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CHM346: Physical Chemistry II

Semester: Spring 2012

• Exam Dates (Held from 8AM - 11AM in CH217)
  • Exam I: Tuesday Feb 21
  • Exam II: Tuesday Apr 3
  • Exam III: Tuesday May 1

• Homework Sets:
  1. due Jan 21 solutions
  2. due Jan 31 solutions
  3. due Feb 07 solutions
  4. due Feb 14 solutions
  5. due Mar 13 solutions
  6. due Mar 20 solutions
  7. due Mar 29 solutions
  8. due Apr 17 solutions
  9. due Apr 24 solutions
  10. due May 01 solutions

• Review Problem Sets:
  • Exam 2 Review, Spring 2012: questions answers

• Important Laboratory Information:
  1. Lab Safety Information (you will be quizzed on this)
  2. Sample Laboratory Notebook Pages
  3. MSDS from HAZARD.COM

• Laboratory Assignments:
  1. Critical Analysis of Sulfur Hexafluoride
     • handout
     • device
     • Written report due Friday Feb 3

  2. C-13 FT-NMR Study of a Substituted Benzene Compound
     • handout
     • example HCCOSW spectrum
     • Submit lab notebook at or before first exam

  3. Energy of Isomerization: Bomb Calorimetry of Azulene and Naphthalene
     • handout
     • written report due Friday Mar 23

  4. Kinetics Experiment: Deuteration of 5-methoxyindan
     • handout
     • answers to analysis questions with supporting graphs due Thursday May 3

• WebMO-Pro Computational Server:
  • Webmo 10: Click to Run Gaussian

• Class Handouts:
  • Areas of Physical Chemistry
  • Properties of Selected Nuclei
  • Formulae for Energies and Partition Functions
  • Formulae for Real Gas Manipulations
  • Free Energy and Efficiency

• Previous Exams:
  Handout for Exams
  • Spring 2010
    Exam I: Questions, Solutions
    Exam II: Questions, Solutions
    Final: Questions, Solutions

Archive of Previously Used Material Below this line you will find links to items that were used in this course in the past. They may or may not be relevent to the current semester.

• Old Laboratory Handouts:
  • C-13 NMR Lab
  • Bomb Calorimetry Lab
  • Instructions for Manual Operation of the Bomb
  • Kinetics: Deuteration of Naphthalene
  • Computational Lab (Menshutkin Reaction Study)
  • View to see an SN2 reaction: 1, 2, 3

• This course may require you to select an article from the current Physical Chemistry Literature and discuss it in great detail at the level of the students in this course. Much background material will need to be included. Reproducing some of the research is also greatly encouraged. Criticism of the work is also needed. Click below to see examples of papers submitted in the past:
  • Michelle Ludlow, YCP '05

  • Brian Harkins, YCP '00

  • Howard Levin, YCP '04

• Calorimetry:
  • Sample Thermograms
• UV-VIS Spectra of Transition Metal Complexes:
  • Jeremy Beck, Spring 2004, Co(acac)3 picture
  • Jaci Hutchinson, Spring 2004, Co(acac)3
  • Aleksey Pisarenko, Spring 2003, Co(acac)3
• C-13 NMR Study of Nitroaniline Compounds:
  • Jaci Hutchinson, Spring 2004, N-methyl-4-nitroaniline C13
  • Jen Brown, Spring 2004, 5-methyl-2-nitroaniline CH spectrum
  • Lisa Stojowski: o-nitroaniline analysis
• Critical Point Analysis of Sulfur Hexafluoride:
  • Michelle Ludlow, Spring 2004, Second-Virial Fit
  • Michelle Ludlow, Spring 2004, Summary Graph
  • John Knox, Fall 98
  • PBE1PBE data for Dimer Potential
  • PW91PW91 data for Dimer Potential
• Bomb Calorimetry of Azulene and Naphthalene:
  • Pat Gallagher, Fall 98
• Oscillating Chemical Reactions:
  • Jon Leake, Spring 2004
• Boltzmann Analysis:
  • Troy Tibbs, Fall 98
  • Julia Ballas, Fall 00
• Simulation of Liquid Argon and its Distribution Function:
  • Pat Gallagher, Fall 98
  • Pam Delp, Fall 98
• Introduction to Spreadsheets and Maple
• Boltzmann Statistics Exercise
• Simulating a box of Argon Atoms
• PDF of the Argon g(r) lab
• Vanadium Complexes: Electronic Spectral Interpretation
  • VO[H2O]5 2+ gjf file
  • VO[acac]2 gjf filee
  • VO[acac]2 hydrogens replace methyls gjf file
• UV-VIS Spectra of Cobalt Complexes
• Heat of Solution
• Oscillating Chemical Reactions