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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2023/2024

Assessment Weightage: Assessment Weightage:
Continuous assessment: 100% Continuous assessment: 50%
Final examination: - Final examination: 50%

SIC3027 RESEARCH PROJECT SIC3030 HETEROCYCLIC AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Students will carry out project works related to the BSc Program. This Introduction and classification of heterocyclic compounds; synthesis and reactions
course is to be continued for a maximum of 2 semesters. Detailed of five- and six-membered rings heteroaromatic compounds with and without ring
information about this course can be downloaded from the fusion.
Department’s website.
Basic principles of medicinal chemistry; categories of drugs and basis of drug
Assessment Weightage: action: drug-receptor model; drug design and development; drug and pro-drug
Continuous assessment: 100% metabolism; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Final examination: -
Application of selected important heterocyclic compounds in medicinal chemistry.

LEVEL 3 ELECTIVE COURSES Assessment Weightage:
Continuous assessment: 40%
SIC3028 ADVANCED ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY Final examination: 60%

Trace Analysis SIC3031 ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Introduction, techniques and limitations, considerations in
implementation of trace analysis. Sample preparation for inorganic Background of electrochemical cell, type of electrodes, liquid junction potential,
and organic compounds. Steps in total analysis, dry, wet and concentrations of electrolyte. Basic electrochemistry on electrode reaction,
microwave sample digestion, selected solid phase extraction and electrode kinetics, Butler-Volmer equation, Tafel anode and cathode equation,
liquid phase extraction technique. overpotential, mass transport and Nernst diffusion layer. Electrochemical double
layer, electrode-electrolyte interface, Faradaic and non-Faradaic currents.
Spectrometry
Atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS): atomization techniques such Potentiostatic and galvanostatic electrochemical methods including cyclic
as flame atomization, electrothermal (graphite furnace) atomization, voltammetry method in diagnostic mechanism (E, EC, CE or ECE reactions),
hydride generation technique, glow discharge atomization, cold chronoamperometry, coulometry, polarography and stripping voltammetry
vapour technique. methods.
Atomic emission spectroscopy (AES): flame, arc-spark and plasma
AES (ICP-AES), atomic fluorescence spectroscopy (AFS): principle, Surface confined electrochemical processes and applications in electroanalytical
instrumentation, excitation sources, advantages, limitations. field in sensor. Electrosynthesis in industry focus on the synthesis of inorganic
chemicals: aluminium extraction and copper purification; and electrosynthesis of
Separation Methods organic compounds (such as phthalide, cyanoacetic acids) through various
Advanced aspects on theory and process of separation in GC and methods.
HPLC, van Deemter equation, general resolution equation and HETP,
types and selection of stationary phases in GC, capillary GC, reversed Assessment Weightage:
phase HPLC, effects of mobile phases in HPLC separations, Continuous assessment: 40%
instrumentation in GC and HPLC, detectors in GC and HPLC, Final examination: 60%
hyphenated techniques: GC-MS and LC-MS. Basic principles of
capillary electrophoresis. SIC3032 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

Assessment Weightage: Introduction to Environmental Chemistry Atmosphere
Continuous assessment: 50% Characteristics, reaction and reactivities, ozone depletion, Global climate change,
Final examination: 50% Criteria pollutants, photochemical smog, Atmospheric particulates, acid rain, Toxic
air pollutants and control.
SIC3029 POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Hydrosphere
Part A: Characteristic of ocean and freshwater, distribution of chemical species (single
Polymerization and Modification of Polymer Polymerization processes variable diagram and pE-pH diagram), dissolved gases, major water quality
and mechanism (stepwise & addition polymerization). parameters, water pollution and analysis, water pollutants, water treatment.
Copolymers: Structures and properties of copolymers. Monomer
reactivity ratios. Lithosphere
Polymer structure and properties (structural isomerism & Soil formation, physical and chemical characteristic of soils, environmental
stereoisomerism). Diene monomers. problems and reactions associated with soils, solid waste management.
Modification of polymers: Chemical and physical modifications. Fate and Transport of pollutants in the environment Introduction to major analytical
Modification of polymer’s functional groups. Polymer blends. techniques for environmental analysis, including sample preparation,
spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. Data treatment. Quality control and
Part B: quality assurance.
Analysis and Characterization of Polymer
Studies on thermoanalysis (DSC & TGA) and spectroscopic analysis
(FTIR & NMR). Surface analytical techniques (ATR, XPS, FESEM
etc).

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