Course description

The course covers the basic physical principles that are the foundation of essentially all materials and biological chemistry. Topics include electronic structure, chemical bonding, non-covalent and intermolecular interactions, chemical kinetics and thermodynamics. The course also provides an introduction into a range of physical techniques used to characterise (bio) molecular systems. These include UV/visible spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism, as well as scanning differential and isothermal calorimetry.

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