| Unit name | Technology & Automation Inspired Chemistry |
|---|---|
| Unit code | CHEMM0013 |
| Credit points | 30 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Jonathan Clayden |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | School of Chemistry |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit involves students undertaking two successive 6-week mini-projects in a Core Supervisor's laboratory. We have a large and diverse pool of world-class academics with expertise in a very wide range of synthetic chemistry, enabling the students to choose two mini-projects in: methodology, asymmetric synthesis, photochemistry, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, mechanism, carbohydrate chemistry, iron catalysis, NMR, mechanism; synthesis, biosynthesis, supramolecular, ligand synthesis, catalysis, heterocyclic synthesis, synthesis, dynamic stereochemistry, protein chemistry, synthetic biology; AI, ML, VR, protein structure, catalysis, methodology, main group chemistry, catalysis, molecular machines, computational chemistry, data analysis, ligand design, catalysis, high-field NMR, structure prediction.
Students can perform a range of experiments in two advanced areas of synthetic chemistry, present their work at group meetings, write in the style of a scientific journal and undertake independent research. Students will also experience different research groups and supervision philosophies
Predominantly lab-based work supported by hands-on workshops on experimental techniques.
Laboratory based work written up in the form of a research paper and associated supplementary information using the templates from the Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS). These papers will then be double-marked by staff.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. CHEMM0013).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
