Organic chemistry for materials: The course aims to describe the characteristics and the synthetic approaches to some classes of organic materials. Click chemistry, Dendrimers (caharacteristics, synthetic approaches, applications), Fullerenes and nanotubes (synthesis, reactivity, functionalisation, applications), Graphene.
Basic knowledge of organic chemistry applied to material chemistry. Knowledge of the characterstics, properties and reactivity of fullerene, graphene, nanotubes.
Prerequisites
Courses required: none
Courses recommended
Teaching Methods
Total number of hours for Lectures (hours): 40
Total number of hours for Laboratory-field practice : 8
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
Course program
Click Chemistry: Definition, examples of reactions. CuAAC: mechanism, characteristics and application of the reaction.
Dendrimers: Definition, convergent and divergent syntheses. Structural and chemical physical characteristics of dendrimers. Applications.
Fullerene: historical description, struicture and properties. Reactivity. Structural chemical modification. Rational approach the the synthesis of C60. Applications.
Carbon nanotubes: Structure and properties. Synthesis and purification. Reactivity and structural modification Rational synthetic approach.
Graphene: Structure and properties, synthesis and characteristics.