Learning Outcomes
After the successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- understand the basic photochemical processes of inorganic compounds
- understand the role of inorganic/organometallic compounds in catalytic transformations
- collect, process, and present scientific information relevant to the catalytic behavior of inorganic/organometallic compounds
Course Content (Syllabus)
Interaction of light with matter
Excited states and selection rules
Ways of Decay
Decay kinetics
Quantum yield
Photochemical reactions, photophysical measurements, fluorometer
Organometallic reactions: substitution, oxidative addition and reductive elimination, insertion and elimination, nucleophilic and electrophilic addition/abstraction
Catalysis
Homogeneous catalysis: alkene isomerization, alkene hydrogenation, alkene hydroformylation, methanol carbonylation, alkene metathesis, Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions
Heterogeneous catalysis: catalytic hydroganation, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, alkene polymerization
Electrocatalysis and photocatalysis
Keywords
photochemistry, photochemical reactions, organometallic reactions, homogeneous/heterogeneous catalysis