Physical Chemistry Ii with Lab

Chemical Kinetics: Rate expressions and rate constants. First order, second order, zero order reactions. Parallel, consecutive and opposite reactions, the steady state approximation; the reaction mechanism, the rate determining step.
Temperature effects on the reaction rates: the Arrhenius equation, the collisions theory for bimolecular and unimolecular reactions; the transition state theory, potential energy surfaces, the Eyring equation, the activation parameters.
Acid-base and enzymatic catalysis. Heterogeneous catalysis: adsorption, the Langmuir-Hishelwood mechanism. Chain reactions, explosive reactions. Kinetic aspects of photoinduced reactions and of photocatalysis.
The thermodynamic description of mixtures. The basis of chemical thermodynamic. Non ideal behavior, fugacity. Phase transitions: phase stability, phase diagrams. The thermodynamics of mixing; ideal, ideal-dilute and real solutions. The activity of the solvent and of the solute. The colligative properties. Phase diagrams of binary systems: temperature-composition diagrams, liquid-liquid phase diagrams, liquid-solid phase diagrams.
Molecular interactions. Electric properties of molecules: electric dipole moments, polarizability, polarization. Interactions between dipoles, repulsive and total interactions.

Electrochemistry: Introduction to fundamental electrochemical phenomena. The structure of the double layer: Volta, surface and Galvani potentials. The models describing the double layer: Helmholtz, Gouy-Chapman, Stern. Nernst equation. The electrical capacity of the double layer. Solvent and electrolyte effects. Kinetics in electrochemistry: Butler Volmer equation, approximation at low and high overpotentials. Tafel equation. Exchange current density and symmetry factor. Diffusion limit current density.
Laboratory: Acidic hydrolysis of esters; bromination of ketones; clock reaction; enzymatic catalysis; exchange current density and symmetry factor determination for oxygen reduction reaction.