Programme
Post-conference Training Course
Gain a basic understanding of chemistry for your job role
This introductory training course (based on our popular webinar and eLearning course) will provide you with a basic understanding of some of the most common physicochemical terms used in the prediction of likely exposure routes and hazardous effects; not only for human health but also for environmental fate and effects. What's more, expanding your knowledge of chemistry will help you with the identification of structural alerts, the use of appropriate read across and mechanisms of action.
In this one-day course, expert toxicologist Laura Robinson will teach you how to identify some important hazard properties, such as pH and its link with corrosivity, and important exposure routes, including the use of water solubility and Log Kow for predicting absorption, as well as environmental transport and fate.
Course leader
Laura Robinson, Occupational Toxicologist, Toxicology Consulting Ltd, UK is a qualified toxicologist and chemist with over ten years’ experience in health, safety and environmental issues, as well as chemical compliance.
Laura is an accomplished toxicology trainer, consultant and author of two published books on toxicology. Her third book ‘A practical guide to toxicology and human health risk assessment’ (John Wiley & Sons) will be published in 2018
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Registration
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Course Commencement
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PART I: Atomic structure, chemical binding and categories of chemical
- Introduction
- Atomic structure, atomic mass & number, electron shells, isotopes & the periodic table
- Chemical bonding: Covalent (including polar covalent), ionic and metallic bonding & their properties
- Electronegativity and polar bonds/molecules (including their impact on physicochemical properties, such as boiling point)
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Refreshment break
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PART II: Chemical identity
- States of matter
- Substance type – Mono-constituent, multi-constituent substances, UVCB, Nanomaterials, impurities
- Chemical identification (Smilies, IUPAC naming, EC number, CAS number, EINECS and REACH Registration Number)
- Mixtures and articles
- Chemical nomenclature (organic, inorganic)
- Molecular and structural formula
- Isomers
- Functional groups (including use as structural alerts)
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Lunch
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PART III: Physicochemical properties - and how they can be used
- Boiling point and melting point
- Vapour pressure & volatility
- Density and specific gravity
- Water solubility
- Octanol water partition coefficient
- pH and pKa
- Viscosity
- How physicochemical properties can be used to help likely human and ‘environmental’ exposures
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Refreshment break
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PART IV: Chemistry in action
- Chemical reactions and equations
- Hydrolysis
- Oxidation reactions (with examples from metabolism)
- Acid – base (neutralisation) reactions
- Flashpoint and flammability
- Explosives
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Questions and close of day
