General Chemistry 1
- Textbook: General Chemistry - Principles and Modern Applications (11th edition) by R.H. Petrucci, F.G. Herring. J.D. Madura, and C. Bissonnette (published by Prentice Hall, 2016). The material covered in this course corresponds to chapters 1-11 of this text.
- Also offered online in certain terms.
- Successful completion of Grade 12 U Calculus and Vectors and Grade 12 U Chemistry or equivalent courses is recommended.
CHEM 120 begins with a review of stoichiometry with application to compounds, mixtures, solutions, and chemical reactions, followed by an introduction to Green Chemistry principles and metrics including atom economy and the E-factor. The second part of this course is concerned with explaining periodicity and trends in chemical reactivity in terms of the electronic structure of atoms and molecules. Topics covered in this part of the course include: the quantum theory of the hydrogen atom; electron configurations in multi-electron atoms; ionic and covalent bonding; Lewis structures, valence shell electron repulsion theory and molecular geometry; quantum mechanical bonding theories, including valence bond theory and molecular orbital theory. Additional topics may include an introduction to electron-transfer reactions, including the assignment of oxidation states and the balancing of oxidation-reduction reactions.
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