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| CHIM0310-3 | chemistry preparing to biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences
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| Duration : | 60h Th, 20h Pr, 20h QA Sess., 20h REM |
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| Holder(s) : | Pierre Colson |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | Topics : general (I), structural (II) and organic (III) chemistry.
Part I : Aggregation states of the matter, solution properties, pH, kinetics, chemical equilibria, thermodynamics, redox reactions and examples related to biomedical sciences.
Part II : Atomic structure, chemical bondings and structural analysis
Part III : General characteristics of organic compounds and their main reactions, polyfunctional derivatives, aromatic hydrocarbons and derivatives, synthetic polymers and biopolymers. |
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| Course objective : | - Acquire the basic tools of chemistry and biochemistry
- Check the basic knowledges
- Check the reasoning ability, the learning and understanding of the topics (this aim is very important for all lectures of the cursus).
The lecture is oriented towards the applications to life sciences as the aim of this lecture is to purchase to the students the basic tools in order to enable them to sense their use in the chemistry and biochemistry lectures. |
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| Prerequisites : | Knowledge of some backgrounds of chemistry of the secondary level. |
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| Workshops : | 5 laboratories of 4h are programmed to enable the students to apply and sense by themselves the practical involvements of the theoretical lecture. These laboratories consist of the applications of pH, titrations, kinetics, redox reactions and spectrophotometric measurements. One of the 5 laboratories is devoted to the identification of the functions in organic chemistry |
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| Organization : | The lecture is distributed among the first two quadrimesters but according an asymmetric way (45h at the 1st quadrimester and 15 h at the second one), i.e. two lectures of 1h45 every week at the 1st quadrimester and the remaining lectures during the second quadrimester. |
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| Written notes : | Lecture notes :
They are sold at the first lecture. They consit of two books entitled "La Chimie pour les Sciences de la Vie" (2003) : C. Houssier and P. Colson
1st part : Chimie générale et inorganique
2nd part : Structures atomiques et moléculaires
3rd part : Chimie organique
The two last parts consist of the second book.
Resumed tables and multiple choice questions with explained answers (+ eventually CD-Rom of interactive chemistry) are also available.
Two books putting together the copies of the transparencies used during the lectures are also available. |
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| Assessment : | The first problem examination will be organized during the first quadrimester (at the beginning of December); the topics will involve the chapters 1-7.The student who will get a quotation higher than or equal to 10/20 for this part will be exempted of it during the whole academic year.
The first general examination is occurring during January and will cover the nine first chapters. It will be divided in two parts: the first one will involve theory and the second one will concern exercises. These two parts will give distinct exemptions. The theory will consist of two parts : the first part concerns questions with multiple choice (20 questions with 5 choices , only one of which is right) quoted on 20, and the second part involves open questions also quoted on 20. Numerical exercices can also appear in the open and multiple choice questions. The global quotation for the theory will be weighted by the following way : 2/5 for multiple choice questions and 3/5 for open questions. The students who will get a quotation higher than or equal to 10/20 will be exempted of this part of the course during the whole academic year. This quotation will take place for 30% in the averaged final quotation (see later). It is not possible to get a partial exemption for one of the two parts of this examination.
The problem examination will also consist of two parts : The first one about chapters 1-7 (for students who failed in december); the second one about chapters 8-9 (for all the students, excepted the students who got a complete exemption for the chemistry course or an exemption for these parts of problems, what does mean a quotation higher than or equal to 12/20). The students who will get a quotation higher than or equal to 10/20 for one (or two) part(s) will be exempted for the first and second session..
All the students, who did not succeed in the examinations, will be informed individually (according to their request) about the quality of their examinations. For the students who failed these examinations, the results will not be taken into account and 20h of remediation will be organized during the second quadrimester.
The examinations in June as well as in September will be only written ones. It will cover the two books, except for the students exempted from the first book. It will occur by the following way : multiple choice and open questions (1/2 day), exercises and written laboratory examination (1/2 day). Multiple choice questions will be divided into two parts : one about the first book (except for the exempted students) and another one about the second book (for all students). The open questions will also cover the two books, or only the second one (for the exempted students). The written laboratory examination will enable to determine the global quotation of the laboratory, also taking into account the experimental work during the year.
The final quotation for the non exempted students will be calculated by the following way :
25% for exercises + laboratories
45% for open questions
30% for multiple choice questions
For the exempted students,
25% for exercises + laboratories
30% for the successfull examination in January (multiple choice + open questions)
30% for the open questions about the second book
15% for the multiple choice questions about the second book
The global quotation (averaged to 20 with two digits) is sent to the secretary of the jury. |
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| Contacts : | Pierre COLSON, Chargé de Cours
Chemistry Department
Biospectroscopy and Physical Chemistry Unit- Office : 3/73B
Chemistry Institute (B6c) Sart-Tilman 4000-Liège 1 (Belgium)
Call : 00 32 (0)4/366.34.06
Fax : 00 32 (0)4/366.45.77
E-mail : P.Colson@ulg.ac.be |
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