Chemical Theory, (Bio)Molecular Design and Synthesis

English
VUB Main Campus Etterbeek
120
 ECTS
2 years

Master of Science in Chemistry: Chemical Theory, (Bio)Molecular Design and Synthesis

Compulsory courses

Part I

Molecular Physical Chemistry
9 ECTS
Advanced Organic Chemistry
9 ECTS
(Bio)Polymers
6 ECTS
Molecular Structure Analysis
6 ECTS
Scientific and Science Communication / Communicating Science
6 ECTS
Integrated Theoretical and Organic Chemistry Practical
4 ECTS
Chemical Process Technology
4 ECTS
Master Thesis Partim I
9 ECTS

Part II

Master Thesis Partim II
21 ECTS
Internship
30 ECTS

Electives

Electives year 1

You choose a total of 7 credits of courses from the following options

Polymer Materials: from biomedical to sustainable aspects
4 ECTS
Chemical Biology
4 ECTS
Natural Product Chemistry
4 ECTS
Medicinal Chemistry
4 ECTS
Bioinformatics and next-generation DNA sequence analysis
4 ECTS
Advanced Electronic Structure Methods
4 ECTS
Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces: Theory and Experiment
3 ECTS
Advanced quantum chemistry
4 ECTS
Computational Quantum Chemistry
8 ECTS
Heterogeneous Catalysis
5 ECTS

Electives year 2

You choose a total of 9 credits of courses from the following options

Asymmetric Synthesis
3 ECTS
Multi Scale Modelling
3 ECTS
Chemical Concepts from Quantum Chemistry
3 ECTS
Density Functional Theory
3 ECTS
Homogenous catalysis
3 ECTS
Chemical Applications of Group Theory
6 ECTS
Capita Selecta in Theoretical Chemistry
3 ECTS
Capita Selecta in Bio-organic Chemistry
3 ECTS
Molecular Simulations of Biosystems
3 ECTS
Chemometrics
3 ECTS
Total number of ECTS
120