This is an advanced course on a contemporary topic or group of topics in Pure and/or Applied Chemistry, with examples including catalysis chemistry, materials chemistry, green chemistry and advanced analytical techniques for modern chemistry research. The topic will be announced in advance when this course is offered.  It will provide a useful supplement to the advanced courses already specified in the programme.

This course aims to enable the students to achieve the following objects:

• Identify and explain, to an appropriate extent, the real-world and technological importance/relevance of the subject matters covered in a traditional chemistry undergraduate curriculum;
• Describe the selected experimental and theoretical principles of Chemistry and its applied ramifications;
• Apply such principles to structural analysis and property studies of the selected molecules/materials in combination with analytical or environmental procedures in Chemistry.
• Compare and relate the selected topics with the ones in General Chemistry and generate the conceptual links between the two fields, in order to establish a broader perspective on these foundational topics.