Organische Umweltchemie, Klausur

What it is about

You learn how organic substances react in the environment, distribute themselves and occur in different media (water, soil, air, organisms). You will be able to predict their behavior at the end based on chemical properties and simple models, for example persistence, bioaccumulation and transformation.

What you will be able to do

• Understanding speciation in aqueous systems
• Recognising intermolecular interactions (hydrogen bonds, van der Waals)
• Prediction of distribution using multiparametric Linear Free Energy Relationships
• Knowledge of air-water and organic solvent-water partitioning
• Understanding sorption and bioaccumulation
• Knowledge of hydrolytic and redox environmental transformation processes
• Application of Hammett relationships for predicting reactivity
• Prediction of environmental fate of organic chemicals

What the module consists of

• LecturesConveying the theoretical foundations on partitioning, speciation and environmental reactions

Teaching method

• Vorlesungto explain concepts and models needed to predict the environmental behavior of organic substances