Personal Protective Equipment (Practicals)
Laboratory Coat
Safety Glasses

The textbook for Chemistry IA/B is 'Chemistry', 5th edition, Blackman et al., (Wiley) and it is recommended that students acquire their own copy.

Additional notes may be issued for individual sections of the course.

Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, Richard Langley, William R. Robinson (2019), Chemistry 2e (Openstax)

John McMurry (2023), Organic Chemistry (OpenStax)

These are free open-source textbook that can be downloaded as a pdf, epub or viewed directly on the web from https://openstax.org/books/chemistry-2e/
https://openstax.org/books/organic-chemistry/


Other sources for recommended reading may be provided by lecturers on an as-needed basis.

It is important that all students maintain active communication channels with the Chemistry Discipline throughout the course. The primary communication channels from the Discipline to students are MyUni and email.

The University's online learning management system, MyUni (https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au), will be used to provide students with a variety of learning resources, including (but not limited to) the following:

This course is delivered by the following means:

• Lectures 36 x 50-minute sessions with three sessions per week
• Workshops 11 x 50-minute sessions with one session per week
• Practical 6 x 3-hour sessions with one session per fortnight

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course, such as this, should expect to spend, on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading and revision).

The course content includes the following:

Part 1 - Energy and Equilibrium. The relevance of intermolecular forces, chemical equilibrium, energy considerations and chemical reactivity applied to aspects of chemistry and biochemistry.

Part 2 - Kinetics and Electrochemistry. Aspects of kinetics and electrochemical processes.

Part 3 - Synthetic and Bio-organic Chemistry. An introduction to chemical synthesis with particular reference to addition and substitution reactions. Strategies for synthesis and properties of biologically significant molecules will also be addressed.

Online summative assignments (20% of final course grade)
Four online summative assignments (each worth a total of 4% of the overall course grade) will be used to assess progressive understanding of course material. Students receive instant feedback on submission.

A further 4% will be derived from workshop preparation. Each workshop will have one question from the set of provided problems assigned for students to complete prior to the session.  This question will be marked in class by the workshop leader to provide feedback.

Lecture Tests (10% of final course grade)
There will be two lecture tests each semester, worth 5% each, making up 10% in total of your final grade for the course each semester. Lecture tests will occur around the halfway mark and towards the end of each semester. Lecture tests may consist of multiple choice or numerical answer questions or a combination of these.

Practical work: (20% of final course grade)
Practical reports will be handed in fortnightly and promptly assessed to provide continual feedback to students and a sense of progressive accomplishment in the course. All practicals have an associated summative online task that students complete before their laboratory class.

Examination: (50% of final course grade)
An end-of-semester written examination will be used to summatively assess understanding of the course material. The examination will consist of a combination of multiple choice/numerical answer questions and short answer questions.

Online Practice Exercises: (0% of final course grade)
Students will be provided with a series of online practice exercises to enable them to test their understanding of the course material. Students receive instant feedback on submission and will be able to retake any question (or exercise as a whole) as many times as they wish.

Submission of Assigned Work
A lab report book will be provided in the first practical session. Before practical reports are submitted, students must ensure they have signed and dated the Plagiarism and Collusion declaration at the front of the report book. Note that report books must not be removed from the laboratory.

Extensions for Assessment Tasks
Extensions of deadlines for assessment tasks may be allowed for reasonable causes. Such situations would include compassionate and medical grounds of the severity that would justify the awarding of a supplementary examination. Evidence for the grounds must be provided when an extension is requested. Students are required to apply for an extension to the Course Coordinator before the assessment task is due. Extensions will not be provided on the grounds of poor prioritising of time. The assessment extension application form can be obtained from: http://www.sciences.adelaide.edu.au/current/ 

Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply.  A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that the assignment is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days late or more without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the marks available for that assignment.