Program Curriculum Courses

Lecture and Laboratory Courses

1070 General Chemistry 1 (3)

Corequisite: 1170.

An introduction to chemical principles. Stoichiometry, thermochemistry, states of matter, periodic relationships, atomic structure and bonding. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 1170 required. Credit will not be given for both 1070 and H1090.

1080 General Chemistry II (3)

Prerequisite: 1070 and 1170.
Corequisite: 1180.

The chemistry of solutions, equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 1180 required. Credit will not be given for both 1080 and H1100.

1170 General Chemistry Laboratory I (1)

Corequisite: 1070.

Laboratory to accompany 1070. Introduction to laboratory techniques in chemistry. Experiments dealing with stoichiometry, thermochemistry, properties of gases, and simple analytical techniques. One three hour lab per week. Concurrent registration in 1070 required. Credit will not be given for both 1170 and H1110.

1180 General Chemistry Laboratory II (1)

Prequisite: 1170.
Corequisite: 1080.

A continuation of 1170. Experiments to illustrate principles of chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, kinetics, thermodynamics, qualitative and quantitative analysis. One three hour laboratory per week. Concurrent registration in 1080 required. Credit will not be given for both 1180 and H1120.

2310 Quantitative Analysis (3)

Prerequisites: 1080 and 1180, or equivalent or instructor approval.
Corequisite: 2330.

Basic theory of gravimetric, volumetric and selected instrumental methods of analysis. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 2330 required. Offered by arrangement.

2330 Quantitative Analysis Laboratory (1)

Prerequisites: 1080 and 1180, or equivalent.
Corequisite: 2310.

Laboratory to accompany 2310. Practice of gravimetric, volumetric and selected instrumental methods of analysis. Two four hour laboratory periods per week. Concurrent registration in 2310 required. Offered by arrangement.

2410 Organic Chemistry I (3)

Prerequisites: 1080 and 1180, or equivalent.
Corequisite: 2430.

An introduction to organic reaction mechanism and organic spectroscopy. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 2430 required.

2420 Organic Chemistry II (3)

Prerequisites: 2410 and 2430.
Corequisite: 2440.

A continuation of 2410 with emphasis on mechanisms of organic reactions based on functional group reactivity. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 2440 required.

2430 Organic Chemistry Laboratory I (1)

Prerequisites: 1080 and 1180, or equivalent.
Corequisite: 2410.

Laboratory to accompany 2410. Introduction to laboratory techniques in organic chemistry. Synthesis of organic compounds. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 2410 required.

2440 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II (1)

Prerequisites: 2430.
Corequisite: 2420.

Laboratory to accompany 2420. A continuation of 2430. Includes identification of unknown organic compounds. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 2420 required. Credit will not be given for both 2440 and H2480.

2500 Environmental Chemistry (3)

Prerequisite: 1070, 1080 or 2410.

An overview of the many aspects of environmental chemistry. Topics include: aquatic chemistry, including water pollution and water treatment; atmospheric chemistry, air pollution and major threats to the global atmosphere; geochemistry and soil chemistry; nature, sources, and environmental chemistry of hazardous wastes; and toxicology chemistry.

3050 Drugs and Their Actions (3)

Prerequisities: Four credits of biology and eight credits of organic chemistry, or equivalent, or permission of chair, Department of Pharmacology.

Basic principles of pharmacology and selected topics of special interest, such as drugs of socioeconomic importance and socially abused drugs. Same as Pharamacology 6050 and Cell and Molecular Biology 3050. Lectures only. Does not count toward the major in chemistry.

3110 Physical Chemistry I (3)

Prerequisites: 1080, 1180 and Mathematics 2240 or equivalent.
Pre-requisites or corequiisites: Physics 1310 and 1320.
Corequisite: 3130.

Elementary quantum mechanics, quantum theory of molecular structure and bonding, fundamentals of spectroscopy. Three hours of lecture per week.

3120 Physical Chemistry II (3)

Prerequisites: 1080, 1180 and Mathematics 2210 or equivalent.
Corequisite: 3140.

First, Second, and Third laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic energy state functions, phases of pure substances, properties of mixtures, chemical equilibrium, equilibrium electrochemistry, statistical thermodynamics. Three hours of lecture per week.

3130 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I (1)

Prerequisites: 1080, 1180 and Mathematics 2440 or equivalent.
Prerequisties or corequisites: Physics 1310 and 1320.
Corequisite: 3110.

Laboratory to accompany 3110. Experiments in spectroscopy and spectroscopic analysis. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 3110 required.

3140 Physical Chemistry Laboratory II (1)

Prerequisites: 1080, 1180 and Mathematics 2210 or equivalent.
Corequisite: 3120 or 6120.

Laboratory to accompany 3120. Experiments illustrate thermodynamic and statistical mechanical principles. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 3120 required.

3210 Inorganic Chemistry (3)

Corequisite: 3230.

Periodic relationships, types of bonding, coordination complexes, acid-base concepts, inorganic reaction mechanisms. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 3230 required.

3230 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1)

Prerequisite or corequisite: 3110 and 3130.
Corequisite: 3210.

Laboratory to accompany 3210. Synthetic methods in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Use of instrumental methods in organic chemistry. One four hour laboraotry period per week. Concurrent registration in 3210 required.

3310 Instrumental Analysis (3)

Prerequisite: 1080, 1180 and either 2410 and 2430 or H2450 and H2470.
Corequisite: 3330.

Introduction to modern methods of instrumental analysis including separation techniques and spectroscopic and electrochemical methods. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 3330 required. Offered in alternate years.

3330 Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (1)

Prerequisite: 1080, 1180 and either 2410 and 2430.
Corequisite: 3310.

Laboratory to accompany 3310. Practice of separation techniques and spectroscopic and electrochemical methods of analysis. Two four-hour laboratory periods per week. Concurrent registration in 331 required. Offered in alternate years.

3410 Intermediate Organic Chemistry (3)

Prerequisite: 2420.

Mechanisms of organic reactions, control of stereochemistry and regiochemistry in synthesis, retrosynthetic analysis, analyses of simple natural product syntheses. Three hours of lecture per week.

3830 Introduction to Biochemistry (3)

Prerequisite: 2420.

Properties of biological compounds. Bioenergetics, basic metabolic pathways, general biochemical mechanisms. Offered jointly with the cell and molecular biology department.

3840 Intermediate Biochemistry (3)

Prerequisite: 3830.

Intermediary metabolism with emphasis on the integration of lipid, saccharide, and amino acid metabolism. Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation. Photosynthesis. Purine and pyrimidine metabolism. Offered jointly with the cell and molecular biology department.

3850 Introduction to Biochemistry Laboratory (2)

Corequisite: 3830 (exemption by approval of instructor.)

Eight hours of laboratory per week. Offered in the Fall semester.

3910 Special Topics (3)

Special topics in chemistry. For description, consult department.

4010 Research and Seminar (3)

Prerequisite: Junior standing or approval of department.

Individual research supervised by the faculty. Students are expected to present a short seminar based on their research. At least 10 hours of research effort per week. A maximum of three credits may be taken.

4020 Research and Seminar (3)

Same as 4010 in organization. A maximum of three credits may be taken.

4230 Organometallic Chemistry (3)

Prerequisite: 3210 or approval of instructor.

The chemistry of compounds containing main group and transition metal-carbon bonds. A survey of major classes of organometallic compounds and their reaction chemistry. The role of organometallic compounds in homegeneous catalysis. Three hours of lecture per week.

5110 Capstone Requirement (0)

Corequisite: Chem 4010 or Chem 4020

6120 Physical Biochemistry (3)

Prerequisites: 1080, 1180 and Mathematics 1220.
Corequisite: 3140.

A rigorous introduction to physical chemistry from a biological point of view. Thermodynamics is discussed with emphasis on the Gibbs free energy function and the concept of reaction eagerness. Due to the prevalence of water in living systems, aqueous solutions are treated in detail. The physical chemistry of biopolymers is discussed in conjunction with common molecular-weight determination methods including ultracentrifugation. Students are introduced to chemical kinetics in hands-on simulation sessions using an analog computer. Concurrent enrollment in 3140 required.