Chemistry Department, Portland State University

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT, PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY

Chemistry 441/541, Physical Chemistry Winter, 2007 Venue: SB1 304

Timetable: MWF 12:45 – 1:50 PM

Syllabus:

The chapters and page numbers referred to in this syllabus are from Physical Chemistry; A Molecular Approach; by McQuarrie and Simon (University Science Books)

Lecture No. Date Topic Pages

1 Mon, 1/7 Chemical Equilibrium; partial pressures 1049 -1082

Equilibrium constant, Le Chatelier’s principle 1053 -1057

2 Wed, 1/9 Effect of extent of reaction on Gibbs energy, Gibbs energy and spontaneity 1058 -1063

Van’t Hoff equation, variation of Keq with temperature 1063 -1067

3 Fri, 1/11 Partial fugacities, partition functions and Keq, 1068 - 1080

Keq in terms of activities 1080 – 1084

4 Mon, 1/14 Activities, solubilities 1084 – 1087

Partition functions and ideal gases 731 – 756

5 Wed, 1/16 Translational PF, electronic pf, 731 – 737

Energy of a diatomic molecule, vibrational energy levels 737 – 742

6 Fri, 1/18 Excited rotational states, symmetry numbers 742 – 747

Mon, 1/21 Martin Luther King’s Birthday, No university exercises

7 Wed, 1/23 Vibrational partition functions 747 – 752

Polyatomic molecules and their rotational partition functions 752 – 754

8 Fri, 1/25 Chemical Kinetics 1137 – 1168

Experimental and integrated rate laws 1141 – 1144

9 Mon, 1/28 First order rate laws, problems 1141 – 1148

Time-dependent behavior 1148 – 1152

10 Wed, 1/30 Reversible reactions 1152 – 1155

Relaxation Methods 1155 – 1161

11 Fri, 2/1 Relaxation Methods 1155 – 1161

Temperature dependence of reaction rates 1161 – 1164

12 Mon, 2/4 Make-up lecture

13 Wed, 2/6 Transition state theory 1165 – 1169

Reaction mechanisms 1181 – 1183

14 Fri, 2/8 Detailed balance, derivations, problems 1183 – 1186

Consecutive reactions 1187 – 1191

15 Mon, 2/11 Steady state approximations, derivation of 1191 – 1194

Complex reactions and derivation of rate law 1195 – 1198

16 Wed, 2/13 Unimolecular reactions 1198 – 1202

Chain reactions 1202 – 1205

17 Fri, 2/15 Chain reactions, cont’d 1202 – 1205

Catalysis 1206 – 1209

18 Mon, 2/18 Enzyme catalysis 1209 – 1213

Other enzyme catalysis schemes off text

19 Wed, 2/20 Autocatalysis, dynamics of off text

Oscillating reactions off text

20 Fri, 2/22 Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction off text

Mechanism of the BZ reaction off text

21 Mon, 2/25 Experimental techniques, BZ reaction off text

Data analysis, oscillatory data manipulation off text

22. Wed, 2/27 Gas Phase reaction dynamics 1229 – 1261

Hard sphere collision theory, reaction cross-section 1229 – 1237

23 Fri, 2/29 Make-up class

24 Mon, 3/3 Orientation and rate of reaction 1237 – 1239

Coordinate system 1239 – 1244

25 Wed, 3/5 Crossed Molecular beams, 1244 – 1248

Velocity and angular distribution of products 1248 – 1255

26 Fri, 3/7 Solids and surface chemistry 1271 – 1311

Unit cell 1271 – 1277

27 Mon, 3/10 Calculations, Miller indices 1277 – 1281

Lattice planes, diffraction measurements 1281 – 1284

28 Wed, 3/12 Von Laue equations 1284 – 1287

Scattering intensities 1288 – 1293

29 Fri, 3/14 Course revision

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