44256 - Environmental Inorganic Chemistry

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Rita Mazzoni
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: CHIM/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Technologies for the Environment and Materials (cod. 8514)

Learning outcomes

The course is aimed at giving fundamentals in the field of inorganic environmental chemistry. The aim is to gain awareness of environmental consequences of inorganic compounds associated  to human activities.

Course contents

The course is aimed at acquiring basic knowledge in the field of inorganic chemistry concerning environmental aspects. The aim is to gain awareness of environmental consequences of inorganic compounds due to human activities, for example concerning energy production from fossil fuels and from alternative resources. Some basic knowledge in the field of organometallic chemistry will be provided in order to understand the environmental impact due to increasing diffusion of compounds with metal-carbon bonds, introduced in commercial products and industrial processes. Fundamentals concerning bioinorganic chemistry will be presented to understand some aspects of the interaction between inorganic compounds and living systems.

Readings/Bibliography

Chimica Ambientale - Colin Baird Michael Cann - III Edizione Zanichelli

Chimica Inorganica (principi, strutture, reattività) - J.E. Huheey, E.A. Keiter, R.L. Keiter - Ed. Piccin

Chimica degli elementi - N. N. Greenwood, A. Earnshaw - Ed. Piccin

Teaching methods

The course includes class lectures and tutorial activities. Lectures are supported by slide projection. Class discussion is encouraged.

Assessment methods

The course is aimed to reach the subsequent objective:

The student should acquire the skill of correlating chemicals reactivity, in particular metallic ions with the environmet behaviour applying the main concepts previously aquired (e.g.: acid-base equilibria, redox reactions, precipitations, dissolution and so on).

The student should acquire the skill of correlating metals interactions (both exential and toxic) with humans.

Final exam: Students are required to produce a short report on one topic of his/her interest strictly linked to the course aim (to be sent to Professor in due advance). The subject will be orally presented, with the help of a power point presentation, during one of the scheduled session at the end of the course. After the presentation of his/her work a discussion will be open with the aim of evaluate the student in function of the skills above described both with question on the proposed subject and with question on the course program.

The mark will be between 0-30. In order to pass the exam a mark >=18 is required.

In order to give the exam the student have to sign trhough "Alma Mater" strictly within the expiring dates. The exam will be registrered in the day in which the oral exam has been passed.

Teaching tools

Teaching supports include PowerPoint presentations.

Documents and slides shown are made available to students at http://campus.unibo.it (user name and password will be available from the teacher during the first lesson). Bibliographic references and net resources will be given if different from recommended books.

Self-assessment will be encouraged by the use of multimedia applications such as "socrative".

Office hours

See the website of Rita Mazzoni