeg UV-gweladwy. 

Cemeg alcynau 1: Ychwanegiadau at alcynau – halogeniad, rhydwytho, hydradiad syml. Ffurfio anionau asetylid a’u hadweithiau. 

Cemeg Aromatig 1: Orbitalau moleciwlaidd bensen. Amnewid electroffilig (nitradu, bromineiddio, sylffonadu, Friedel-Crafts) o ganlyniad i ychwanegu alcen, gan bwysleisio’r tebygrwydd yn y mecanwaith. Canlyniadau regiocemegol adweithiau, sy'n ymwneud â’r thema gyffredin sefydlogrwydd a chyseiniant carbocationau. 

Cemeg carbonyl 1: Mathau o grwpiau carbonyl, lefel ocsidiad ac adeiledd, bondiau, a sbectrosgopeg is-goch. Synthesis ocsidiol aldehydau, cetonau ac asidau carbocsylig. Adweithiau ychwanegu at aldehydau a cetonau, gan gynnwys taflwybr Bürgi-Dunitz, dadansoddiad o orbitalau moleciwlaidd a ffurfio stereoganolion (racemadau). Ffurfio ac ychwanegu adweithyddion Grignard ac organolithiwm. Ffurfio asetalau, cetelau, iminau ac enaminau. Hemi-asetalau a’u perthynas â siwgrau. Ffurfio esterau carbocsylig ac amidau a’u hydrolysis. Hydrolysis ensymatig esterau ac amidau. Rhydwythiad hydrid aldehydau, cetonau, esterau ac amidau. NADH fel hydrid y byd natur, gan dynnu sylw at aromatigedd fel y prif rym ysgogi, a pherthnasedd i amodau adweithiau biolegol arferol. Rhydwytho aldehydau a cetonau i alcanau: adwaith Wolff-Kishner. 

Cemeg carbonyl 2: Enolau, enoladau a pKa. Adweithedd arferol a dadansoddiad o orbitalau moleciwlaidd. Adweithiau cyddwyso aldol a Claisen. Dadgyfraniad rhydocs o aldehydau nad ydynt yn enolisadwy. 

This module discusses the chemistry of the environment, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Particular attention is devoted to the causes and effects of pollution in the environment, such as smog, acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, water pollution, and the methods used for pollution control.  Furthermore, the physical and chemical properties of water and soils are examined in detail, with particular emphasis on their environmental impact.

describe the physical properties of the atmosphere and the differences in chemical composition of various layers;

describe the photochemistry of stratosphere;

describe ozone chemistry and the Chapman cycle;

discuss the of meteorology of the Antarctic ozone hole;

describe inorganic pollutants of the troposphere, with reference to climate change;

discuss case studies associated with photochemical smog and acid rain;

describe chemical emissions from volcanoes, and related sulfur chemistry;

describe the Miller-Urey experiment and discuss it in the context of volcanic emissions;

describe the global water cycle and the chemical composition of sea water;

discuss and compare conservative and non-conservative properties of sea water;

describe the interaction of the atmosphere with sea water and discuss its consequences;

describe the properties of the hydrosphere;

describe the properties of the lithosphere;

describe the physical properties of solis used for classification;

discuss how the chemical properties of soils can be influenced by atmospheric conditions;

explain the key chemical and physical threats to soil that have a negative environmental impact;

plan, conduct and report on an individual research assignment;

present a critical argument through a written piece of work;

plan and present a group presentation on a chosen environment-related subject.

16 x 1h lectures, 5 x 2h workshops

Chemistry-specific skills

On completion of this module student will be able to:

1. apply an understanding of radical chemistry to the photochemistry of atmosphere;
2. apply an understanding of radical chemistry to elucidation of the anthropogenic pollution of the troposphere;
3. apply of knowledge of solution chemistry to understanding the chemical composition and physical properties of sea and fresh water.

Transferable skills

This module will also:

1. introduce and develop the use of web-based resources;
2. develop skills in the critical analysis of data;
3. develop essay-writing skills;
4. develop experience of group work and presentational skills.

The module is summatively assessed via in course assessments.

There is no examination for this module.

Atmospheric chemistry

Structure and composition of the atmosphere; photochemical processes; photochemistry of the stratosphere and the ozone layer; chemistry and metereology of the Antarctic ozone hole; chemistry and photochemistry of the troposphere and inorganic pollutants; photochemical smog; acid rain; global warming.

Chemistry of volcanoes

Volcanic emissions; sulfur chemistry; Miller-Urey experiment - the origins of life?

Chemistry of sea-water

Global water cycle; chemical composition of sea-water; conservative and non-conservative properties; salinity; interaction with atmosphere: gases in sea-water.

The hydrosphere

Physical and chemical properties of water; gases in water; redox properties; buffers, pH; effect of dissolved carbonate and carbon dioxide; pollution of natural waters; eutrophication; water purification.

The lithosphere

Structures of minerals; silicates and aluminosilicates; weathering/erosion chemistry of rocks and minerals; physical and chemical properties of soils; humic substances; cation exchange capacity; reactions with acids and bases; salt-affected (salinated) solis; soil erosion and contamination.

This module builds on the concepts introduced in CH5101, Foundations of Physical Chemistry. In Further Physical Chemistry you will meet new material in the topics of Symmetry and Group Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Spectroscopy, Thermodynamics, Soft matter, and Chemical Kinetics. 

Symmetry and Group Theory covers the ideas of symmetry elements and operations used to quantify molecular shape into point groups. You will learn how to use a basis to analyse molecular vibrational modes using character tables with examples showing how this helps understand the selection rules for IR and Raman spectra. This will allow you to use spectra to classify geometric isomers. 

Quantum Mechanics will discuss the quantum nature of electrons including wave-particle duality, postulates of QM, the uncertainty principle. After introduction of the Schrödinger equation model Hamiltonians examples will be used to show how boundary conditions lead to quantisation and energy levels. Extension to many electron atoms will consider electronic Coulombic and exchange interactions, spin-orbit coupling, the Russell-Saunders scheme, and term symbols. The topic will also introduce the Pauli principle and look at applications in atomic spectra. 

Spectroscopy is concerned with the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. In this topic the focus will be on commonly used laboratory scale spectroscopy using microwave, infra-red and visible light. You will cover the origin of the spectroscopic effects including selection rules. 

In thermodynamics the relationships between equilibrium, free energy and chemical potential will be introduced. You will consider the importance of thermodynamic relations in the description of the thermodynamics of gases, liquids, solids, and interfaces. You will also discover the statistical basis of thermodynamics and work with model systems to understand how the collective behaviour of molecules results in the bulk properties of chemical systems. 

Soft matter includes an introduction to colloids, surfactants, micelles, microemulsions and particle suspensions. You will learn how to apply thermodynamic concepts to understand the interaction of surfactants with liquids and the phases that can be formed. 

Chemical kinetics will be concerned with rate equations for complex reactions, steady-state, and equilibrium approximations; enzyme kinetics; chain reactions. Polymerisation, photochemistry, and non-linear systems will also be discussed. The importance of surface kinetics in understanding adsorption and desorption from solid surfaces will also be covered and used to understand data from experimental temperature programmed desorption results in conjunction with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterisation. 

• Apply symmetry and group theory to solving problems relating to both bonding and spectroscopy 

• Use the concepts of quantum mechanics to explain the role of quantisation in chemical and spectroscopic phenomena.  

• Predict spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules  

• Develop the statistical basis of thermodynamics enabling the student to be familiar with key concepts of entropy, mixing in ideal mixtures of fluids and Boltzmann distribution/factors.    

• Apply thermodynamic concepts to soft matter to explain how physical interactions lead to the stability, flocculation, or precipitation of colloidal particle dispersions.  

• Use chemical kinetics to analyse data from reactions taking place at interfaces including adsorption, desorption, and reaction on surfaces.  

The module content will be delivered via face-to-face activities supported by on-line video content showing further detail and examples of ideas introduced in lectures. The material will also be supported by formative self- assessment tests introduced at regular points in the delivery schedule. 

The module will consist of 43 x 1-hour lectures and 6 x 1-hour tutorials divided evenly between topics.

The tutorial format will be small group discussion.

In this dual semester module, three topics will be delivered in the first semester and three in the second with topics delivered sequentially. 

The week-by-week delivery schedule and timing of formative tasks will be described in the module map.  

Academic Skills:  

This module will enable you to:   

• Appreciate the use of mathematical descriptions of simplified models to understand the behaviour of complex systems.  

• Better understand the application of logical thinking to practical problems including mapping a problem onto abstract concepts.  

• Gain insight into physical systems based on statistical analysis.  

 
Chemistry-Specific Skills:  

This module will develop your subject specific skills across important areas of Physical Chemistry. You will: 

• Learn and apply the concepts of group theory to predict the vibrational spectroscopy from molecular structure.  

• Describe theoretical treatment of wave properties of matter within the quantum mechanical approach.  

• Appreciate how solutions of the Schrödinger equation are found for model systems and recognise the physical and chemical significance of these solutions.  

• Explore the statistical basis of thermodynamics working with model systems to understand macroscopic phenomena.  

• Apply prior learning of fundamental thermodynamics to simple colloidal systems.  

• Show an ability to use rate equations to describe chemical reaction rates in solution and on surfaces.  

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:     

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:     

Coursework                 20%  

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

Exam                            80%  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

Sustainable Development Goals:      

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:    

• Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all 

• Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 

• Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 

Formative assessments will include:  

Topic specific self-assessment exercises introduced alongside lecture material. Formative assessment will allow you to monitor your own understanding of the topics studied as they development. Solutions and feedback on the self-assessment exercises will be provided and reviewed during lectures so that you can self-mark your attempts.  

Full engagement with the self-assessment exercises will build confidence with the material delivered and prepare you for the summative assessment components of the module.  

Summative assessment will consist of Coursework, covering topics delivered in the Autumn semester and an end of year exam covering all module content.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

The module is based around six key topics in Physical Chemistry which are used to develop your understanding of the use of important concepts to quantitatively analyse chemical data.  

1. Symmetry will be introduced using a range of examples to illustrate the symmetry elements and operations used to classify molecules into point groups. The identification of equivalent operations will also be discussed to help understand the sets of unique operations defined for point groups. The idea of operations as matrices will then be used to introduce characters and character tables. Group theory ideas of reducible representations and the reduction formula follow with an emphasis on the analysis of molecular vibrations. This will lead to the mathematical basis of selection rules with applications in rotational, IR, and Raman spectroscopy.  

2. Quantum Mechanics is concerned with the wave properties of matter: kinetic and potential energy, wave-particle duality, postulates of QM, Schrödinger equation, uncertainty principle. Applications of Schrödinger equation will emphasize the importance of boundary conditions and include particle in a box, barrier tunnelling, the harmonic oscillator. We will also consider orbital motion and angular momentum in the hydrogen atom, leading to hydrogen like orbitals. Extensions of basic theory will include many electron atoms (He), the Pauli principle and Hund’s rules, showing how this can be used to understand the structure of the periodic table. Electronic atomic spectra will be used to exemplify electronic wave functions, Coulombic interaction and term symbols, exchange and spin-orbit interactions, Russell-Saunders coupling and j-j coupling.  

3. Spectroscopy will cover the concepts underlying a range of techniques. Microwave spectra probe molecular rotational motion and so requires understanding of the rotational energy levels of molecules in terms of their moments of inertia and angular momenta. The cases of diatomic molecules, rigid and non-rigid rotors will be introduced. For infra-red spectroscopy molecular normal modes of vibration are the important molecular property. The role of anharmonic motion on relative energy levels, and the resulting allowed transitions, including fundamental and overtone transitions, are introduced. The mixing of vibrations and rotations leads to vibration-rotation spectra with P, Q, R branches, of IR spectroscopy. Visible and UV spectra arise from electronic transitions requiring concepts such as the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, electronic states, Franck-Condon factors, dissociation energies, and the model of Birge-Sponer extrapolation. Electronic transitions to/from excited states are described through the Jablonski diagram with reference to energy transfer and the role of quenching in excited state lifetimes.  

4. Thermodynamics will begin with a reprise of classical thermodynamics, including 1st and 2nd laws, Gibbs energy and equilibrium. Thermodynamics of mixing within and beyond the ideal model. The molecular basis of thermodynamics will then be discussed leading to the Boltzmann distribution. Examples such as simple estimates of equilibrium constants from the Boltzmann distribution will be used to illustrate its importance. This will then be extended to a statistical understanding of Internal energy and heat capacity at low and high temperatures. Dulong and Petit’s law. Heat capacities of gases. Gibbs free energy of formation, extensivity and partial molar quantities, solubility products. 

5. Soft matter will cover an introduction to colloids, surfactants, micelles, microemulsions and particle suspensions. The use of thermodynamics to understand their properties will be illustrated through the effect of surfactants on surface tension; thermodynamic models of micellisation and critical micelle concentration. This will lead into the free energy change for micellisation; liquid/liquid and solid/liquid dispersions, free energy changes and qualitative understanding through molecular interaction energies and potential energy diagrams.  

6. Kinetics will consider steady-state and equilibrium approximations; enzyme kinetics; chain reactions and polymerisation. The importance of surface kinetics in understanding adsorption and desorption from solid surfaces will also be covered and used to understand data from experimental temperature programmed desorption results in conjunction with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterisation. 

This module builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills acquired by successful completion of the Year 1 module CH5102, to explore further the chemistry of main group and transition elements. 

Trends in the behaviour of the p-block elements and their compounds are considered, with particular focus on the inert pair effect, the role of d-orbitals, p-bonding, and structure and bonding in main group and “electron-deficient’ compounds.  

The mechanisms of substitution and redox reactions of transition metal complexes are described. Trends in reactivity and magnetic properties are explained in terms of ligand field theory. 

You will develop a formal understanding of bonding in transition metal complexes, as a platform for identifying the spectroscopy and reactivity of such complexes. 

You will develop a systematic knowledge of organometallic chemistry, and thereby explore some of the conceptual links between organic and inorganic chemistry. 

• Rationalise trends in chemical properties within/across groups in terms of electronic and atomic properties and identify characteristic structural building blocks of extended structures 

• Evaluate the roles of π-bonding, inert pair effect, and variations in overlap and bond strength in influencing properties and predict the structures and properties of yet unseen cluster molecules based on electron counting; 

• Derive – in ligand field terms – orbital energy diagrams of tetrahedral and square planar complexes and use these to interpret both magnetic properties and their UV/vis absorption spectra 

• Derive and interpret MO diagrams for octahedral complexes and related organometallics and u this as the for understanding the 18e rule  

• Use an MO bonding description to describe the bonding of common ligands to transition metals. Appreciate synthetic methods to make simple complexes. 

• Appreciate and predict basic reactivity of transition metal organometallic complexes, exemplified by ligand substitution, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, and migratory insertion reactions. 

The module content will be delivered via face-to-face activities supported by on-line video content. Material will be supported by formative self-assessment tests at regular points in the delivery schedule, often linked to tutorial content. 

The module will consist of 40 x 1-hour lectures and 6 x 1-hour tutorials and 2 x1-hour tutorials divided appropriately between topics.

The tutorial format will be a small group discussion. 

The week-by-week delivery schedule and timing of formative tasks will be described in the module map. 

Intellectual Skills: 

This module will enable you to: 

• Apply theoretical frameworks to observed properties 

• Extrapolate from the fundamental principles and examples given in lectures to related but unseen examples 

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

This module will develop your subject specific skills across important areas of Inorganic Chemistry. You will: 

• Use MO diagrams, with electron counting protocols, to establish both p and d block metal complex structures and suggest likely reaction pathways 

• Use spectroscopic data to elucidate or verify proposed structures 

• Use the electronic structure of a complex to derive the magnetic and spectroscopic properties of metal complexes 

• Use the concepts of sigma donation and pi back bonding to account for the stability of organometallic complexes, and to suggest patterns of reactivity 

• Use quantum mechanical and group theory concepts to develop bonding theory 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Coursework                    20%  

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

Exam                            80%  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively. 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all 

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all 

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 

Tutorials throughout the module (3 in each semester) will provide formative feedback, allowing you the chance to assess your competence. Formative workshops will be used to enhance this process. 

Coursework will provide 20% of the credit and allow you the chance to assess your progress and calibrate your performance. A final exam at the end of the module provides the bulk (80%) of the summative assessment. 

Tutorials and formative workshops will train you in problem solving associated with the syllabus, and incorporate material being taught at the time. 

Coursework will address learning outcomes 1–3, with the end of module exam addressing all the learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Main group chemistry 

Ionic versus covalent bonding; role of d-orbitals; π-bonding; structure and bonding; aromaticity. 

Chemistry of the p-block elements (Groups 13-16): systematic survey; ionic vs. covalent; trends in reactivity and structure; borazine, phosphazene and SN rings; multiple bonding between heavier main group elements (disilenes, distannenes, etc) 

Electron-deficient compounds: diborane, Wade’s rules, carboranes, other main group clusters. 

Organometallic chemistry of main group elements (s- & p-block): synthesis, reactivity, structure, and bonding 

Coordination chemistry 

Mechanisms of reactions of metal complexes 

Trends in reaction rates as a function of periodicity. Electronic influences on rates. 

Fundamental mechanistic types – associative, dissociative, interchange. 

Determination of mechanisms, fundamental rate equation, thermodynamic parameters, dependence on pressure, stereochemical studies, labelling studies. 

Other mechanisms – Bailar twist, conjugate base mechanism. 

Ligand influences on reactivity of coordination complexes in aqueous solution: p-base/p-acid ligands. 

Reaction mechanisms in square planar complexes, dual pathway mechanism. 

Trans effect and trans influence. Werner’s studies on square planar complexes. 

Oxidation reduction reactions, inner sphere, and outer sphere mechanisms. 

Principle of microscopic reversibility. 

Transition metal spectroscopy 

Revision of term symbols; 

Electronic transitions and ligand field theory; spectrochemical series and ligand type; 

Spectra of Oh vs. Td; 

Jahn-Teller effects; 

Symmetry and Tanabe-Sagano diagrams; 

Orgel diagrams; 

Racah B/C parameters and ligand donor type; 

d-Block Organometallic Chemistry 

MO diags for octahedral complexes: sigma and pi bonding. Electron counting, co-ordination compounds vs organometallics. The 18-electron rule and exceptions to it, including 16 electron square planar complexes. 

Bonding of ligands to metal centres. 

Carbon monoxide: sigma donation, pi back bonding, effect on IR spectra 

Phosphines: bonding and steric effects 

Hydrides and dihydrogen: bonding, back bonding, and transformation to dihydride. Recognition that is oxidative addition. 

Organic molecules as ligands, exemplified through systems such as: h1 bonding with alkyls; h2 with alkenes; h3 with allyls; h4 with cyclobutadiene; h5 with cyclopentadienyl; h6 with benzene 

Carbenes: Fischer, Schrock and NHC. Other less common ligands 

Reactions of organometallics 

Ligand substitution exemplified by carbonyl replacement, the differences between 16e and 18e complexes (associative vs dissociative substitution). Masked dissociative pathways. 

Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination. 

1,1-Migratory insertion reactions, as exemplified by migration onto carbonyl ligands. 

1,2-Insertions and β-hydride elimination. 

Bonding (group theory) 

Quantum mechanics and group theory descriptions of orbitals, and their overlap, leading to the bonding in diatomic and polyatomic molecules; 

Molecular orbital and valence bond theories for small molecules and coordination complexes. 

This module builds on the concepts introduced in year 1 and provides a coherent mechanistic overview of key organic functional groups, including both their synthesis and reactivity. 

After an overview of advanced carbonyl group chemistry, the module delves into the synthesis and reactivity of aromatic, heteroaromatic and heterocyclic compounds––common chemical building blocks for materials with societal importance. 

The final section of the module introduces stereochemical control in organic synthesis, emphasising the significance and control of the three-dimensional arrangements of atoms in molecules. 

• Recognise and explain the general structure and reactivity of a range of saturated and unsaturated organic compounds, including alkenes, carbonyls, aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds. 

• Apply the fundamental principles by which a reaction can be chemo-, regio- or stereo-selective, and the energetic basis for selectivity in a range of organic transformations. 

• Predict and rationalise the outcome of organic reactions using the curly arrow convention for reaction mechanisms. 

• Deduce the likely mechanisms of unknown but similar reactions using mechanistic reasoning based on known reaction pathways. 

• Design the synthesis of a stereospecific or heterocyclic compound using material covered in year-1 organic chemistry and the syllabus contents of this module. 

44 x 1-hours lectures + formative workshops, 4 x 1-h tutorials; divided evenly across two semesters. 

Content will be delivered primarily through lectures.

Lectures will be used to provide content related to all learning outcomes. These will be consolidated by tutorial work, which provides tailored feedback to students. 

Formative workshops and feedback will focus on problem-solving, weighted more towards learning outcomes 3–5. 

Academic Skills: 

• The formative and summative assessments will refine your ability to communicate and explain complex concepts clearly and objectively, whether orally or in written form. 

Subject-specific skills: 

• On completing the module, you will be able to apply logical thinking to the planning of organic synthesis. Specifically, you will be adept at selecting and identifying appropriate strategies, reactants, reagents, and reaction conditions based on the integrated principles learned in years 1 and 2. 

• You will develop an enhanced appreciation for chemical and biological species as three-dimensional entities, gaining proficiency in recognising how their composition and 3D structure influence reactivity. 

• In conjunction with the laboratory modules, you will connect theoretical concepts with practical chemistry. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and display an ability use information to a fashion that displays deep appreciation of the facts. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, application of knowledge confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

 Coursework          20% 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

 Exam                  80% 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture  

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Formative Assessment: The assessments provide timely opportunities for you to review and apply principles learned in this module to tackle problem-solving exercises. They take place in the form of in-class workshops and small-group tutorials; feedback will be provided either orally or in written form.  

Summative Assessment: Written examination will comprise problems based on the lecture materials that are expanded to include previously unseen molecules and reactions. These assessments let you show that you have mastered the intellectual and module-specific learning outcomes. The marking will be emphasised on the reasonable description of the reactivity of functional groups, the ability to deduce the outcome and mechanism of multi-step synthesis, and the stereochemical control based on the three-dimensional shape of molecules. The January test is an opportunity to receive feedback on your progress towards the learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for reassessment are permitted, provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by their programme. Students permitted by the Examining Board to be reassessed in this module during the same academic session will sit an examination during the Resit Examination Period (approximately in August) before the start of the following academic session. The format of the reassessment will be identical to the original one.  

Autumn Semester  

Carbonyl Chemistry 3: Further examples of enols and enolate chemistry: crossed aldol, Knoevenagel and related condensations. Mannich reaction. Dianion chemistry. Kinetic and thermodynamic enolates (as silyl enol ether formation). The Wittig reaction and its variants. Enolate-type chemistry of sulfoxides, sulfones and sulfoximines. Reductive amination reactions. 

Alkene Chemistry 2: Hydroboration and epoxidation of alkenes. Ozonolysis of alkenes. Dihydroxylation and oxidative cleavage of diols. 

Rearrangements: Carbocation rearrangements. The pinacol and semi-pinacol rearrangement. Migration to electron-deficient nitrogen and oxygen (Baeyer-Villiger, Beckmann, Curtius and related rearrangements – Hofmann, Lossen, Schmidt). 

Conjugation: Conjugate addition to alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyl compounds. Organocuprates and malonate-type nucleophiles (including Robinson-type annulation reactions). Baylis-Hillman reaction.  

Aromatic Chemistry 2: Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr). Diazonium salts (Sandmeyer reactions). Formation and reactivity of benzyne.  

Spring Semester  

Aromatic Heterocycle Reactivity: Difference in basicity and reactivity of pyridine, pyrrole, indoles and imidazoles. Electrophilic substitution in heteroaromatic systems. Nucleophilic substitution of halogenated heteroaromatic systems. C-Metalated heterocycles. 

Aromatic Heterocyclic Synthesis: Retrosynthetic analysis and synthesis of aromatic heterocyclic systems – pyridine, pyrimidine, pyrrole, furan, oxazole, thiazole, imidazole, and some of their benzo-fused analogues, with explicit connections to carbonyl chemistry. Non-aromatic heterocycle synthesis using the en(oid) reagents and Diels-Alder strategy. 

Ring-forming Reactions: Conformational and orbital effects in ring-forming reactions. 

Criteria for stereoselectivity: Definition and types of stereoselectivity. Energy profiles for stereoselective reactions. 

Substrate-controlled stereoselective reactions: Reduction of cyclohexanones, epoxidation/cyclopropanation of cyclic allylic alcohols. Cram/Felkin-Anh model for stereoselective addition to carbonyls. Zimmerman-Traxler transition states for diastereoselective aldol reactions. 

Reactant- or catalyst-controlled stereoselective reactions: Asymmetric epoxidation, dihydroxylation, hydrogenation, and alkylation. 

This module builds on the knowledge, understanding and skills acquired by successful completion of the Year 1 modules CH5108 and CH5110. 

You will have opportunities to enhance your employability, by increasing your expertise in a variety of areas, such as: data retrieval, analysis, and presentation; team working; information technology, and communication. 

The module addresses many of the skills described under the Cardiff Graduate Attributes. 

• Locate available sources for retrieval of scientific information and utilise a variety of methods for its extraction and presentation.  

• Effectively communicate aspects of chemistry to both expert and non-expert audiences (for instance, in an employment interview or a scientific meeting). 

• Present scientific information in a variety of formats to audiences with a range of scientific literacy. 

• Collate, analyse, and present a summary of a research area in an essay at a level that would inform a knowledgeable chemist interested in the area. 

• Work as part of a team to develop a presentation of a research topic. 

11 x 2-hour and 1-hour lecture/workshops.  

These will be a mixture of lecture type presentations and workshop events. 

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Use generally applicable software to deliver presentation, create documents, analyse data, and manage literature. 

• Use of chemistry specific drawing and visualisation software to present diagrammatic data. 

• Use of chemistry specific databases to retrieve chemical information. 

• Search electronic sources for technical information exercising critical judgement in evaluating sources of information. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Display a knowledge of organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Poster Presentation             20% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Oral Presentation                 30% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Written Assessment             50% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all  

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all  

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 

The module is a summative assessment via three tasks: a group poster, a written presentation, and a non-technical oral presentation. All assessments will address all learning outcomes, though at different levels. 

The group work could potentially be moderated in line with personal portfolios of work prepared by each student. 

There will also be a series of tasks during the module which will be used to provide formative feedback. 

Any academic or competence standards which may limit the availability of adjustments or alternative assessments for disabled students should be clearly stated in line with guidance provided in the Reasonable Adjustment Policy and Procedure 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

• Career reflection, management, and interview skills (to be taught with assistance from Careers Service). 

• Database searching for chemistry resources on the internet e.g. Scopus, Web of Knowledge, Sci-finder. 

• Use of a reference manager program: Correct referencing and acknowledgement; avoidance of plagiarism. 

• Use of chemical drawing software. 

• Scientific graphical software 

• Using critical analysis to choose appropriate topics for presentations (visual, written, and oral). 

• Translation of complex scientific information and communicating it effectively, taking into account the audience and context. 

• Verbal and visual presentation skills, to be used in a group poster and a short talk. 

• Written presentation skills, including the identification and communication of key messages. 

• Business Model Canvas 

This module introduces students to carbohydrates, amino acids, and proteins and their role in living organisms. 

An insight to these fundamental molecules of life and their roles will be discussed in the context of their physical properties, shape, and reactivity. 

This module builds on the general principles of organic chemistry that are used to identify patterns of reactivity and how this influences the roles of these molecules. 

• Draw the different representations of carbohydrates to identify stereochemical elements and predict reaction outcomes. 

• Draw the structures of proteinogenic amino acids, di-, and polypeptides at varying pH. 

• Explain the interactions between amino acids in relation to the different protein structure levels. 

• Relate structure and reactivity of compounds to their role in the chemistry of life. 

• Predict curly-arrow mechanisms for biological transformations by applying fundamental principles of organic chemistry. 

• Solve equations relating to changes in Gibbs free energy  

17 x 1-hour lectures will deliver the core course content, addressing all the learning outcomes.

2 x 1 hour formative workshops, 2 small group tutorials will enhance knowledge of key learning outcomes through problem solving. 

Academic skills: 

• You will take part in tutorials during which discussions on the topics raised will enable you to demonstrate your intellectual curiosity and offer potential solutions, allowing you to develop your critical thinking and verbal communication skills. 

• You will develop skills in critical judgment in evaluating electronic and printed resources around the module topic. 

Chemistry Specific Skills: 

• You will develop the skills to rationalise the reaction mechanisms of the fundamental molecules of life using the curly arrow formalism of organic chemistry. 

• You will be able to propose biochemically relevant reactivity of previously unseen molecules using the principles of organic chemistry. 

• You will be able to predict when a cofactor will be required for a biochemical transformation. 

• You will be trained to in using electronic resources relevant to field of organic chemistry. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Workshop                   20% 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

Exam                          80% 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

Sustainable Development Goals:      

This module does not align with any of the Sustainable Development Goals, but its topics do underpin all. 

Formative assessment: The first two workshops will be assessed formatively, and feedback provided either orally or in written form. This will give students an opportunity to consolidate the factual module content and to practice applying this to solving problems 

Summative assessment: An examination (80%) will assess the learning outcomes through solving of mechanistic and structural chemical problems and calculations. The relevance of these results should be used to explain biological processes and methods of chemical analysis. Information searching and retrieval skills in the context of the learning outcomes will be assessed through an online multichoice exercise (20%). 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Carbohydrates 

Structure of aldose and ketose sugars. Pyranose and furanose forms of sugars, alpha and beta anomers and the anomeric effect. Representation of carbohydrates as Fischer, Haworth, “zig-zag” and Mills projections. Structure of glycosides and their chemical and enzymatic hydrolysis, tests for reducing sugars. 

Structural and signalling roles played by carbohydrates in biology. 

Glycolysis 

Gibbs Free Energy changes and roles of ATP in driving biochemical reactions in context of glycolysis. Role of NAD+/NADH and other cofactors in redox reactions. Reactivity of thioesters and key reactions such as hydrolysis. 

Stages of glycolysis and the mechanisms of the key biological transformations. 

Citric Acid Cycle 

Synthesis of acetyl-CoA by the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex and the role of thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP). 

Intermediates in the citric acid cycle and the mechanisms of the chemical transformations. Outline of the electron-transport chain and ATP synthesis. 

Amino Acids 

Structure and stereochemistry of alpha amino acids and the side chains of the proteinogenic amino acids. 

Side chain functional groups, polarity, pKa and charge at pH 7. 

Ability of side chains to engage interactions (hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic interactions, ionic bonding). 

Proteins and Peptides 

Condensation of amino acids to dipeptides, polypeptides, and proteins, and (briefly) the biological significance of these molecules and polypeptide analysis. 

Role of thiamine pyrophosphate and pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) in amino acid biosynthesis.  

Reading and Resource List 

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 8th edition, David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox, W. H. Freeman, ISBN-13: 978-1-31-922800-2 

Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed, J Clayden, N Greeves, S Warren, Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0199270293 

Biochemistry, 9th Edition, Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer, W. H. Freeman, ISBN-13: 978-1-31-911465-7  

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways, 2nd Ed, J. E. McMurry, T. P. Begley, MacMillan, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1-936221-56-1 

This module develops the use, interpretation, analysis, and application of molecular spectroscopies. 

The application of these techniques to deduce the molecular structures of a wide variety of compounds will be described. 

Primary focus will be on the application of UV-visible absorption and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopies, although the module will build on a knowledge of mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy. 

This module will also provide some of the theoretical framework which supports laboratory practicals and sub-topics in core organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry modules. 

• To describe the underlying physical principles behind modern spectroscopic techniques; 

• To describe the qualitative and quantitative information provided by 1D and 2D NMR, and UV-vis spectroscopies; 

• To discuss, analyse and interpret the appearance of UV-vis, 1D and 2D NMR spectra and relate to the relevant structures and physical properties of molecular species; 

• To identify and perform problem solving strategies for the prediction of spectroscopic properties from given molecular structures;

This module will be delivered in 22 x 1-hour lectures, supplemented by 8 x 1-hour workshops and 2 tutorials. 

Three staff will teach on the module which is split roughly into UV-vis spectroscopy (1/3) and NMR spectroscopy (2/3). 

Formative workshops are all in person and will provide problem solving experience on all aspects of the module and are regularly spaced across the module from the start. In most cases problems and exercises will be shared prior to the session. 

A summative workshop (take home exercise) will develop skills relating to the critical analysis of spectroscopic data to deduce a molecular structure of an unknown compound, and the prediction of spectral data from a given structure.  

Academic skills: 

• Show an appreciation of what kind of information is provided by different spectroscopic techniques 

• Interpret complex scientific information and relate to properties of different classes of molecules 

• Develop diverse and effective problem-solving skills focussed upon processing multiple data sets 

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Apply concepts underpinning fundamental principles of UV-vis and NMR spectroscopies 

• Be able to interpret IR, UV-vis, MS, and NMR data and relate to molecular structures 

• Be able to predict sketch and accurately label 1H, 13C, 19F and 31P NMR spectra with relevant information on coupling and satellites 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

 Written Assessment                20% 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

 Exam                                       80% 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all  

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

Summative assessments:  

Workshop (20%) is a take home exercise on unseen problems. Firstly, spectral data is given, and students must critically analyse to deduce the molecular structure of an unknown compound. Secondly, a structure of a compound is given, and you must sketch and label the predicted NMR spectrum of the compound.  

The summative workshop therefore assesses problem solving skills and application of knowledge. 

A written exam (2 hour, 80%) will test your ability to demonstrate your depth of knowledge and understanding of the syllabus content, and your ability to apply the techniques/concepts covered to unseen problems. 

Formative workshops (8 hours) and two formative tutorials (2 hours) will be distributed throughout the module to support your learning of key concepts, develop reflective problem-solving strategies, and encourage both independent and collaborative peer-to-peer learning. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

NMR Spectroscopy 

Revision of key concepts (coupling, resonant frequencies); 

1D NMR spectra, I = ½ (including 1H, 13C, 19F, 31P, 103Rh, 29Si); 

Decoupled spectra; 

DEPT; 

Satellites (i.e. non-100% abundant nuclei); 

Chemical vs magnetic inequivalence in inorganic and organic systems; 

Magnitude of coupling constants; 

Fluxionality (Berry mechanism, coalescence temperature); 

Prediction and analysis of NMR spectra for given molecular compounds; 

Coupling constants; 

The Karplus relationship; 

Second order coupling; 

The Nuclear Overhauser Effect; 

Exchange reactions and peak shape; 

Monitoring reactions; 

Applications of 2D NMR (COSY, HMQC/HSQC, NOESY/ROESY); 

Quadrupolar nuclei; 

UV-vis spectroscopy  

Selection rules and revision of Beer Lambert law; 

Spectrometer basics; sample types 

Modern commercial applications of UV-vis spectroscopy 

Appearance of bands; Franck-Condon; from potential diagrams to spectra (vibronic structure) 

Jablonski energy level diagrams 

Types of electronic transition: π-π*, n-π*, CT; MLCT, LMCT (d-d, f-f briefly) 

Relationship of electronic transitions to molecular structures of aromatic molecules; 

Influence of conjugation and substituents on absorption properties; 

Influence of pH on absorption properties; 

Comparison of charge transfer species in aromatic organics and metal complexes; 

Solvent dependence (positive and negative solvatochromism) of CT transitions; 

Charge transfer complexes in donor acceptor mixtures; 

Essential Reading and Resource List 

References to the primary literature will be given throughout and you will be expected to utilise WoK to access supporting information to the lecture notes. 

Background Reading and Resource List 

Atkins – Physical Chemistry 

Banwell – Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy 

Brisdon – Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods (Oxford Primer) 

Hore – NMR (Oxford Primer) 

Iggo – NMR Spectroscopy in Inorganic Chemistry (Oxford Primer) 

Organic Structure Determination using 2D NMR Spectroscopy, A problem-based approach, Jeffrey Simpson 

Laboratory chemistry is central to a thorough appreciation for the subject as a whole. This module delivers practical and interpretation skills spanning the whole range of chemistry. Experiments covering the areas of organic, biological, inorganic, physical, analytical chemistry and spectroscopy will be carried out. The experimental outputs (samples, datasets, spectra) will be interpreted and analysed. Experimental results will be linked with the appropriate theory and mechanism to deliver a coherent and holistic view of the subject. 

Various pre-lab activities, including some teaching of spectroscopy and chromatography, will support the in-lab and related activities. 

There will be an emphasis on safety and correct working practice. 

Undertake a range of synthetic chemistry transformations and physical chemistry investigations using appropriate laboratory equipment in a safe manner. These experiments are typically more involved than those in CH5110. 

Understand the importance of an experiment in terms of the skills being developed, and to relate the experimental output to the underlying theory. 

Present and critically evaluate experimental data in a structured and rigorous manner. 

Identify deficiencies in experimental data, and propose new experiments that will address any such deficiencies. 

Prior to each laboratory session, students will be required to engage with online resources to fully prepare them to undertake the practical work and to demonstrate an appreciation of safety. 

Students will carry out a structured series of experiments, working closely with experienced demonstrators who will be responsible for the supervision and assessment/feedback on the experiment. 

Following each experiment or group of experiments, discussion and feedback sessions will be held so that students can develop and practice key skills relating to the understanding and interpretation of experimental data. 

Content that is closely allied with experimental work, specifically spectroscopy and chromatography, will be delivered to further cement the link between experiment and theory. 

Intellectual Skills 

• You will learn to select and apply techniques and experimental designs that are used across the breadth of chemistry. 

Chemistry-Specific Skills 

• You will carry out experimental work in synthetic chemistry, preparing chemicals which are then purified using common procedures. 

• You will assess the structure, purity and physico-chemical properties of compounds using a range of analytical and spectroscopic methods. 

Transferable Skills 

• You will prepare rigorous reports that describe the conduct, findings and conclusions of experimental work. 

• You will accurately record measurements and observations from experiments. 

• You will use appropriate software (including specific chemical drawing and analysis software) to produce reports of a high standard. 

Formative feedback will be delivered on all aspects during the laboratory sessions by academic supervisors and demonstrators. At the end of each experiment, experimental data and/or samples will be evaluated for summative assessment, with immediate feedback given. The overall quality of working and output will contribute to the ‘Lab Work’ component of assessment. 

Formative feedback will be delivered during a session after completion of each experiment by all groups. This will then feed into two submissions of data interpretation and analysis, one per semester. 

At two points in the module, you will submit an extended experimental write-up, as part of a portfolio of assessment, covering one synthetic chemistry and one instrumental chemistry experiment. Experiments will be written up in a style designed to develop professional standards of reporting. Each of these portfolios will be summatively assessed, with feedback on the first portfolio able to be used to improve the second portfolio. All learning outcomes will be covered, with a focus on learning outcome 2. 

Students are required to pass each individual component of this module. All assessments will contribute to the delivery of all learning outcomes. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme.  If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme.  You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

Students who do not pass the ‘Practical Work’ component of this module will be required to resit as an internal student during the next academic session. 

Students who do not pass one or more of the ‘Portfolio’ components will be provided with a resit opportunity over the summer following the academic session. 

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Type of assess     %  Contrib.  Title              Duration    Approx. date of Assess.   Qualifying Mark 

PSA                       50                  Lab Work                        Oct-May                              40 

CW                        50                  Lab Write Ups                 Nov-May                             40 

All aspects are mandatory. 

Application of synthetic chemistry techniques to the preparation, purification and characterization of a range of organic and inorganic compounds (e.g., organometallic compounds, coordination compounds). 

Experimental determination of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of reactions, colloidal and surface processes (spectrophotometric and potentiometric methods). Presentation of data and application of theory to determine parameters. 

Use of basic computational chemistry software for the exploration of chemical structure and reactivity. 

Application of spectroscopic data (UV, IR, NMR) for assigning structure and stereochemistry. 

In this module you will learn how to efficiently and effectively search for and retrieve information within the vast chemical literature.  

You will gain skills in presenting experimental procedures, chemical data, and concepts both in writing and orally to diverse audiences.  

You will gain experience with the digital tools that are available for communication through different media.  

You will have opportunities to enhance your employability, by developing your team working, proficiency in information technology and articulating your skills to potential employers. 

• Locate, retrieve, and evaluate chemical information from books, journals, and specialised databases.  

• Articulate chemical concepts, information, and skills proficiency to both expert and non-expert audiences through oral presentation, writing and digital media.  

• Work in a team to accomplish a presentation task on time. 

11 x 1-hour lectures and workshops.  

These will be a mixture of lecture type presentations and workshop events.  

Additional online resources will also be provided. 

Intellectual skills: 

• Ability to analyse a topic in order to prepare for an oral, written, or visual presentation  

• Use of critical analysis to choose and present material of an appropriate level for a given audience.  

Chemistry-Specific Skills:  

• Use of chemistry specific databases to retrieve chemical information  

• Use of chemistry specific drawing and visualisation software to present diagrammatic data  

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:   

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Show an appreciation of organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Appreciate organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Poster Presentation                      20%  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Oral Presentation                          30% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Written Assessment                      50% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages  

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all  

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 

The module is summatively assessed via three tasks, a group poster, a written literature review essay, and a non-technical oral presentation. The poster and talk will involve an element of peer assessment.   

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Data-base searching e.g. Scopus, Web of Knowledge, Sci-finder.  

Use of a reference manager program.  

Use of chemical drawing software.  

Correct referencing and acknowledgement; avoidance of plagiarism.  

Using critical analysis to choose appropriate topics for presentations (visual, written, and oral).  

Translation of complex scientific information and communicating it effectively, taking into account the audience and context.  

Verbal and visual presentation skills, to be used in a group poster and a short talk.  

Written presentation skills, including the identification and communication of key messages.  

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the communication of science in different contexts (e.g. print, video media, posters).  

Career reflection, job application and interview skills (to be taught with assistance from Student Futures). 

This module will give you an introduction into modern practical skills in medicinal chemistry. 

This will include hands-on training in often-used reactions and set-ups in the field as well as handling of biological macromolecules.  

In addition, you will have the chance to use of state-of–the-art equipment, such as flow reactors, an automatic chromatographic purification system and a scale-up reaction vessel.  

Medicinal chemistry concepts, such as 3-D shape complementarity, Structure Analysis Relationship (SAR) analysis and physicochemical properties will be interwoven into the module, using the appropriate software.  

You will use medicinal chemistry concepts to take responsibility of which compounds to synthesise next and how to save a chemical series by targeted chemical modification of the lead compound.  

You will be instructed in methods essential for data acquisition and reporting to professional standards. There will be the opportunity to critically evaluate published, peer reviewed research. 

• Safely carry out a range of reactions of organic and biological molecules using state-of-the-art laboratory equipment.  

• Make independent decisions on which compounds should be made next and how on a typical medicinal chemistry project based on logical medicinal chemistry concepts.  

• Present experimental procedures, data, and interpretations in a precise, concise, and professional manner.  

• Critically evaluate and draw conclusions from scientific information from synthetic and biological experiments and published sources. 

This module will be delivered through blended learning. Online resources will supplement hands-on learning in the teaching laboratory:  

• Online laboratory manuals will allow you to plan experimental work beforehand in a safe and timely manner and also introduce key medicinal chemistry concepts (learning outcomes 1, 2)  

• You will carry out eight synthetic experimental experiments, four biological experiments with an additional four computational experiments being delivered live online (learning outcomes 1 – 4)  

• You will take part in a journal club where you will critique a publication in an oral presentation.

Chemistry Specific Skills: 

• Carry out COSHH and risk assessments to ensure safe practice prior to experimental work.  

• Performing scientific calculations critical for proper reagent preparation.  

• Essential practical skills in synthetic chemistry and handling proteins and nucleic acids   

• Identify and assess the purity of reaction products using modern analytical and spectroscopic methods  

• Problem-solving to save a chemical series from a common fault by fine-tuning of a basic centre.  

• Thinking in 3-D by learning how to draw, minimise the energy of and overlay molecules in silico   

• Analyse and spot SAR trends with regards to activity and lipophilicity  

• Using software packages in the field of medicinal chemistry and statistics  

• Prepare concise and accurate scientific reports of experimental data and procedure  

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:   

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.   

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Presentation                                      20% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Practical Skills Portfolio                     80% 

•  Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 

There are 2 points of assessment in this module:  

Practical skills portfolio (80%)  

Students will compile a portfolio where they will be required to evidence the following aspects of practice: 

Consistent attendance and active engagement in practical sessions. 

Proficiency in safely performing standard techniques in synthesis and analysis. For some experiments this may include an assessment of the quality of physical samples according to appearance, 1H NMR spectroscopic and LC/MS analysis. 

Operating common equipment in the medicinal chemistry laboratory.   

Recording of experimental procedures and outcomes in a professional style that would enable reproduction of the experiment. 

Reporting of analytical data in the style of a chemistry journal. 

Interpretation of analytical data to deduce or confirm chemical structure. 

Use of software for statistical analysis and graphical presentation of numerical data. 

Use of software of calculation and visualisation of 3-D structure and molecular properties. 

Decision making and planning what compounds to make and how by applying medicinal and synthetic chemistry principles. 

Mechanistic interpretation of chemical reactions. 

Problem solving using a combination of medicinal chemistry concepts and appropriate software to overcome challenges in biological activity and synthesis.  

A reflective commentary describing skills development, signposting the evidence of the above skills and discussing what might have been done differently to improve experimental outcomes. 

Formative feedback on the portfolio will be provided at the end of autumn semester. 

Journal Club (20%) 

Students will be individually assessed in the form of a short presentation in a ‘Journal club’-style workshop. Each student will present a critical evaluation of a peer reviewed published paper. 

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

An attendance register will be kept at laboratory sessions. Students who do not pass the ‘Practical Skills Portfolio” component of this module due to lack of attendance at laboratory sessions will be required to resit as an internal student during the next academic session. If students have attended laboratory sessions, students will be permitted to revise and resubmit their portfolio during the resit period. 

Since the journal club consists of a group discussion, the student will not be able to resit this assignment in its original form. Instead, in the summer, they will be asked to provide a written critique of an assigned journal article and then discuss it with the appropriate staff member. 

Practical experience with laboratory equipment for synthetic organic chemistry and purification, including handling air-sensitive reagents.  

Synthetic and purification techniques will be illustrated using a variety of reactions that are commonly employed in medicinal chemistry which may include Pd-catalysed C-C coupling and organometallic reactions, SNAr reactions, amide couplings, heterocycle-forming condensation reactions, reductive aminations, late-stage fluorination and protecting group chemistry.  

Fundamental mechanistic principles of common synthetic reactions in medicinal chemistry and their place in synthetic strategy.  

Principles of operation of laboratory equipment for synthesis and testing of drugs candidates.  

Use of apparatus including flow reactors, an automatic chromatographic purification system and a scale-up reaction vessel.  

Practical skills in pipetting and buffer making.  

Polymerase Chain Reaction – theory and practice.  

Gel electrophoresis and blotting – practical technique and data interpretation.  

Use of computational chemistry software for prediction of molecular shape, physicochemical properties (in silico 3-D shape complementarity, calculation of pKa and lipophilicity) and analysis of structure-activity relationships.  

Use of software for statistical analysis, graphing, and data presentation.  

Literature search/critiquing and evaluating a scientific paper.  

Essay writing skills and referencing. 

This module will set out the essential concepts of physical chemistry that underpin key aspects of medicinal chemistry. 

This will include descriptions of intermolecular forces and their modelling in computer software to describe the interactions between drugs and their targets as well as the properties and behaviour of drugs in relevant systems, such as the body and in formulation. 

• Discuss the origin and importance of intermolecular interactions, including hydrogen bonding, dispersion, electrostatics, and induction and how they influence the properties of drugs.  

• Evaluate drug-protein interactions, protein-protein interactions, solubility, and other pharmaceutical parameters in terms of molecular interactions and thermodynamics.  

• Apply kinetic descriptions to processes of pharmacological relevance such as enzyme kinetics and pharmacokinetics.  

• Compare different approaches to modelling the intra- and intermolecular forces using molecular mechanics and assess which approach is most applicable to a challenge in medicinal chemistry.

Content will largely be delivered through 22 x 1-hour lectures, addressing all learning outcomes. 

These will be supplemented by workshops and tutorials that will selectively address learning outcomes with an emphasis on problem solving and forging links between topics.

Chemistry-Specific Skills: 

• Applying concepts from fundamental physical chemistry to understand the behaviour of drugs and their biomolecular targets.  

• You will develop a detailed understanding of kinetics, thermodynamics, and intermolecular forces and how these are related to observed phenomena.  

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:     

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

Online Quiz              20% 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Exam                        80% 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:      

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:    

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture 

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss 

Formative assessment: Workshops and tutorials will be assessed formatively, and feedback provided either orally or in written form. This will prepare you to tackle problem-solving exercises in the examination.  

Summative assessment: A written exam (2 hours) will test your ability to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the syllabus content, and your ability to apply the techniques/concepts covered to unseen problems.  

An online quiz will allow you to demonstrate your ability to solve medicinal chemical problems.  

The online quiz will focus on your ability to use and interpret numerical data representing physical properties to predict pharmacological properties of drugs. Marks will reflect the extent to which you have met the module learning outcomes shown above.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

All resit assessments will be held in the Resit Examination period, prior to the start of the following academic session. 

Intra- and intermolecular forces:   

dispersion forces, electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, halogen bonding, & hydrophobic effect. 

Molecular interactions and pharmaceutical parameters as consequences of intra- and intermolecular forces. 

Aqueous solubility, lipophilicity, effects of protonation state and pKa, logP, c-logP, logD, PEGylation for increasing aqueous solubility, group additivity approaches to estimate pharmaceutical parameters; 

Hunter’s hydrogen-bonding model for molecular interactions; 

Small-molecule-protein interactions, protein-protein interactions 

Drugs and physiology, volume of distribution, cell membrane is an aqueous-lipophilic-aqueous type barrier, serum albumin as carrier protein;  

QSAR: Structure – function relationships; 

Drug administration routes; 

Molecular interactions in drug formulation; 

Modelling the intra- and intermolecular forces with molecular mechanics:  

Born-Oppenheimer, functional forms for bonded and non-bonded, parameters and specific forcefields for medicinal chemistry 

Applications of molecular mechanics: conformational searching, drug-receptor docking, introduction to molecular dynamics.  

Thermodynamics:   

Recap of concepts: enthalpy, entropy, free energy, equilibrium constants;  

Thermodynamics of protein structure and folding;  

Cold and hot denaturation; 

Thermodynamics of drug-receptor and protein-protein interaction;  

Techniques for determination of thermodynamics quantities.  

Kinetics:   

Recap of concepts: 0th, 1st, 2nd order reactions, Arrhenius model;  

Enzyme kinetics: Michaelis-Menten model, cooperativity, inhibition and activation, complex reactions;  

Pharmacokinetics: 

ADMET: adsorption, distribution, volume distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicity, and bioavailability  

Overview of pathways of drug excretion and degradation (e.g. CYP450 degradation); 

Use of prodrugs to achieve desired properties; half-life of drug in body. 

This module will provide Chemistry students with the business skills necessary to turn opportunities that emerge from their chemistry knowledge into a successful enterprise.  

Working with experts from Cardiff Business School, module participants will explore different facets of business such as marketing, strategy, and operations management, to provide them with an organisational framework and the business knowhow needed to make their entrepreneurial aspirations a reality.  

Particular attention will be paid to the particular challenges of chemistry related enterprises such as how rigorous health and safety practices can underpin a successful approach to business.   

• Critically evaluate and analyse different business models, by identifying key business strategies and their effectiveness.  

• Examine the interrelationship between, and impact of, key business principles such as marketing, operations management, (digital technologies) and financial awareness.  

• Recognise and apply key components of a successful business plan through the design of an effective business plan.  

• Effectively communicate, orally and in writing, key business principles and strategies to a diverse audience with varying stakeholder interests and needs.  

This module will be shared via a series of short lectures and expert insights from successful entrepreneurs.  Case studies will be used to illustrate best practice examples from business and students – they will synthesise these cases in group activities. 

Some of the sessions will include guest speakers who run their own business.  Group discussions will follow guest speakers to ensure that key learning points are identified. 

The concept of the business plan will be introduced early in the programme and will be referred to at different points throughout the programme where relevant.   

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community.  

• Actively take responsibility for promoting human rights, celebrating diversity, and widening inclusion  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Act as global citizens, engaging with and valuing cultural difference through practical experience of other countries.  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

 Presentation                                 40% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

 Written Assessment                     60% 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted. 

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Understand organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the community. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals:   

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all  

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation 

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 

Goal 15. Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss  

Distinguish between successful and unsuccessful business practices  

Formative assessment through group work flip chart exercises   

Appreciate key principles of productive marketing practices  

Formative assessment through interpretation of case studies  

Discover the core tenets of successful business strategy  

Formative assessment via mentimeter  

Summarise important operations management principles  

Formative assessment of groups feeding back their summaries following operations management session  

Display an appreciation of basic finance knowledge required to create a business plan  

Summative assessment via business plan  

Evaluate the importance of considering incorporating digital within your approach to business  

Summative assessment via presentation and business plan  

Demonstrate their understanding of the important components of successful business through the completion of a comprehensive business plan – summative assessment via business plan  

Ability to communicate your business idea to a range of different stakeholders  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Should you fail the module you will be able to submit a recorded version of your individual presentation. Should you fail the business plan element, following extra guidance from a module coordinator, you can make adjustments needed to your business plan and resubmit.   

The programme of activity has been designed to provide a comprehensive introduction into all of the necessary components of running your own business. Proposed topics include:  

1. Introduction, oversight, and assessment explanation    

Setting the scene – why having different routes for your career is advantageous, benefits of being a business owner and examples of successful chemist entrepreneurs  

2. Vision, Mission, and Brand  

This session will explore the importance of setting a vision for the business and being authentic to your mission and brand.  

3. Strategy and Innovation  

This session will share the important role that strategy plays in setting your direction and how it is essential to consider building innovation as a central spine to your strategic intent.  

4. Understanding Customers  

This session will discuss how you can better understand customers in order to refine your business offer and grow your market. It will discuss the difference between the voice of the customer and developing a customer mindset.  

5. Marketing  

This session builds on the theme of understanding customers and examines core principles of good marketing practice. Looking at examples of brilliant marketing, students will be encouraged to think about which marketing concepts and principles will help them in their business.  

6. Leadership   

Great leadership is the difference between mediocre businesses and fantastic ones. This session will explore key personality traits of successful leaders and will discuss concepts and techniques that can be deployed to engender great leadership.  

7. Teamworking  

This critical skill is an essential part of successful businesses, even those that just contain one employee. The need to work with, listen to and flex your approach in order to achieve a variety of different business outcomes is essential. This session will illustrate key team working principles and will encourage the students to explore them.  

8. Digitalisation  

21st Century businesses must consider technology and digitisation. This session will share examples of companies that successfully embrace digitalisation to commercial effect and will ask the students to consider how they can ensure technology is appropriately incorporated into their business  

9. Sustainability  

Another essential topic is to ensure that businesses appropriately consider environmental and social responsibility (ESR). This session will provide students with the latest thinking in this area and will help them to incorporate ESR within their business strategy and plan  

10. Financial Management  

This session will provide the fundamentals of business accounting needed to construct a viable business plan.  

11. Assessment session – presentation of business plan to the group  

This module discusses the structure and chemistry of proteins, principles of protein function, receptors, enzymes, the structure and chemistry of DNA and RNA, transcription, and translation. 

Principles of enzyme catalysis and kinetics, and the effect of inhibitors will be discussed. 

Concepts for interference with biochemical pathways in medicinal chemistry will be presented throughout the module. 

The concepts of agonists and antagonists will be introduced, including models for describing these quantitatively. 

Specific examples of some of the main classes of drug targets and the mechanism of action of drugs that target them will be described. 

You will learn about the design concepts for drugs against the different classes of target.   

• Discuss the chemical, structural and functional properties of nucleic acids and proteins and how these can be exploited as drug targets.  

• Quantitatively evaluate experimental data and relate this to the underlying biological processes.  

• Design drugs through application of an understanding of biomacromolecule structure, function, and molecular interactions;   

• Retrieve and communicate data, findings, and procedures from a variety of sources (literature, electronic databases, experiments). 

Content will be delivered primarily using lectures (22 hours across two semesters, equating to approximately two lectures per week). 

In addition, lectures will include worked problems and informal ad hoc formative tests. This will address the learning outcomes related to knowledge and understanding. 

Workshops (2 x 1-hour formative) will be used to enhance and assess problem-solving skills. 

Coursework (summative) will involve searching, retrieval and critical analysis of data/information from the literature and/or databases. 

Tutorials (2 x 1-hour, formative) will allow provide opportunities students to students in meeting all learning outcomes. 

Chemistry-Specific Skills:  

• Applying ideas from functional group chemistry and mechanistic organic chemistry to explain how the structure of proteins and nucleic acids permit them to perform their biological function.  

• This will be demonstrated through the drawing of curly arrow pushing mechanisms.  

• The principles of design of drugs that bind to these macromolecules through non-covalent and covalent interactions to modulate their biological function will be developed.  

• In addition to this area of problem solving, you will also gain familiarity with interpreting and presenting data, such as enzyme kinetics, visualising biomolecular structures and retrieval of information from databases. 

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:     

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

 Coursework 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

 Exam 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

 Resit Coursework 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

 Resit Exam 

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact. 

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities. 

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: 

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture 

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns  

Formative assessment: The first two workshops will be assessed formatively, and feedback provided either orally or in written form. Oral feedback will be provided during the tutorial sessions. This will prepare you to tackle problem-solving exercises in the examination.  

Summative assessment: A written exam (2-hours) will test your ability to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of proteins and nucleic acids as drug targets, the principles of how drugs interact with these, and an ability to process and interpret experimental data relating to drug-target interactions. The coursework will allow you to demonstrate your ability to use electronic and printed resources to locate relevant data/information, to critically review literature knowledge and report the findings/conclusions through an on-line exercise. Marks will reflect the extent to which you have met the module learning outcomes shown above.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE:  

Students who are permitted by the Examining Board to be reassessed in this module during the same academic session will sit an examination (2-hour) during the Resit Examination Period. Students who fail the coursework component will be reassessed through.  

Structure, biophysical properties and chemistry of nucleotides (DNA and RNA).  

Transcription and translation; mRNA and tRNA synthesis.  

The genetic code and the molecular basis of ribosomal protein synthesis.  

Overview of nucleic acid technologies – sequencing, PCR, and protein expression.  

Nucleic acids as drug targets and pharmaceuticals.  

Overview of protein structure. Secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure.  

Principles of protein function.  

Introduction to enzyme catalysis. Mechanisms of enzyme inhibition. Michaelis-Menten kinetics in the absence and presence of inhibitors.  

Quantification of drug efficacy in terms of kinetic parameters, EC50 and IC50.  

Examples of enzyme catalysis of relevance as targets in medicinal chemistry – kinases, serine- and metallo-proteases, monooxygenases.  

Structure and function of ion channels, GPCRs and nuclear hormone receptors.  

Role of these proteins as drug targets with examples of drugs illustrating their mode of action and the drug design principles.  

Proteins as drugs – opportunities and challenges for drug development. 

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn adeiladu ar y cysyniadau a gyflwynwyd ym Mlwyddyn 1, ac yn rhoi trosolwg mecanistig cydlynol o grwpiau gweithredol organig allweddol, gan gynnwys eu synthesis a'u hadweithedd.  

Ar ôl trosolwg o gemeg grŵp carbonyl datblygedig, mae'r modiwl yn ymchwilio i synthesis ac adweithedd cyfansoddion aromatig, heteroaromatig a heterogylcol – blociau adeiladu cemegion cyffredin ar gyfer deunyddiau sydd â phwysigrwydd cymdeithasol.  

Mae rhan olaf y modiwl yn cyflwyno rheolaeth stereocemegol mewn synthesis organig, gan bwysleisio arwyddocâd a rheolaeth trefniadau tri dimensiwn atomau mewn moleciwlau. 

• Adnabod ac egluro adeiledd cyffredinol ac adweithedd amrywiaeth o gyfansoddion organig dirlawn ac annirlawn, gan gynnwys alcenau, carbonylau, a chyfansoddion aromatig a heteroaromatig. 

• Cymhwyso’r egwyddorion sylfaenol sy’n pennu a all adwaith fod yn gemoddetholus, regioddetholus neu stereoddetholus, a'r sail egnïol ar gyfer detholedd mewn ystod o drawsnewidiadau organig. 

• Rhagweld a rhesymoli canlyniad adweithiau organig gan ddefnyddio'r confensiwn saeth cyrliog ar gyfer mecanweithiau adwaith. 

• Defnyddio dulliau rhesymu mecanistig sy’n seiliedig ar lwybrau adwaith hysbys i ddiddwytho mecanweithiau tebygol adweithiau sy’n anhysbys. 

• Dylunio synthesis cyfansoddyn stereobenodol neu heterogylchol gan ddefnyddio deunydd a gwmpesir mewn cemeg organig Blwyddyn 1 a chynnwys maes llafur y modiwl hwn. 

44 o ddarlithoedd awr o hyd a gweithdai ffurfiannol, pedwar tiwtorial awr o hyd; wedi'u rhannu'n gyfartal ar draws dau semester.  

Bydd cynnwys yn cael ei gyflwyno'n bennaf trwy ddarlithoedd. 

Defnyddir darlithoedd i ddarparu cynnwys sy'n gysylltiedig â'r holl ddeilliannau dysgu. Bydd y rhain yn cael eu cyfnerthu gan waith tiwtorial, sy'n darparu adborth wedi'i deilwra i fyfyrwyr.  

Bydd gweithdai ffurfiannol ac adborth yn canolbwyntio ar ddatrys problemau, wedi'u pwysoli'n fwy tuag at ddeilliannau dysgu 3–5. 

Sgiliau Academaidd: 

• Bydd yr asesiadau ffurfiannol a chrynodol yn mireinio eich gallu i gyfathrebu ac egluro cysyniadau cymhleth yn glir ac yn wrthrychol, boed ar lafar neu ar ffurf ysgrifenedig. 

Sgiliau pwnc-benodol: 

• Ar ôl cwblhau'r modiwl, byddwch yn gallu cymhwyso meddwl rhesymegol i gynllunio synthesis organig. Yn benodol, byddwch yn fedrus wrth ddewis a nodi strategaethau, adweithyddion, adweithredyddion ac amodau adwaith priodol yn seiliedig ar yr egwyddorion integredig a ddysgwyd ym mlynyddoedd 1 a 2. 

• Byddwch yn datblygu gwell gwerthfawrogiad o rywogaethau cemegol a biolegol fel endidau tri dimensiwn, gan ennill hyfedredd wrth gydnabod sut mae eu cyfansoddiad a'u hadeiledd 3D yn dylanwadu ar adweithedd. 

• Ar y cyd â'r modiwlau labordy, byddwch yn cysylltu cysyniadau damcaniaethol â chemeg ymarferol. 

Sgiliau cyflogadwyedd:    

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cael ei gyflwyno ac yn cyd-fynd â’r Rhinweddau Graddedigion Prifysgol canlynol:  

• Cyfrannu at drafodaethau, negodi, a chyflwyno’n effeithiol.  

• Ystyried eu cyfrifoldebau moesegol, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Dangos gonestrwydd, dibynadwyedd a gallu personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Cofio am yr argyfwng hinsawdd a nodau datblygu cynaliadwy’r Cenhedloedd Unedig  

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth.  

• Dangos chwilfrydedd deallusol ac arddangos y gallu i ddefnyddio gwybodaeth mewn modd sy'n dangos gwerthfawrogiad dwfn o'r ffeithiau. 

• Ymchwilio i broblemau a chynnig datrysiadau effeithiol, myfyrio a dysgu o lwyddiannau a methiannau.  

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd.  

• Mynd ati’n bwrpasol i fyfyrio ar eu hastudiaethau eu hun, eu cyflawniadau a’u hunaniaeth  

• Dangos gwydnwch, hyblygrwydd a chreadigrwydd i ddelio â heriau, a bod yn agored i newid.  

• Adnabod a mynegi eu sgiliau eu hunain, a chymhwyso gwybodaeth yn hyderus ac mewn amrywiaeth o gyd-destunau.  

• Ystyried syniadau, cyfleoedd a thechnolegau newydd, gan adeiladu ar wybodaeth a phrofiad i wneud penderfyniadau gwybodus am eu dyfodol eu hunain. 

Rhinweddau Graddedigion – Asesiad:    

 Gwaith cwrs          20% 

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth. 

• Arddangos chwilfrydedd deallusol a cheisio meithrin gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth. 

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd. 

 Arholiad                  80% 

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth. 

• Arddangos chwilfrydedd deallusol a cheisio meithrin gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth. 

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd. 

Nodau Datblygu Cynaliadwy:     

Cyflwynir y modiwl hwn mewn modd sy'n cyd-fynd â gweithio tuag at y nodau datblygu cynaliadwy canlynol:   

Nod 2. Rhoi terfyn ar newyn, sicrhau diogelwch bwyd a gwell maeth, a hyrwyddo amaethyddiaeth gynaliadwy  

Nod 3. Sicrhau bywydau iach a hyrwyddo lles i bawb o bob oedran

Nod 12. Sicrhau defnydd a phatrymau cynhyrchu cynaliadwy 

Nod 15. Amddiffyn, adfer a hyrwyddo defnydd cynaliadwy o ecosystemau daearol, rheoli coedwigoedd yn gynaliadwy, mynd i’r afael â diffeithdiro, ac atal a gwyrdroi diraddiad tir ac atal colli bioamrywiaeth  

Asesu Ffurfiannol: Mae'r asesiadau'n darparu cyfleoedd amserol i fyfyrwyr adolygu a chymhwyso egwyddorion a ddysgwyd yn y modiwl hwn i fynd i'r afael ag ymarferion datrys problemau. Maent yn cael eu cynnal ar ffurf gweithdai yn y dosbarth a thiwtorialau grŵp bach; bydd adborth yn cael ei ddarparu naill ai ar lafar neu yn ysgrifenedig.  

Asesiad Crynodol: Bydd archwiliadau ysgrifenedig yn cynnwys problemau yn seiliedig ar ddeunyddiau'r darlithoedd sy'n cael eu hehangu i gynnwys moleciwlau ac adweithiau nas gwelwyd o'r blaen. Mae'r asesiadau hyn yn caniatáu i fyfyrwyr ddangos eu bod wedi meistroli'r deilliannau dysgu deallusol a modiwl benodol. Pwysleisir y marcio ar y disgrifiad rhesymol o adweithedd grwpiau swyddogaethol, y gallu i ddiddwytho canlyniad a mecanwaith synthesis aml-gam, a'r rheolaeth stereocemegol yn seiliedig ar siâp tri dimensiwn moleciwlau. Mae prawf mis Ionawr yn gyfle i dderbyn adborth ar gynnydd myfyrwyr tuag at y deilliannau dysgu. 

Y CYFLE AR GYFER AILASESIAD YN Y MODIWL HWN: 

Caniateir cyfleoedd i ailasesu, ar yr amod nad yw myfyrwyr wedi methu mwy o gredyd nag yn y rheol ailsefyll a fabwysiadwyd gan eu rhaglen. Bydd myfyrwyr a ganiateir gan y Bwrdd Arholi i gael eu hailasesu yn y modiwl hwn yn ystod yr un sesiwn academaidd yn sefyll arholiad yn ystod y Cyfnod Arholiadau Ailsefyll (tua mis Awst) cyn dechrau'r sesiwn academaidd ganlynol. Bydd fformat yr ailasesiad yn union yr un fath â'r un gwreiddiol.  

Semester yr Hydref  

Cemeg carbonyl 3: Enghreifftiau pellach o enolau a chemeg enoladau: cyddwysiadau aldol croes a Knoevenagel a chyddwysiadau cysylltiedig. Adwaith Mannich. Cemeg Deuanionau. Enoladau cinetig a thermodynamig (gan ffurfio silyl enol ether). Yr adwaith Wittig a'i amrywiadau. Cemeg sylffocsidau, sylffonau a sylffocsiminau o fath enolad. Adweithiau amineiddio rhydwythol. 

Cemeg alcenau 2: Hydroboradu ac epocsidio alcenau. Osonolysis alcenau. Deuhydrocsyladu deuolau ac ymraniad ocsidiol deuolau. 

Ad-drefniadau: Ad-drefniad carbocadu. Yr ad-drefniad pinacol a'r ad-drefniad lled-binacol. Mudiad i nitrogen ac ocsigen electron-ddiffygiol (ad-drefniadau Baeyer-Villiger, Beckmann, Curtius ac ad-drefniadau cysylltiedig – Hofmann, Lossen, Schmidt). 

Cyfunedd: Ychwanegiad cyfunedd at cyfansoddion carbonyl alpha, beta-annirlawn. Organocwpradau a niwcleoffilau o fath malonad (gan gynnwys adweithiau modrwyweddu o fath Robinson). Adwaith Baylis-Hillman.  

Cemeg aromatig 2: Amnewid aromatig niwcleoffilig (SNAr). Halwynau deuasoniwm (adweithiau Sandmeyer). Ffurfiad bensyn a’i adweithedd.  

Semester y Gwanwyn  

Adweithedd cyfansoddion heterogylchol aromatig: Gwahaniaeth ym masigedd ac adweithedd pyridin, pyrrol, indolau ac imidasolau. Amnewid electroffilig mewn systemau heteroaromatig. Amnewidiad niwcleoffilig mewn systemau heteroaromatig halogenedig. Heterogylchoedd metaleiddio C. 

Synthesis heterogylchol aromatig: Dadansoddiad a synthesis retrosynthetig o systemau heterogylchol aromatig – pyridin, pyrimidin, pyrol, ffwran, ocsasol, thiasol, imidasol, a rhai o'u analogau asio benso, gyda chysylltiadau penodol â chemeg carbonylau. Synthesis heterogylchol di-aromatig gan ddefnyddio'r adweithredyddion en(oid) a strategaeth Diels-Alder. 

Adweithiau ffurfio cylch: Effeithiau cydffurfiol ac orbitol mewn adweithiau ffurfio cylch. 

Meini prawf ar gyfer stereoddetholusrwydd: Diffiniad a mathau o stereoddetholusrwydd. Proffiliau egni ar gyfer adweithiau stereoddetholus. 

Adweithiau stereoddetholus a reolir gan swbstrad: Rhydwythiad cylchohecsanonau, epocsideiddio/cylchopropaneiddio alcoholau alylig cylchol. Model Cram/Felkin-Anh ar gyfer ychwanegiadau stereoddetholus at garbonylau. Cyflyrau trosiannol Zimmerman-Traxler ar gyfer adweithiau aldol diastereoddetholus. 

Adweithiau stereoddetholusrwydd a reolir gan adweithydd neu gatalydd: Epocsideiddiad, dihydrocsyleiddiad, hydrogeniad ac alcyleiddiad anghymesur. 

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cyflwyno myfyrwyr i garbohydradau, asidau amino a phroteinau a'u rôl mewn organebau byw. 

Bydd cipolwg ar y moleciwlau sylfaenol hyn o fywyd a'u rolau yn cael ei drafod yng nghyd-destun eu priodweddau ffisegol, eu siâp, a'u hadweithedd. 

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn adeiladu ar egwyddorion cyffredinol cemeg organig a ddefnyddir i nodi patrymau adweithedd a sut mae hyn yn dylanwadu ar rolau'r moleciwlau hyn. 

• Lluniadu’r gwahanol gynrychioliadau o garbohydradau i nodi elfennau stereocemegol a rhagweld canlyniadau adwaith. 

• Lluniadu adeileddau asidau amino proteinogenig, di-, a polypeptidau ar werthoedd pH amrywiol. 

• Esbonio'r rhyngweithio rhwng asidau amino mewn perthynas â'r gwahanol lefelau adeileddau protein. 

• Cysylltu adeiledd ac adweithedd cyfansoddion â’u rôl mewn cemeg bywyd. 

• Rhagfynegi mecanweithiau saeth cyrliog ar gyfer trawsnewidiadau biolegol trwy gymhwyso egwyddorion sylfaenol cemeg organig. 

• Datrys hafaliadau sy'n ymwneud â newidiadau mewn egni rhydd Gibbs. 

• Defnyddio adnoddau electronig fel ChemDraw a chronfeydd data i gynhyrchu dynodwyr amgen ar gyfer moleciwlau bywyd.  

Bydd 17 o ddarlithoedd 1 awr yn cyflwyno cynnwys craidd y cwrs, gan fynd i'r afael â'r holl ddeilliannau dysgu.

Bydd dau weithdy ffurfiannol awr o hyd a dau diwtorial grŵp bach yn gwella gwybodaeth am ddeilliannau dysgu allweddol trwy ddatrys problemau. 

Sgiliau academaidd: 

• Byddwch yn cymryd rhan mewn tiwtorialau lle bydd trafodaethau ar y pynciau a godir yn eich galluogi i ddangos eich chwilfrydedd deallusol a chynnig atebion posibl, gan eich galluogi i ddatblygu eich sgiliau meddwl beirniadol a chyfathrebu llafar. 

• Byddwch yn datblygu sgiliau mewn barn feirniadol wrth werthuso adnoddau electronig ac argraffedig o amgylch pwnc y modiwl. 

Sgiliau sy’n benodol i gemeg:  

• Byddwch yn datblygu'r sgiliau i resymoli mecanweithiau adwaith moleciwlau sylfaenol bywyd gan ddefnyddio ffurfiolaeth saeth cyrliog cemeg organig. 

• Byddwch yn gallu cynnig adweithedd biocemegol perthnasol o foleciwlau nas gwelwyd o'r blaen gan ddefnyddio egwyddorion cemeg organig. 

• Byddwch yn gallu rhagweld pryd y bydd angen cydffactor ar gyfer trawsnewid biocemegol. 

• Byddwch yn cael eich hyfforddi i ddefnyddio adnoddau electronig sy'n berthnasol i faes cemeg organig. 

Sgiliau cyflogadwyedd:    

Mae'r modiwl hwn yn cael ei gyflwyno mewn modd sy’n cyd-fynd â’r Rhinweddau Graddedigion Prifysgol canlynol:    

• Cyfrannu at drafodaethau, negodi, a chyflwyno’n effeithiol.  

• Ystyried eu cyfrifoldebau moesegol, cymdeithasol ac amgylcheddol personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Dangos gonestrwydd, dibynadwyedd a gallu personol a phroffesiynol.  

• Cofio am yr argyfwng hinsawdd a nodau datblygu cynaliadwy’r Cenhedloedd Unedig  

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth.  

• Arddangos chwilfrydedd deallusol a cheisio meithrin gwybodaeth a dealltwriaeth. 

• Ymchwilio i broblemau a chynnig datrysiadau effeithiol, myfyrio a dysgu o lwyddiannau a methiannau.  

• Creu syniadau gwreiddiol a chymhwyso ffyrdd creadigol, llawn dychymyg a dyfeisgar o feddwl wrth ymateb i anghenion a phroblemau a nodwyd.  

• Mynd ati’n bwrpasol i fyfyrio ar eu hastudiaethau eu hun, eu cyflawniadau a’u hunaniaeth  

• Dangos gwydnwch, hyblygrwydd a chreadigrwydd i ddelio â heriau, a bod yn agored i newid.  

• Adnabod a chyfleu eu sgiliau, eu gwybodaeth a’u dealltwriaeth eu hunain yn hyderus ac mewn amrywiaeth o gyd-destunau.  

• Ystyried syniadau, cyfleoedd a thechnolegau newydd, gan adeiladu ar wybodaeth a phrofiad i wneud penderfyniadau gwybodus am eu dyfodol eu hunain. 

Rhinweddau Graddedigion – Asesiad:    

Gweithdy                   20% 

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth. 

Arholiad                          80% 

• Nodi, diffinio a dadansoddi materion a syniadau cymhleth, gan arfer barn feirniadol wrth werthuso ffynonellau gwybodaeth. 

Nodau Datblygu Cynaliadwy:      

Nid yw'r modiwl hwn yn cyd-fynd ag unrhyw un o'r nodau datblygu cynaliadwy, ond mae ei bynciau yn sail i bob un. 

Asesiad ffurfiannol: Bydd y ddau weithdy cyntaf yn cael eu hasesu'n ffurfiannol, a chaiff adborth ei ddarparu naill ai ar lafar neu'n ysgrifenedig. Bydd hyn yn rhoi cyfle i fyfyrwyr atgyfnerthu cynnwys ffeithiol y modiwl ac ymarfer ei gymhwyso wrth ddatrys problemau. 

Asesiad crynodol: Bydd arholiad (80%) yn asesu'r deilliannau dysgu trwy ddatrys problemau a chyfrifiadau cemegol mecanyddol ac adeileddol. Dylid defnyddio perthnasedd y canlyniadau hyn i esbonio prosesau biolegol a dulliau dadansoddi cemegol. Bydd sgiliau chwilio ac adalw gwybodaeth yng nghyd-destun y deilliannau dysgu yn cael eu hasesu drwy ymarfer gweithdy (20%). 

Y CYFLE AR GYFER AILASESIAD YN Y MODIWL HWN: 

Cynhelir asesiadau pob modiwl sy’n cael ei ailsefyll yn y cyfnod Ailsefyll Arholiadau, sef cyn dechrau’r sesiwn academaidd ddilynol. 

Carbohydradau 

Strwythur siwgrau aldos a cetos. Mae pyranos a ffwranos yn ffurfio siwgrau, anomerau alffa a beta, a'r effaith anomerig. Cynrychiolaeth o garbohydradau fel amcanestyniadau Fischer, Haworth, "igam ogam" a Mills. Adeiledd glycosidau a'u hydrolysis cemegol ac ensymatig, profion ar gyfer rhydwytho siwgrau. 

Rolau adeileddol a signalu a chwaraeir gan garbohydradau mewn bioleg. 

Glycolysis 

Newidiadau egni rhydd Gibbs a rolau ATP wrth lywio adweithiau biocemegol yng nghyd-destun glycolysis. Rôl NAD+/NADH a cydffactorau eraill mewn adweithiau rhydocs. Adweithedd thioesterau ac adweithiau allweddol fel hydrolysis. 

Camau glycolysis a mecanweithiau'r trawsnewidiadau biolegol allweddol. 

Cylch Asid Citrig 

Synthesis asetyl CoA (cydensym A) gan y cymhlygyn pyrwfad dadhydrogenas a rôl thiamin pyroffosffad. 

Rhyngolynnau yn y cylch asid citrig a mecanweithiau'r trawsnewidiadau cemegol. Amlinelliad o'r gadwyn cludo electronau a synthesis ATP. 

Asidau Amino 

Strwythur a stereocemeg asidau amino alffa a ochr-gadwynau’r asidau amino proteinogenig. 

Grwpiau gweithredol ochr-gadwynau, polaredd, pKa a gwefr ar pH 7. 

Gallu ochr-gadwynau i ymgymryd â rhyngweithiadau (bondio hydrogen, rhyngweithiadau hydroffobig, bondio ïonig). 

Proteinau a Pheptidau 

Cyddwyso asidau amino i ddipeptidau, polypeptidau a phroteinau, ac (yn fyr) arwyddocâd biolegol y moleciwlau hyn a dadansoddi polypeptidau. 

Rôl thiamin pyroffosffad a ffosffad pyridocsal (PLP) ym miosynthesis asidau amino.  

Rhestr Darllen ac Adnoddau 

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 8fed argraffiad, David L. Nelson a Michael M. Cox, W. H. Freeman, ISBN-13: 978-1-31-922800-2 

Organic Chemistry, 2il argraffiad, J Clayden, N Greeves, S Warren, Gwasg Prifysgol Rhydychen, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0199270293 

Biochemistry, 9fed argraffiad, Jeremy M. Berg, John L. Tymoczko, Lubert Stryer, W. H. Freeman ISBN-13: 978-1-31-911465-7  

The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways, 2il argraffiad, J. E. McMurry, T. P. Begley, MacMillan, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1-936221-56-1 

The Year Abroad allows you to deepen and broaden your understanding of your degree subject by undertaking a research placement in a different country, approaching your research and understanding of the topic through other cultural and intellectual lenses.    

A year abroad may not only benefit and enrich your studies, but it also offers a significant personal and professional development opportunity: you will experience living in a different country and studying in a different culture, which may grow your confidence and independence, and many employers look for graduates with the wider experiences and intercultural sensitivity that a placement year abroad can provide. 

In addition to continuing to be a Cardiff University student, you will also be a member of your study abroad partner organisation. You will have access to the study abroad partners organisation’s support resources with all the benefits of working in a different country, approaching your studies through other cultural and intellectual lenses. 

Remember:  

While you are undertaking your Year of Study Abroad, you need to make sure you have completed the following: 

• Enrolment at Cardiff: Confirmation of enrolment for your Cardiff University programme should be no later than 14 days after the start of study in any academic year in line with the requirements of Student Study and Engagement Regulations. 

• Enrolment at the study abroad partner should be no later than four weeks after the commencement of your Year of Study Abroad.  

• Communication with your school.  Keep in touch!  If you have any correspondence from your school, or requests to get in touch with them, it is really important you engage. After three unsuccessful requests from your school, the Overseas Placement Co-Ordinator or Head of School may start the Student Non-Engagement Procedure. 

• Gain a broader knowledge of your subject discipline(s) by acquiring an understanding of how the academic study of your subject(s) is organised and practiced at an institution outside the UK 

• Demonstrate the ability to adapt to the academic practices of your subject specialism(s) in an institution outside the UK 

• Carry out independent study and further develop self-study techniques.   

• Gain personal skills that will enhance your employability.  

You will undertake a research placement in a partner institution. Your placement will primarily consist of project work. You will work with a supervisor appointed by the partner organisation who will direct your project work.  

• Independence, as you move to and take responsibility for your learning in a new cultural environment.   

• Academic skills in applying new ways of thinking to your academic studies.   

• Time management as you manage your own study programme.   

• Self-reflexivity as you reflect on the benefits of studying abroad on your personal, intellectual, and professional development.   

• Enhanced interpersonal skills as you adapt to a different social and/or cultural contexts, often where English is not the first language.   

• Resilience in adapting to life and study in a new cultural environment   

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:   

1. Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

2. Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

3. Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

4. Listen to and take account of the views of others. 

5. Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

6. Contribute to discussions, negotiate and present with impact. 

7. Deliver, accept and act on constructive feedback.  

8. Consider own personal and professional ethical, social and environmental responsibilities. 

9. Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence. 

10. Understand organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the community. 

11. Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

12. Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

13. Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

14. Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

15. Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

16. Understanding organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the economy 

17. Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

18. Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

19. Engage with new ideas, opportunities and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:       

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: 

• Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture  

• Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 

• Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls 

• Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all 

• Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 

The opportunity for reassessment in this module: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme. If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme. You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period.  

All resit assessments will be held in the first available Examination period after the Examining Board.  

Students who are permitted by the Examining Board to be reassessed in this module, will need to resubmit each failed component of the module (report, video presentation and/or placement review) during the next available Examination Period. 

BSc Medicinal Chemistry students on placement in industry are enrolled on this module during their year out. The Industrial Training for Medicinal Chemists module offers an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the professional world, spending a year working within the pharmaceutical or wider chemical industries. This hands-on experience allows students to apply their academic knowledge in real-world settings, engaging in roles such as research and development, quality control, quality assurance, and analytical chemistry. Throughout the placement, students will develop their ability to contribute effectively within teams, build professional skills and work on real-world problems. This enhances employability by providing genuine work experience that boosts CVs to help stand out in the competitive graduate jobs market. 

• Describe and present the objectives, methods and outcomes of an industrial placement in oral and written form.  

• Retrieve and communicate data, findings and procedures from a variety of sources.  

• Analyse a topic to give a discussion and critical assessment of the significant issues.  

• Devise and execute a complex plan of work towards a goal.  

• Analyse and interpret findings and use these to predict behaviour with which to inform future work.  

• Adapt to professional working practices in an industrial setting.  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team. 

Students take this module whilst undertaking a placement in industry, of minimum 9 month duration.  It consists primarily of work supervised by the placement provider. The work is described in a Written report, Video presentation and Placement review.  

ntellectual skills 

• Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgement in evaluating sources of information  

• Analysis of an advanced topic, discussion and critical assessment of the significant issues;  

• Planning, and executing a complex activity;  

Chemistry-specific skills  

• Searching and selecting from the literature, discussing it critically in the context of the work undertaken;  

• Conducting extended work at a chemical sciences-using placement provider;  

• Recording of all working notes in an appropriate manner with reference to risk and hazard information where applicable;  

Transferable skills 

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences;   

• Organisation and presentation of oral and written reports;  

• Adapt to working in an unfamiliar culture;  

• Learn from others in a work-based environment  

Employability skills:     

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:   

1. Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset. 

2. Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities. 

3. Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience. 

4. Listen to and take account of the views of others. 

5. Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences. 

6. Contribute to discussions, negotiate and present with impact. 

7. Deliver, accept and act on constructive feedback.  

8. Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability and competence. 

9. Understand organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the community. 

10. Identify, define and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information. 

11. Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

12. Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures. 

13. Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems. 

14. Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

15. Understanding organisations, their stakeholders and their impact on the economy 

16. Demonstrate resilience, adaptability and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change. 

17. Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts. 

18. Engage with new ideas, opportunities and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:       

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: 

• Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages 

• Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all 

The module will be assessed via coursework including a written report, a video presentation, and an essay reviewing the placement.  

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR REASSESSMENT IN THIS MODULE: 

Opportunities for re-assessment is only permitted provided you have not failed more credit than in the resit rule adopted by your programme.  If the amount of credit you have failed is more than permitted by the relevant resit rule, you may be permitted to repeat study if you are within the threshold set for the Repeat rule adopted by your programme.  You will be notified of your eligibility to resit/repeat any modules after the Examining Board in the Summer period. 

All resit assessments will be held in the first available Examination period after the Examining Board. 

Students who are permitted by the Examining Board to be reassessed in this module, will need to resubmit each failed component of the module (report, video presentation and/or placement review) during the next available Examination Period.  

The placement experience will be undertaken in the industrial host approved by the placement scheme coordinator. This will be carried out on a time scale appropriate for the particular placement, but is expected to take about 1200 hours of student time, including all literature work, project work, preparation of presentation and written report. 

The placement must provide opportunities for independent thought and project work although it is recognised that the nature of the host’s work may require students to undertake directed work related to the host’s business. 

The main report will be supplemented by a short placement review, describing the particular environment of the placement - aspects of cultural differences in the host institution, skills development during the placement and business aspects of the company.  

Regular contact will be maintained throughout, primarily through the personal tutor, with involvement by the placement coordinator as necessary.   

BSc students on placement overseas are enrolled on this module.  

It consists of a substantial project on a chemical sciences topic conducted at an overseas placement provider.  

You will submit a written report and video that discusses your placement experience.  

These will be supplemented by a placement review which provides a reflective account of skills development over the course of the placement.  

Satisfactory performance is required for the award of the degree, and the mark awarded contributes 10% to the overall degree classification. 

• Describe and present the objectives, methods, and outcomes of a project in oral and written form. 

• Retrieve and communicate data, findings, and procedures from a variety of sources. 

• Analyse a topic to give a discussion and critical assessment of the significant issues. 

• Devise and execute a complex plan of work towards a goal. 

• Adapt to professional working practices in an industrial or overseas setting. 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team. 

Students undertake a placement in a partner institution overseas, of 9 - 12 months duration.  

It consists primarily of project work supervised by a staff member at the placement provider.  

The project results are presented in a written report, Video presentation and Placement review. 

Employability skills:    

This module is delivered and aligns with the following University Graduate Attributes:    

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence.  

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals  

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen.  

• Be confident in pursuing entrepreneurship as a visible and rewarding career path.  

• Understanding organisations, their stakeholders, and their impact on the economy  

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future.  

• Set aspirational goals for continuing personal and professional development, planning effectively with a commitment to lifelong learning. 

Graduate Attributes – Assessment:    

 Coursework - Report                  

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

 Coursework – Video Presentation 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

 Coursework – Placement Review     50% 

• Contribute positively and effectively when working in a team, having an impact from the outset.  

• Demonstrate enthusiasm and the ability to motivate themselves, and positively influence others in meeting agreed responsibilities.  

• Be respectful of the roles of others and acknowledge the limits of their own skills/experience.  

• Listen to and take account of the views of others.  

• Communicate complex ideas effectively to diverse audiences.  

• Contribute to discussions, negotiate, and present with impact.  

• Deliver, accept, and act on constructive feedback.  

• Take a professional approach to communication, including their own online/social media profiles, and be alert to how words and actions may be interpreted.  

• Consider own personal and professional ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities.  

• Demonstrate personal and professional integrity, reliability, and competence. 

• Be mindful of the Climate Emergency and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 

• Identify, define, and analyse complex issues and ideas, exercising critical judgment in evaluating sources of information.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and engage in the pursuit of new knowledge and understanding. 

• Investigate problems and offer effective solutions, reflecting on and learning from successes and failures.  

• Generate original ideas and apply creative, imaginative, and innovative thinking in response to identified needs and problems.  

• Take the initiative to act on own ideas and the ideas of others, balancing risk and returns and making things happen. 

• Actively reflect on own studies achievements and self-identity  

• Demonstrate resilience, adaptability, and creativity in dealing with challenges, and be open to change.  

• Identify and articulate own skills, knowledge and understanding confidently and in a variety of contexts.  

• Engage with new ideas, opportunities, and technologies, building knowledge and experience to make informed decisions about own future. 

Sustainable Development Goals:     

This module is delivered and aligns in working towards the following Sustainable Development Goals: 

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation