701-1314-00L Environmental Organic Chemistry
| Semester | Spring Semester 2019 |
| Lecturers | K. McNeill, T. Hofstetter, M. Sander |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Abstract | This course is focused on environmental transformation reactions of organic chemical contaminants. An overview of important fate processes of organic pollutants will be given, along with a discussion of the factors that determine pathways and rates of transformation reactions. Special emphasis will be given to redox transformations, photochemical reactions, and enzyme-catalyzed processes. |
| Learning objective | The students will - further their knowledge of important classes of environmentally relevant organic compounds - become familiar with the tools for studying reaction mechanisms - learn the fundamentals of environmental photochemistry - obtain a detailed understanding of redox reactions of pollutants and biogeochemically important species - get a survey of important enzymatic transformations - learn to critically evaluate published data |
| Content | - Methods and tools used in the study of reaction mechanisms and kinetics - Environmental photochemistry, including direct and indirect photolysis - Redox properties of important environmental phases and redox reactions of organic pollutants - Enzyme-catalyzed reactions involved in environmentally important enzymatic processes |
| Lecture notes | Materials that are needed beyond the required text will be distributed in the lecture. |
| Literature | Schwarzenbach, R.P., P.M. Gschwend, and D.M. Imboden. Environmental Organic Chemistry. 3rd Ed. Wiley, New York (2016). |
| Prerequisites / Notice | Introduction to Environmental Organic Chemistry, Bachelor 5th semester, M. Sander, K. McNeill |