Undergraduate Courses

104 GENERAL CHEMISTRY

 

Category: Mandatory
Class Hours: 4
Tutorial Hours: 2
ECTS: 6
Course Type: Core Knowledge
Prerequisite Courses:
Language of Teaching and Exams: Greek
Is the course offered to ERASMUS students:  Yes (In English)

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Course Curriculum:

  • Chemistry and modern life. Basic concepts.
  • Types of bodies, Properties, States of matter, Gas laws, Solutions, Content of solutions, Solubility.
  • pH - Buffer Solutions.
  • Atom structure, Isotopes, Molecules, Chemical formulas, Chemical units of mass, Molecularity. Atomic theory, Quantum numbers, Electronic structure, Periodic table, Atomic radius, Ionization energy, Electroaffinity, Electronic types of atoms-molecules.
  • Chemical bonds, Valence, Oxidation Number.
  • Classification of inorganic compounds and their nomenclature, Theories about acids and bases, Acids-bases-salts, Properties, Chemical equations. Chemical thermodynamics, Chemical kinetics, Reaction rate, Rate law, Catalysis, Classification of chemical reactions.
  • Chemical equilibrium, Law of chemical equilibrium.
  • Introduction to Organic Chemistry.
  • Naming of Organic Compounds.
  • Structure of Organic Compounds and Bonds. Overview of Organic Reactions.
  • Alkanes, Cycloalkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes. Alkyl halides.
  • Conjugated Dienes, Benzene and Aromaticity
  • Alcohols and Phenols. Ethers. Aldehydes. Ketones.
  • Carboxylic acids.
  • Introduction to Biomolecules.

Literature:

1. R. Chang, J. Overby, General Chemistry, Papazisi Publications, 2021, Eudoxus Code: 102074446
2. G. Pneumaticakis, C. Mitsopoulou, K. Methenitis, Basic principles of inorganic chemistry, Unibooks IKE Publications, 2006, Eudoxus Code: 59396599
3. D. Ebbing, S. Gammon, MODERN GENERAL CHEMISTRY (10th International Edition), Travlos and SIA OE Publications, 2014, Eudoxus Code: 41964283
4. T. Brown, E. Lellay, B. Bursten, P. Woodward, M. Stoltzfus, General Chemistry, Giola Publications, 2015, Eudox Code: 50655974
5. M. Konsolakis, General Chemistry, Banani Publications, 2008, Eudoxus Code: 22791796

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