Faculty of Science

Objectives

An understanding of the structure of the petroleum industry and the chemical principles of petroleum refining, especially processes involved in the processing of crude oil to refined products.To study the electronic and geometric structure of molecules and the basic ideas and methods in theoretical chemistry with special emphasis on applications in the investigation of molecular structure.

Contents

Quantum theory: angular momentum; Linear combination of Atomic Orbitals (LCAO); the Huckel theory; applications of Group Theory; molecular symmetry; symmetry groups; representation of symmetry groups; Combination of symmetry operations; Point Groups; Chemical applications: molecular symmetry and absorption bands; infrared spectroscopy; Selection rules; vibrational spectra; vibration and rotation energy levels; rotating diatomic molecules.