Core Courses*

Chemistry 10301: General Chemistry I

Prerequisite(s): Math 19000. Corequisite(s): Math 19500.

3 lecture, 2 workshop, 2 lab hours per week; 4 credits
[Syllabus-Birke/Green] [Syllabus-Gosser] [Syllabus-Miller] [Lab Syllabus] [Sample Final Exam]

Chemistry 10401: General Chemistry II

Prerequisite(s): 10301

3 lecture, 4 lab hours per week; 4 credits
[Syllabus-Salame] [Syllabus-Tamargo] [Lab Syllabus]

Advanced Courses

Chemistry 21000: Applied Chemistry for Biomedical Engineers

Introduces students to organic chemistry and biochemistry principles relevant to the study of the human body. Topics covered include hydrocarbons, functional groups, and structure and function of biomolecules (lipids, carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids), along with their interactions.

Prerequisite: Chemistry 10401 (minimum grade C) .

3 hours lecture; 3 credits

Chemistry 24300: Quantitative Analysis

Volumetric, spectrophotometric and electrometric analyses.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10400 and 10800 or 10401.

2 class, 5 lab hours per week; 4 credits
[Syllabus-Bandosz]

Chemistry 26100: Organic Chemistry I

An introduction to the chemistry of carbon compounds. Current interpretation of the reactions and properties of these compounds.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10400 or 10401.

3 lecture, 1 recitation hour per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-Salame] [Syllabus-Balogh-Nair]

Chemistry 26200: Organic Chemistry Laboratory I

(For non-Chemistry majors.) Exercises involving the preparation and purification of carbon compounds.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10401 or 10800 and 26100. Corequisite(s): Chemistry 26300. Spring semester only.

4 hours per week; 2 credits
[Syllabus-John]

Chemistry 26300: Organic Chemistry II

A continuation of Chemistry 26100.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 26100.

3 lecture, 1 recitation hour per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-Chaturvedi]

Chemistry 27200: Organic Chemistry Laboratory I

(For Chemistry majors.) Exercises stressing the techniques involved in the preparation, isolation, purification, and analysis of carbon compounds.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10401 or 10800 and 26100.

Corequisite(s): Chem 26300.

6 hours per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-John]

Chemistry 31606: General Chemistry for Engineers

A one-semester course designed to prepare engineering students for materials courses in their respective departments. Emphasizes structure and bonding in inorganic and organic molecules, polymers, and metals. The laboratory emphasizes both wet-lab experiments and computer simulations.

3 hours lecture, 2 hours lab; 3 credits

Chemistry 32500: Inorganic Laboratory

Concepts of inorganic chemistry, including bonding theory, structure of complexes, symmetry, and reaction mechanisms.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 24300. Fall semester only.

4 hours lecture, 4 hours lab; 5 credits

Chemistry 33000: Physical Chemistry I

Ideal and real gases, kinetic molecular theory, thermodynamics and phase equilibria, solutions.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10400 or 10401, Math 20300, Physics 20700.

Corequisite(s): Physics 20800 (recommended as a prereq.).
Students who feel that they would benefit from workshops should also take Chem 33001

3 hours per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-Birke]

Chemistry 33001: Physical Chemistry I workshop

Optional workshop

Corequisite:Chem 33000.

2 hours per week; 0 credits

Chemistry 33100: Physical Chemistry Laboratory I

Vapor pressures; phase diagram; combustion calorimetry; gas viscosities; electrochemical determination of thermodynamic quantities. Other experiments based on topics covered in Chemistry 33000.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 24300 & 33000. (W)

5 hours per week; 2 credits
[Syllabus-Yu]

Chemistry 33200: Physical Chemistry II

Spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and statistical thermodynamics.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 33000.
Students who feel that they would benefit from workshops should also take Chem 33201

3 hours per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-Green]

Chemistry 33201: Physical Chemistry II workshop

Optional workshop

Corequisite:Chem 33200.

2 hours per week; 0 credits

Chemistry 33500: Physical Chemistry II

(For students taking the biochemistry option.) Kinetics, transport, Quantum Mechanics, and spectroscopy as applied to biological systems.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 24300, 26300, and 33000. Spring semester only. (W)

3 lecture, 1 recitation, 4 lab hours per week; 5 credits

Chemistry 37400: Organic Chemistry Laboratory II

A continuation of Chemistry 26200/27200 stressing qualitative organic analysis.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 26300 and Chem 26200 or 27200.

6 hours per week; 3 credits

Chemistry 38200: Chemistry-Physics-Engineering Seminar I

Required for certain undergraduate students; emphasis on topics in physical chemistry. Fall semester only.

1 credit .

Chemistry 38300: Chemistry-Physics-Engineering Seminar II

Required for certain undergraduate students; emphasis on topics in physical chemistry. Spring semester only.

1 credit .

Chemistry 40300: Chemical Information Sources

An introduction to the retrieval of chemical information. Topics covered: primary, secondary and tertiary literature, including the major abstract journals, data sources, compendia, patents, current awareness, and computer readable sources.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10401 or 10800, and 26100. Spring semester only.

1 hour per week; 1 credit

Chemistry 40500: Safety in Chemistry

Laboratory and plant safety and toxicology; safety regulations.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 10401 or 10800, and 26100. Spring semester only.

1 hour per week; 1 credit

Chemistry 40600: Environmental Chemistry

Environmental Chemistry is intended to broaden the students understanding of chemical processes taking place in our environment. The relationship between atmospheric, soil and water chemistry will be underlined. This course draws upon general, analytical and organic chemistry experience. Fall semester only.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 24300 and 26100.

3 hours, 3 credits

Chemistry 40601: Environmental Laboratory

Introduction to environmental analysis. Samples of water, air, soil, food, etc. will be obtained and analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively for pollutants. The effects of these pollutants on the environment will be discussed and linked to urban problems. Analytical techniques will include titrations, separation techniques: GC, HPLC, GC/MS, and polarography. Spring semester only.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 40600.

4 hours, 2 credits

Chemistry 40700: Environmental Organic Chemistry

Examination of processes that affect the behavior and fate of anthropogenic organic contaminants in aquatic environments. Students learn to predict chemical properties that are influencing the transfers between hydrophobic organic chemicals, air, water, sediments and biota. This knowledge will be based on a fundamental understanding of intermolecular interactions and thermodynamic principles. Mechanisms of important thermochemical, photochemical, and biochemical transformation reactions are also investigated, leading to the development of techniques (such as structure-reactivity relationships) for assessing environmental fate or human exposure potential. Spring semester only.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 26100.

3 hours, 3 credits

Chemistry 43400: Physical Chemistry and Chemical Instrumentaion Laboratory II

This course will introduce students to experimental methods in physical chemistry, instrumental analysis and the principles and applications of chemical instrumentation. The course will acquaint the student with the behavior of real chemical systems, the theory of the chemical phenomenon under observation and the design and methodology of measurement systems to detect the chemical phenomenon.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 33100 and Chemistry 33200. (W)

1 lecture, 5 lab hours per week; 3 credits

Chemistry 45900: Biochemistry I

The cellular biochemistry of amino acids, proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Chromatography, electrophoresis, spectroscopy, and other quantitative laboratory techniques will be applied to the isolation and analysis of these classes of biochemicals.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 26300 and 26200 or 27200;

3 lecture, 4 lab hour per week; 4 credits

Chemistry 47800: Biomedical Research Seminar I

Required for certain undergraduate students; emphasis on topics in biochemistry. Departmental permission required. Fall semester only.

1 credit

Chemistry 47900: Biomedical Research Seminar II

Required for certain undergraduate students; emphasis on topics in biochemistry. Departmental permission required. Spring semester only.

1 credit

Chemistry 48005: Biochemistry II

Molecular basis of enzyme action, membranes (transport and transduction), amino acid metabolism and its control, molecular basis of replication, transcription, and translation of genetic information immunology.

Prerequisite(s): Chemistry 45900. Spring semester only.

3 hours per week; 3 credits
[Syllabus-Ryan-Steinberg]