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Chemistry Seminar introduces chemistry students to the skills necessary to search and read scientific literature as well as affords them the opportunity to discuss current chemistry research. Students will present a current scientific research article in a seminar setting. One 1-hr class per week,
Provides science majors and pre-professional students with a foundational study of organic chemistry. This is the first course of a two-course series covering the most fundamental concepts, reactions, and mechanisms involved in the understanding and practice of organic chemistry. Topics include alkanes, alkenes, aromatics, structure, properties, nomenclature, conformations, isomers, stereo- chemistry, chirality, resonance, reactions, polymerizations, synthesis, carbocations, radicals, mechanisms, thermodynamics, and spectroscopic techniques. Three lecture periods per week.
Is the second course of a two-course sequence covering the most fundamental concepts, reactions, and mechanisms involved in the understanding and practice of organic chemistry. Topics include conjugation, alkadienes, organometallics, alcohols, phenols, thiols, ethers, epoxides, sulfides, aldehydes, ketones, enols, enolates, carboxylic acids and derivatives, esters, ester enolates, amines, and biochemically important organic molecules. Three lecture periods per week.
Provides practical applications, in the form of experiments, of many of the most important concepts taught in the corresponding lecture course. Experiments include physical properties, spectroscopy, acid-base chemistry, addition and elimination reactions, chiral resolutions, and electrophilic aromatic substitutions. One 4-hour laboratory per week.
Provides practical applications, in the form of experiments, of many of the most important concepts taught in the corresponding lecture course. Experiments include reductions, oxidations, qualitative tests, Grignard, aldol, and Michael reactions, Fischer esterification multi-step synthesis, and original design chemistry. One 4-hour laboratory per week.
Expands on concepts introduced in General Chemistry to examine the chemistry of all elements, with an emphasis on the transition metals and solid state chemistry. Topics include the crystalline state, symmetry, coordination chemistry, molecular orbital theory, and nuclear chemistry.
Introduces statistical methods as applied to laboratory data; develops a greater understanding of relevant chemical equilibria; explores theoretical and practical aspects of volumetric and gravimetric analytical procedures; and concludes with an overview of electrochemical, spectrometric, and chromatographic instrumental methods. Laboratory work develops students' skills in these areas as knowledge of these theories and methods is essential to the application of chemistry in many fields.