Description: Chemical and physical properties applied to quantitative chemical analysis. Solution equilibria, stoichiometry, and instrumental theory and techniques.
Prerequisites: LIFE 120 with a grade of C or better; CHEM 252 or CHEM 262 with a grade of C or better.
BIOS 206 or AGRO 215 is recommended. First course of a two-semester, comprehensive biochemistry course sequence.
Description: Structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids; nature of enzymes; major metabolic pathways of catabolism; and biochemical energy production.
This course is a prerequisite for: AGRO 434, BIOC 434, BIOS 434, CHEM 434, AGRO 834, BIOC 834, BIOS 834, CHEM 834; AGRO 810, BIOC 810, HORT 810; ASCI 820; ASCI 917; ASCI 925, NUTR 925; ASCI 926, NUTR 926; ASCI 927, NUTR 927; BIOC 305; BIOC 433, BIOC 833, BIOS 433, BIOS 833, CHEM 433, CHEM 833; BIOS 879; BIOS 950, VBMS 950; BSEN 416, BSEN 816; FDST 470, FDST 870; VBMS 410
Description: Introduction to techniques used in biochemical and biotechnology research, including measurement of pH, spectroscopy, analysis of enzymes, chromatography, fractionation of macromolecules, electrophoresis, and centrifugation.
Prerequisites: BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 431/831.
Description: Biochemical metabolism unique to plants. Relationships of topics previously acquired in general biochemistry to biochemical processes unique to plants. Biochemical mechanisms behind physiological processes discussed in plant or crop physiology.
Prerequisites: Chem 252 or 262, and Chem 221
Credit toward the undergraduate or graduate degree cannot be earned in both CHEM 435/835, and 431/831 and/or 432/832 or their equivalents.
Description: Fundamentals of chemical biology with an emphasis on the underlying principles of biomolecular structures, macromolecular-small molecule interactions, including mechanistic aspects of enzymes and cofactors, use of modified enzymes to alter biochemical pathways, and the use of chemical tools for understanding biological processes.
Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of biophysical characterization of macromolecules. The course will be based on primary research literature, although a supporting text will be used for in depth discussion of the methods.
CHEM 443 is recommended to be taken parallel.
Description: Introduction to typical inorganic chemistry laboratory techniques through the preparation and characterization of inorganic compounds.
This course is a prerequisite for: CHEM 845
Description: Topics in inorganic chemistry such as bioinorganics, catalysis, organometallic, materials and solid state chemistry. Theoretical principles and practical applications, and on correlating the physical and chemical properties of the chemical elements and inorganic chemical compounds.
Prerequisites: 3 hrs BIOC and 3 hrs inorganic chemistry
Description: Redox (oxidation and reduction)-based biochemical processes (energy generation, oxygen transfer, enzyme catalysis, signaling, gene regulation, and diseases). Recent progress in these areas. Roles of metals in biochemical reactions, metal homeostasis, and biosynthesis of metal cofactors and metal sites. Biochemistry and pathophysiology of redoxactive species and radicals. Antioxidant molecules and enzymes.
Description: Survey of modern concepts of structure/bonding, acidity/basicity, stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms. Introduction to the fundamental tools used to investigate reaction mechanism (transition state theory, elementary Huckel theory, linear free energy relationships, rate laws and kinetic isotope effects). Mechanistic examples emphasize the major classes of organic reactions, particularly concerted, carbanionic and carbocationic. Development of reasoning skills.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Modern reactions and methodology for organic synthesis. Carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions; alkene synthesis; oxidation; reductions; function group interconversion; use of protecting groups; and organometallic reagents.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855 and permission
Description: Additional reactions of importance for organic synthesis. Examples of topics which may be covered include cycloadditions, rearrangements, and radical-based trnasofmations.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855 and permission
Description: Organic reactions of particular relevance to interdisciplinary research in analytical/bioanalytical chemistry, biochemistry, and the life sciences. Formation of esters, thioesters, and amides; surface functionalization of inorganic or polymer supports; methods for cross-linking, conjugation, or immobilization of chemicals and biomolecules.
Description: Conceptual and mathematical foundations of classical and statistical thermodynamics. Applications of thermodynamics to phase and chemical equilibria. Thermodynamics of solutions of small molecules and of polymers. Biological applications of thermodynamics. Introduction to chemical and biochemical spectroscopy.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. May be counted towards the MAT and MScT degrees in mathematics and statistics, not the MA, MS, or PhD. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Topical chemistry content for high school teachers organized according to the National Science Education Standards. A maximum combined total of 12 hours from TEAC *869 and/or *874 may be counted toward a masters degree. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry. Courses are Web-based.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Description: Laboratory-based courses addressing specific issues connected with teaching laboratory work in high school chemistry programs. Credit in this course will not count towards a graduate degree in chemistry.
Credit may not be earned in both CHEM 471/871 and 481/881.
Description: CHEM 481/881 and 482/882 with accompanying lab 484/884 form a continuous basic course in physical chemistry for students interested in chemistry as a profession. Introduction to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics; application to problems in atomic and molecular structure and to spectroscopy.
Prerequisites: CHEM 481/881.
Description: Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and their application to the study of solids, liquids, gases, solutions, phase equilibria, and chemical equilibria. Chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
Prerequisites: CHEM 471/871 or 481/881.
Description: Applications of thermodynamics to biochemical phenomena, optical properties of proteins and polynucleotides, and kinetics of rapid reactions.
Prerequisites: Permission
Prerequisites: Admission to chemistry graduate program.
Description: Series of lectures and activities designed to prepare for graduate research and graduate studies in chemistry.
Description: Preparation for and presentation of the Research Update Interview. Open to graduate students in Chemistry in the third semester of their program, or with instructor permission.
Description: Preparation for and presentation of an Original Research Proposal. Open to graduate students in Chemistry in the sixth semester of their program, or with instructor permission.
Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
Prerequisites: BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 832 or BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 839
Description: Protein structure and function.
Prerequisites: BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 432/832, or BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 839
Description: Kinetics regulation and reaction mechanisms of enzymes.
Prerequisites: BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 832 or permission
Description: Detailed examination of dynamic control mechanisms of genome maintenance and gene regulation. Mechanisms of transcription, translation, and replication based on analysis of current and seminal literature.
Prerequisites: BIOC/CHEM/BIOS 432/832 and permission
Description: Current metabolic research at the bioenergetic, metabolomic, and molecular level. The normal metabolic processes that go awry in cancer, obesity, and oxidative stress.
Description: The fundamentals of molecular biology and biotechnology and applications. The fundamentals include methods for DNA cloning, sequencing, annotation, recombination, mutagenesis, and expression. The applications include the production of molecular diagnostics and therapeutic agents etc. with a focus on the molecular biotechnology of microbial systems.
Prerequisites: CHEM 845
Description: Chemistry of the metallic compounds.
Description: The chemistry of compounds that occupy the boundary between inorganic and organic chemistry.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Types of stereoisomerism in organic compounds. Steric strain and certain other steric effects in reactions of organic substances.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Classes of reaction mechanisms and the methods whereby mechanisms may be studied. Kinetic and equilibrium studies; isotopic labeling; activation parameters; linear free energy relationships; stereochemistry; NMR and other spectroscopic methods as applied to reaction mechanisms, including direct observation of reactive intermediates; interpreting the results of semi-empirical calculations of reaction pathways; and studies of acid- and base-catalysis mechanisms.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Elementary aspects of molecular orbital (MO) theory. Selected concepts in molecular symmetry and topology. Applications of MO calculations to reaction mechanisms and elucidation of electronic structure for organic molecules: calculations vs. experiment. Introduction to selected interdisciplinary topics.
Prerequisites: CHEM 865
Description: Use of organometallic reagents and catalysts in organic synthesis.
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Organic chemistry of biological systems with particular emphasis on the molecular mechanisms of action of enzymes and their associated cofactors.
Prerequisites: CHEM 865
Description: Strategy and execution of organic synthesis. Retrosynthetic analysis; total synthesis of natural and unnatural products; methods for asymmetric synthesis; and applications of pericyclic reactions.
Prerequisites: CHEM 482/882 or 885 or 972; and permission.
Description: A quantitative treatment of the principal methods of electronic, optical, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Prerequisites: CHEM 482/882 or 885 or 972; and permission.
Description: A quantitative treatment of the principal methods of light, electron and neutron scattering.
Prerequisites: CHEM 845 and permission
Prerequisites: CHEM 855
Description: Topics of special interest in modern organic chemistry.
Prerequisites: Graduate student enrollment in Chemistry, or permission
Prerequisites: Graduate student enrollment in Chemistry, or permission
Prerequisites: Graduate student enrollment in Chemistry, or permission.
Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair