KINETICS AND SPECTROSCOPY FOR BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Stampa
Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic year
2021/2022
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
CHIM/02 (PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (01/10/2021 - 14/01/2022)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
GRANCINI GIULIA (titolare) - 3 ECTS
CAPSONI DORETTA - 3 ECTS
Prerequisites
Knowledge of general chemistry
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing additional expertise in enhancing previous background on various areas of Physical Chemistry, with particular reference to chemical kinetics and spectroscopy, and with attention to applications in biotechnology.
Course contents
Basic aspects of chemical kinetics. Complex kinetic mechanisms, steady state approximation, kinetics of enzyme catalysis, chain reactions, oscillating reactions. Computer simulation approach to complex reactions and fit of experimental data. Adsorption: basic ideas and models for the absorption isoterms.
The fundaments of FT-IR, UV, Raman and absorption spectroscopies. All these tecniques will be afforded with specific reference to examples of interest in the biotechnology field. The Bases of thermal analysis.
Experimental activity is foreseen.
Teaching methods
Lectures will be supplemented by: (i) exercises based on numerical computations for chemical kinetics; (ii) experiments on UVVIS spectroscopy.
Reccomended or required readings
The needed material will be provided by the teacher.
The lecture notes are available.
The reference textbook, limited to some chapters, is: P. Atkins, J. De Paula "Atkins' Physical Chemistry" VII Ed. Oxford University Press (2002).
Assessment methods
Oral examination: the student will make a presentation of a selected argument among those discussed in the course.
Further information
Oral examination: the student will make a presentation of a selected argument among those discussed in the course.
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