Department of Chemistry - Jerash University
Department of Chemistry

Course Description

Properties of liquids and solutions, Energy relationships in chemical reactions. Laws of thermodynamics. Chemical equilibrium. Chemical kinetics Acids and bases and their equilibria. Solubility equilibria.
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This course includes the following experiments with three practical hours per week: Safety rules, Laboratory equipment, and glassware tools, Determination of density and determination of the mass of volatile fluid, Separation and determination of percentages of mixture components, Specific reaction: Determination of molecular concentration of sodium hydroxide Determination of the percentage of acetic acid in commercial vinegar samples, the chemical formula of hydrate, the empirical formula of magnesium oxide, Chemicals in everyday life, properties of inorganic compounds, oxidation and reduction.
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analysis of bleaching agent, Calorimetry, Lechatelier principle, Visible spectrophotometric determination of equilibrium constant, Determination of the rate law of a chemical reaction, Titration of acidic solution, Determination of the molecular weight of unknown compound by measurement of freezing point depression of solution.
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This course covers the following topics: . Structure and bonding of organic compound, acids and bases in organic compounds, introduction to organic compound and their functional groups: alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, cycloalkanes and alkyl halides, stereochemistry, common organic reaction: substitution, addition and elimination.
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Dienes, aromatic compounds and aromaticity, electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions, physical methods for diagnosing of organic compounds (NMR, UV, IR and mass spectrometry), alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes and ketones.
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This course includes the following experiments with four practical hours per week. This course covers the following two types of experiments
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This course includes the following experiments with four practical hours per week. This course covers the following two types of experiments 1. Devices and processes: students learn how to use laboratory devices, and the basic processes in preparation for chemical reactions: melting point, simple distillation and fragmentation, steam distillation, extraction and drying materials, crystallization, adsorption chromatography 2. Methods of preparing and studying the properties of organic compounds such as: chemistry of alcohol, alkenes by dehydration, separation of products such as Caffeine of tea and coffee.
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This course introduces additional techniques of separating organic mixtures, as well as, systematic identification of organic compounds based on their: Physical, chemical and spectral properties. In addition to methods of preparing and studying the properties of organic compounds such as: chemistry of alkyl halides by substitution reactions in halogenated organic compounds, preparation of bromobenzene and nitrophenol, use of molecular models
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Inorganic chemistry (1) course giving the students knowledge related to the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry including atomic number, mass number, isotopes, Bohr's theory, an introduction to wave mechanics, wave nature of electrons, uncertainty principle, Schrödinger wave equation, atomic orbitals, quantum numbers, orbital energies in hydrogen-like species, size of orbitals, spin quantum number, magnetic spin quantum number, ground state electronic configurations, penetration and shielding, the periodic table, Aufbau principle, Hund's rule, Ionization energies, electron affinities, bonding models, Lewis structures, homonuclear diatomic molecules, valence bond (VB) theory, molecular orbital (MO) theory, the octet rule, isoelectronic species, electronegativity values, dipole moments, molecular shape, VSEPR model, hybridization of atomic orbitals, multiple bonding in polyatomic molecules, packing of spheres, metallic radii, melting points, band theory of metals and insulators, the Fermi level, sizes of ions, Born-Haber cycle, the solubility of ionic salts, properties of water, Brønsted acids and bases, trends within a series of oxoacids, hard/soft acid/base theory (HSAB), an introduction to coordination complexes, mono- and bi-dentate ligands, ambidentate ligands.
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Inorganic chemistry (2) course giving the students knowledge related to the inorganic chemistry including symmetry operations; symmetry elements; point groups; character tables; chiral molecules; Introduction to molecular symmetry; molecular orbital theory; the ligand group orbital approach and application to tri atomic molecules; molecular orbital theory applied to the polyatomic molecules; d-block metal chemistry: ground state electronic configurations; physical properties; the reactivity of the metals; characteristic properties; colour, paramagnetism, complex formation, variable oxidation state; electroneutrality principle; Coordination numbers and geometries; common ligands and nomenclature; Kepert model; coordination numbers in the solid-state; Isomerism in d-block metal complexes; bonding in d-block metal chemistry ( coordination complexes); high-and low-spin state; valence bond theory; crystal field theory; spectrochemical series; crystal field stabilization energy; Jahn-Teller distortions; molecular orbital theory ( octahedral complexes); ligand field theory; microstates and term symbols; electronic absorption and emission spectra of octahedral and tetrahedral complexes; Tanabe-Sugano diagrams; evidence for metal-ligand covalent bonding; magnetic properties; thermodynamic aspects; electronic spectra, and magnetic properties.
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