SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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MEMORANDUM
To: Senate ?
From:
Senate Committee on
Undergraduate Studies
Subject:
Department of Chemistry -
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Date:
November 6, 1985
Calendar Changes
Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies at its meeting of
October 29, 1985 gives rise to the following motion:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of
Governors, as set forth in S.85-53, the proposed new course
CHEM
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363-3 Kinetics and Mechanism"
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MEMORANDUM
To: R. Heath
Secretary to Senate
Sutj act:
Calendar Changes: Department
of CHEMISTRY
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From: P.Dobud, Administrative
Assistant to the Dean of
Science
Date:
October 16,1985
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Please find attached the documentation related to the following calendar change for the
Department of Chemistry which was approved by the Faculty of Science in its meeting held
on October 15,1985.
I would appreciate it very much if you would place this item on the agenda of the next SCUS
meeting for consideration and approval.
Ne...Course
p roposal: CHEM
363-3.
(PAPER: FSC-85-12)
That the new course CHEM
363-3;
Kinetics and Mechanism,
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he approved as
follows:
CHEM 363-3, Kinetics ?
Mechanism
Basic principles of chemical kinetics, rate laws, mechanisms, reactive
intermediates, theories of bimolecular reactions, solvent effects,
photochemistry, and experimental methods.
Prerequisites: CHEM
261
CHEM
252,
CHEM
232 AND
MATH
152;
or CHEM
362. ?
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c.c. Dr. R. Frindt, Chairman, Faculty of Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
Dr. C.H.W.Jones, Chairman, Department of Chemistry.
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MEMORANDUM
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Committee
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Date
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At its meeting of 18 January 1985 the Chemistry Department has approved the
addition of a new course, Chem. 363-3 Kinetics and Mechanism (3-1-0) to its
undergraduate curriculum.
This course is now recommended to the Faculty Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
for approval and for inclusion in the 1986/7 calendar. We are planning to offer
Chcin . 363 for the f irsi Lime in 1985-3, asstim
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lint Senate approval can be obtained
by May 1985.
Rat ionale:
In the course of re-structuring its physical chemistry program, the Chemistry
Department has recently deleted Chem. 460, 461 and 464 (the content of these three
courses will now be taught in Chem. 469: Selected Topics in Physical Chemistry) and
modified the course content of Chcm.261 (deletion of kinetics) and Chem. 362. Thes
changes have already been passed by Senate and will appear in the 1985/86 calendar.
The proposed new course will cover chemical kinetics as a method for elucidation
of reaction mechanisms. It will be available primarily to Chemistry and Biochemistry
students as an upper-level elective, but also to interested students in Physics,
Biology and related interdisciplinary areas.
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Calendar Information
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Department: Chemistry
Abbreviation Code: CHEM. Course Number:
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363 Credit Hours: 3
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Vector: 3-1-0
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
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NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM
Title of Course: KINETICS AND MECHANISM
Calendar Description of Course: Basic principles of chemical kinetics, rate
laws, mechanisms, reactive intermediates, theories of bimolecular reactions,
solvent effects, photochemistry, and experimental methods.
Nature of Course:
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
CHEM.261, CHEM.252, CHEN.232 and MATH.152; or CHEM.362.
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course
is approved:
None.
2. Scheduling
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How frequently will the course be offered? Once per year.
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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86-3
Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible? ?
A.G. Sherwood, P. Percival, T.N. Bell.
3.
Objectives of the Course
To introduce the principles of chemical kinetics and to provide the base upon
which 400 level chemistry and biochemistry courses in mechanisms and reactivity
could be based.
4. Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty: ?
None
Staff: ?
None
Library: ?
None
Audio Visual: None
Space:
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None
Equipment: ?
None
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Approval
Date: ?
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Department Chairman
Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b:-(When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.)
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CIIEM.363-3
COURSE OUTLINE
Textbook: Castellan, 3rd Edition, distributed notes, and scientific literature.
Week
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Review of differential rate laws and methods for determining them.
2,3,4
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Mechanisms, reactive intermediates (radicals, ion pairs, carhenes, excited
molecules, etc.) stationary state approximation, chain reactions,
catalysis, enzymes, experimental test of mechanisms (including stereo-
chemical and labelling methods).
5,6
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Theories of bimolecular reactions, Arrhenius' Theory, Transition state
theory, potential energy surfaces.
7 ?
Solvent effects, cage effects, primary salt effects, acid-base catalysis.
8,9
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Photochemistry as a method of producing reactive intermediates.
10,11, ?
Methods - fast flow, stopped flow, NMR lineshape analysis, flash
12,13 ?
photolysis-kinetic spectroscopy, ESR, beams, matrix Isolation, rotating
sectors.
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MEMORANDUM
R. Frindt, Chairman, Science
Faculty Underg. Curriculum Co
Subject .... .
HEM.363: Revised Prerequisites
E. Kiehlmann, Chairman
From
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Chem. Undergrad. Stud. Co
Date ........... MCh 27
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File:
C.4447,
D.74
At a recent meeting the Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee considered and
postponed its decision on the proposed new course CHEM.363, Kinetics and
Mechanism, pending clarification on whether CHEM.362 should be allowed as an
alternate prerequisite to make the course accessible to Physics and Chemical
Physics students.
I have explored this question with the physical chemistry professors who are
designated to teach this course, and their answer has been affirmative.
I am, therefore, bringing the revised course proposal form back to the committee
for approval.
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