Winter and Spring Semester and Course Schedule: Academic Year 2023-2024
Winter semester:
Courses
Starting Date: Monday 2-10-2023
Ending Date: Friday 12-1-2024
Examinations
Start: Monday 15-1-2024
End: Friday 2-2-2024
Spring semester:
Courses
Starting Date: Monday 5-2-2024
Ending Date: Friday 17-5-2024
Examinations
Start: Monday 20-5-2024
End: Friday 7-6-2024
MSc "Inorganic Chemistry and its Applications in Industry"
Program A' semester 2023-2024
Course: Inorganic Synthesis and Analysis
Instructors: Ch. Mitsopoulou, A. Danopoulos, H. Efthimiadou, N. Tsoureas
Tuesday: 12:00-15:00
| Instructor | Date | Time | Title |
| Mitsopoulou | 3-10-23 | 12-15 | Synthesis of complex compounds of hard and soft acids and bases. |
| Tsoureas | 10-10-23 | 12-15 | X-Ray Crystallography From the viewpoint of a synthetic chemist – Space Groups, reciprocal space, instrumentation |
| Tsoureas | 17-10-23 | 12-15 | X-Ray Crystallography From the viewpoint of a synthetic chemist – practice in collecting a dataset, solving and refining a model |
| Mitsopoulou | 24-10-23 | 12-15 | Synthesis of complex compounds. Theory of hard and soft acids and bases |
| Mitsopoulou | 31-10-23 | 12-15 | Strategies of synthesis: The role of the metal ion and substituents and their effects on the properties of compounds. Non- Innocent Ligands. |
| Mitsopoulou | 7-11-23 | 9-12 | Characterization of complex compounds. Molecular machines: Are the metal ions necessary? |
| Danopoulos | 14-11-23 | 9-12 | Multiple metal bonds between metals and ligands (part I: the metal coordination geometry perspective). |
| Danopoulos | 21-11-23 | 9-12 | Multiple metal bonds between metals and ligands (part II: the donor atom(s) and ligand perspective). |
| Danopoulos | 28-11-23 | 9-12 | Applications in the areas of ligand design, catalysis and building of ‘functional’ complexes |
| Tsoureas | 5-12-23 | 9-12 | Lanthanides-Actinindes and small molecule activation. |
| Efthimiadou | 12-12-23 | 9-12 | Introduction to nanotechnology, use of metals in the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles - Modern trends |
| Efthimiadou | 19-12-23 | 9-12 | Nanoparticle design and synthesis strategies |
| Efthimiadou | 9-1-24 | 9-12 | Characterization and study of nanoparticle properties |
| Efthimiadou |
| 9-12 | Biological evaluation of nanoparticles, complexes of compounds |
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| 9-12 | Exercises Deliverables |
Course: Contemporary spectroscopic methods and methods of determination and analysis. Laboratory
Instructors: Papaefstathiou, Philippopoulos, Methenitis, Paraskevopoulou, Mitsopoulou, Kyritsis, Danopoulos
Friday: 9:00-12:00
| Instructor | Date | Time | Title |
| Papaefstathiou | 6-10-23 | 12-15 | TGA |
| Danopoulos | 13-10-23 | 12-15 | Inert Atmosphere Techniques / Glove Box |
| Kyritsis | 20-10-23 | 12-15 | EPR |
| Methenitis | 27-10-23 | 9-12 | UV |
| Methenitis | 3-11-23 | 9-12 | CD |
| Paraskevopoulou | 10-11-23 | 9-12 | CV |
| Paraskevopoulou | 24-11-23 | 12-15 | CV |
| Kyritsis | 1-12-23 | 12-15 | EPR - Exercises |
| 8-12-23 | 12-15 | Exercises | |
| Mitsopoulou | 15-12-23 | 12-15 | NMR |
| Philippopoulos | 22-12-23 | 12-15 | IR-theory |
| Philippopoulos | 12-1-24 | 12-15 | IR-Exercises |
Course: Topics of Inorganic Chemistry
Instructors: Kyritsis, Philippopoulos, Paraskevopoulou
Tuesday: 9: 00-12: 00
| Instructor | Date | Time | Title |
| Instructors | 3-10-23 | 9-12 | Introduction |
| Kyritsis | 10-10-23 | 9-12 | Basic concepts of Chemical Kinetics - Experimental Techniques. |
| Kyritsis | 17-10-23 | 9-12 | Substitution reaction mechanisms. |
| Kyritsis | 24-10-23 | 9-12 | Redox reaction mechanisms. |
| Kyritsis | 31-10-23 | 9-12 | Electron transport reactions in biological systems. Applications in metalloenzyme function with industrial interest. |
| Philippopoulos | 7-11-23 | 9-12 | "Transfer Hydrogenation reactions" 1. Principles and proposed mechanistic studies. |
| Philippopoulos | 14-11-23 | 9-12 | "Transfer Hydrogenation reactions" 2. Examples of reactions and factors affecting the process. |
| Philippopoulos | 21-11-23 | 9-12 | "Transfer Hydrogenation reactions" 3. Asymmetric reduction of various unsaturated substrates. Mechanism of action and indicative examples. |
| Philippopoulos | 28-11-23 | 9-12 | "Transfer Hydrogenation reactions" to biological systems. A New Approach. |
| Paraskevopoulou | 5-12-23 | 9-12 | Catalytic olefin displacement reactions. Metal-carbon bonds. Reaction mechanisms. Catalyst structure / activity ratio. Industrial applications. |
| Paraskevopoulou | 12-12-23 | 9-12 | Catalytic displacement and cyclotrimerization reactions of algines. Reaction mechanisms. Industrial applications. |
| Paraskevopoulou | 19-12-23 | 9-12 | Tundles with metal-metal bonds. |
| Paraskevopoulou | 9-1-24 | 9-12 | Catalysis with tuples carrying metal-metal bonds. Reaction mechanisms. Comparison (activity, selectivity) with the corresponding monomeric catalyst systems |
Course: Inorganic Structure and Reactivity
Instructors: Chrissanthopoulos, Papaefstathiou, Kyritsis
Friday: 12: 00-15: 00
| Instructor | Date | Time | Title |
| Papaefstathiou | 6-10-23 | 12-15 | Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) 1 |
| Papaefstathiou | 13-10-23 | 12-15 | Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) 2 |
| Papaefstathiou | 20-10-23 | 12-15 | X-ray crystallography |
| Papaefstathiou | 27-10-23 | 12-15 | Cambridge crystallographic database |
| Chrissanthopoulos | 3-11-23 | 12-15 | Symmetry and Structure: Molecular Imaging, Elements of Symmetry, Point Groups |
| Chrissanthopoulos | 10-11-23 | 12-15 | Molecular interactions. Chemical bond. Electronegativity as an indicator of chemical activity |
| Chrissanthopoulos | 24-11-23 | 12-15 | Theories and models about the structure of inorganic solids. Computational study of structure and chemical activity |
| Chrissanthopoulos | 1-12-23 | 12-15 | Semiconductors and nanomaterials |
| Kyritsis | 8-12-23 | 12-15 | Introduction to EPR spectroscopy |
| Kyritsis | 15-12-23 | 12-15 | Zero-field splitting determination methods |
| Kyritsis | 22-12-23 | 12-15 | Magnetostructural correlations in single ion magnets (SIMs) |
| Kyritsis | 12-1-24 | 12-15 | Basic principles for designing new SIMs |