2017/2018

2018/2019

DM270

CHIM/02 (PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY)

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"

ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (01/10/2018 - 14/01/2019)

6

48 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CAPSONI DORETTA (titolare) - 3 ECTS
MALAVASI LORENZO - 3 ECTS

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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.

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.

Lectures will be supplemented by: (i) exercises based on numerical computations for chemical kinetics; (ii) experiments on IR spectroscopy and thermal analysis.

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).

Oral examination: the student will make a presentation of a selected argument among those discussed in the course.

Oral examination: the student will make a presentation of a selected argument among those discussed in the course.