Prerequisites: CHEM 821
Description: Selection and execution of analytical methods in the solution of typical academic and industrial chemical problems.
Prerequisites: CHEM 252 or CHEM 262 with a grade of C or better. LIFE 120 and BIOS 206 are 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: VBMS 410
Continuation of BIOC 431/831.
Description: Major metabolic pathways of anabolism, structural and biochemical aspects of biological information flow and use in biotechnology.
Prerequisites: CHEM 821
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.
Description: Use of recent advances in genomics to organize the field of biochemistry as well as an understanding of how biologists, biochemists and chemists use this information to cure diseases. Credit toward the degree cannot be earned in both CHEM 835, and 831 and/or 832 or their equivalents.
This course is a prerequisite for: CHEM 936
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.
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 and permission
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.
Prerequisites: CHEM 114 and 116, or 221, with a grade of 'C' or better; MATH 106 and 238, or 107; one year college physics.
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.
Description: A one-semester survey course in modern physical chemistry, covering chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, molecular structure and spectroscopy.
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 and *885
Description: Advanced course dealing with the structure, bonding, properties, and reactions of inorganic solid materials.
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 *845 and *885
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 *885
Description: Basic principles of quantum mechanics applied to problems in molecular structure and chemical bonding.
Prerequisites: CHEM *885
Description: Principles of thermodynamics, with applications to chemical systems and processes, and illustrations from current literature.
Prerequisites: CHEM *885 or 982
Description: Application of equilibrium statistical mechanics to problems of chemical interest. Calculation of thermodynamic functions from molecular structure data. Molecular theories of gases, liquids, and solutions.
Prerequisites: CHEM *885 or 982
Description: Concepts and equations; successive, competing, and reversible reactions; equilibrium, collision, and activated-complex theories; reaction mechanism; heterogeneous reactions; current literature.
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 Seminar in Physical/Inorganic/Materials Chemistry
Prerequisites: Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair