**IMPORTANT NOTICE**

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This paper outline has been provided early to assist your decision in selecting papers. The details (e.g. lecture order and test dates and times) are subject to change. Please check back at the beginning of the semester to any changes and see the Moodle page for further details on the course.

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This paper is a theoretical and practical course designed to provide a basic grounding in aspects of chemistry that are required for a Chemistry major, or students wanting to take higher level ‘core’ chemistry papers in Analytical or Inorganic Chemistry.

In this paper, analytical methods are explored, including the important role played by statistics and errors when the collection of data is involved. The analytical techniques are chosen to be those that have importance in modern chemistry, with a strong focus on spectroscopic techniques, including UV-visible spectroscopy, elemental analysis techniques, Infrared spectroscopy and NMR spectroscopy. As part of the course, students will gain hands-on experience in the operation of analytical instrumentation.

This paper will also cover structure and bonding (including atomic and molecular structure, periodic properties of the elements, and chemical bonding) as well as equilibria.

Students will develop skills in the writing of laboratory reports as part of this paper.

This paper is taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials and laboratory sessions. Chemistry is an inherently practical subject and there is a focus on students gaining the necessary laboratory skills to be successful in Chemistry.

Lectures

Lectures are held three times per week and are recorded using Panopto software. These recordings can be accessed at any time via the online learning platform (Moodle), via the course Moodle page. Recorded lectures will be very useful as a study aid, or in cases of illness or other unavoidable absence, or to cover timetable clash(es), however they should not be considered as a long-term alternative to attending lectures. We cannot guarantee that all lectures are successfully recorded as occasional technology issues can arise.

Laboratories

Laboratory sessions begin in the first week of trimester. Students must attend their allocated laboratory session unless they have written documentation (e.g. medical certificate) explaining why they couldn’t attend their normal session.

You will be assigned to one of the laboratory periods, which will be held each week throughout the A trimester.

In the first week of the trimester, an important safety induction will be carried out. In this week, you should try to attend your regular laboratory session. However, if this is not possible (e.g. due to late enrollment) you can attend any lab session in the first week. All students MUST attend one laboratory session in the first week, so that the safety induction is completed. Any student enrolling in the course after the first week should contact Martina Pietsch Brown in order to arrange a separate induction. Laboratory work cannot be started until a safety induction has been done.

Please note that the number of lab streams used will depend on the number of enrollments.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide a less formal setting to discuss general questions, laboratory reports and homework problems from the lectures as well as test and exam questions.

These sessions are student driven, allowing you to choose what content is covered.

The Wednesday tutorial is a 'super tutorial' which is a drop in session for all first year science papers.

The Friday tutorial is a dedicated CHEMY101 session.

You are strongly encouraged to attend tutorials, since this provides a forum for small group discussions of lecture and laboratory content, as well as problems, quizzes and past test papers.

Note on the University timetable:

Events starting in the morning, up to and including 12:00 commence on the hour. Events starting in the afternoon, starting from 13:00 actually commence at ten minutes past the hour, i.e. a lecture timetabled at 13:00 actually commences at 13:10.

Other resources:

Lecture notes can either be downloaded and printed from the Moodle page, or alternatively a bound set of lecture notes can be purchased from Waikato Print for the first six weeks of lecture material. The laboratory manual can either be self-printed, or a bound copy purchased.

Lectures will be recorded using Panopto, though we are unable to guarantee the quality or even existence of recordings in the unlikely event that serious technical issues arise.

For those students planning to continue in Chemistry, to CHEMY102 Chemical Reactivity, and CHEMY201 Organic Chemistry and CHEMY203 Inorganic Chemistry, a molecular model kit will be a valuable tool for the three-dimensional visualisation of molecules.