701-1314-00L  Environmental Organic Chemistry

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Kurzbeschreibung	This course is focused on environmental transformation reactions of organic chemical contaminants. An overview of important fate processes of organic pollutants will be given, along with a discussion of the factors that determine pathways and rates of transformation reactions. Special emphasis will be given to redox transformations, photochemical reactions, and enzyme-catalyzed processes.
Lernziel	The students will - further their knowledge of important classes of environmentally relevant organic compounds - become familiar with the tools for studying reaction mechanisms - learn the fundamentals of environmental photochemistry - obtain a detailed understanding of redox reactions of pollutants and biogeochemically important species - get a survey of important enzymatic transformations - learn to critically evaluate published data
Inhalt	- Methods and tools used in the study of reaction mechanisms and kinetics - Environmental photochemistry, including direct and indirect photolysis - Redox properties of important environmental phases and redox reactions of organic pollutants - Enzyme-catalyzed reactions involved in environmentally important enzymatic processes
Skript	Materials that are needed beyond the required text will be distributed in the lecture.
Literatur	Schwarzenbach, R.P., P.M. Gschwend, and D.M. Imboden. Environmental Organic Chemistry. 3rd Ed. Wiley, New York (2016).
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Introduction to Environmental Organic Chemistry, Bachelor 5th semester, M. Sander, K. McNeill
Kompetenzen	Fachspezifische Kompetenzen Konzepte und Theorien geprüft Verfahren und Technologien gefördert Methodenspezifische Kompetenzen Analytische Kompetenzen gefördert Problemlösung gefördert Persönliche Kompetenzen Kritisches Denken gefördert Selbststeuerung und Selbstmanagement gefördert

Leistungskontrolle

Information zur Leistungskontrolle (gültig bis die Lerneinheit neu gelesen wird)
Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs
ECTS Kreditpunkte	3 KP
Prüfende	K. McNeill, T. Hofstetter, M. Sander
Form	Sessionsprüfung
Prüfungssprache	Englisch
Repetition	Die Leistungskontrolle wird in jeder Session angeboten. Die Repetition ist ohne erneute Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich.
Zulassungsbedingung	Students who do not pass the written exercises (at least three out of six) cannot take part in the final examination and must deregister from it. In cases of failure of the final oral examination and repetition thereof, students do not need to repeat the exercises.
Prüfungsmodus	mündlich 30 Minuten
Zusatzinformation zum Prüfungsmodus	A total of six exercises will be handed out over the course that students will have to work on in writing. Each student is required to hand in at least 3 of the 6 written exercises. The exercises will cover each of the lectures’ main topics (bonding/kinetics, redox thermodynamics, environmental reactants, reductions, oxidations, photochemistry). Exercises will have to be handed in within 10 days after their publication and will be assessed on a pass/no-pass basis. Students who do not pass the written exercises (at least three out of six) cannot take part in the final examination and must deregister from it. In cases of failure of the final oral examination and repetition thereof, students do not need to repeat the exercises.
Diese Angaben können noch zu Semesterbeginn aktualisiert werden; verbindlich sind die Angaben auf dem Prüfungsplan.

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