Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Have acquired professional skills in relation to the objective defining the degree.
• Specialise in at least one sub-domain of chemistry.
• Help lead and complete a major development project, individually or in teams, related to chemistry.
• Mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired.
• Assess the degree of complexity of the project and take into account the objectives, allocated resources and constraints that characterise it.
• Manage research, development and innovation within chemistry and/or its applications.
• Understand unprecedented problems in chemistry.
• Communicate clearly in the scientific domain.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy to evolve in new contexts.
• Apply high quality scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of chemistry in general and projects to which they particularly contribute.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

The course of "ring-opening polymerization" aims at describing the main ways to polymerize cyclic monomers (mainly based on heteroatoms) 

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

I. Introduction; II. Thermodynamic of ROP; III. Mechanisms and active centers; IV. Activated monomer ROP ; V. Polymerization and side reactions ; VI. Metal-based Polymerization; VII. Organic-based Polymerization; VIII. From controlled to living ROP; IX. Stereocontroled ROP - Illustration from Lactide ROP

Prior Experience

Polymer Chemistry course - BAC 3 (UMons)