Courses

CHEM 100

Basic concepts in general and introductory organic chemistry including matter, measurements, periodic table, compounds, chemical bonding, intermolecular interactions, mole-mass relations, stoichiometry and reaction balancing, chemical reaction rates, gasses, liquids, solids, solutions, acid-base theory, nuclear chemistry, functional groups in organic chemistry, amines, alcohols, carboxylic acids, amino acids-proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

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Credit:3

CHEM 103

Atomic and molecular structure, spectroscopy, stoichiometry, chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry, structure and properties of materials.

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Credit:3
Pre-requisite: Corequisite: CHEM 103L or consent of the instructor

CHEM 204

Fundamental principles of a wide range of instrumental techniques in spectroscopy, chromatography, electrochemistry, thermal analysis and surface analysis. Lab component.

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Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM 102 or consent of instructor

CHEM 301

Properties of perfect and real gases, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, free energy, physical transformations of pure materials and simple mixtures, the phase rule and phase diagrams, chemical equilibrium. Lab component.

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Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 102

CHEM 304

Series expansions of chemical properties with applications in chemical thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, chemical kinetics and statistical thermodynamics. Curve fitting to experimental data with the least square fitting, optimization and Monte Carlo method. Interpolation/extrapolation of numerical data. Solutions of one-dimensional nonlinear equations. Numerical differentiation and integration methods. Ordinary differential equations: Linear, nonlinear with constant coefficients, power series solutions. Solutons of linear set of equations. Eigenvalue equations in quantum chemistry.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:3
Pre-requisite: CHEM 102 and MATH 106 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 102

Atomic structure, chemical bonds, compounds, solutions, stoichiometry. Electrochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, basic organic chemistry.

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Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 101 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 201

Basic principles and units of measurement, S.I. unit for chemical quantity, units of concentration, gravimetric methods of analysis, volumetric methods, titration of polyprotic acid and bases, complexation and pricipitation titrations, elements of electrochemistry, oxidation-reduction titration, electrolysis, potentiometry, conductomery, introduction to analytical separations: column chromatography. Thin layer chromatography, analysis of chromatograms, high performance ion-exchange chromatography.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 102 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 207

Spectroscopic methods for structure determination with emphasis on NMR and IR techniques, aromaticity and electrophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic addition and substitution reactions of carbonyl compounds, aldol reactions, amines, phenols, aryl halides and nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions, named reactions. Lab component.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 206

CHEM 303

Quantum mechanics, solution of the particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator and hydrogen atom; orbital concepts, the structure of many-electron atoms, molecular orbital theory, molecular symmetry and group theory; rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:3
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 102 or MATH 107 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 350

Detailed examination of current topics in selected areas of Chemistry.

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Credit:3

CHEM 101

Atomic structure, chemical bonds, compounds, solutions, stoichiometry. Electrochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, basic organic chemistry.

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Credit:4
Pre-requisite: Co-requisite or DOS 171 or CPAP 100 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 200

Basic concepts and important topics in organic chemistry that are needed to establish a strong foundation in health sciences will be covered. Topics to be covered include: Alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and aromatic compounds; alcohols, phenols, thiols and ethers; aldehydes, ketones and chiral molecules; carboxylic acids and esters; amines and amides; amino acids and proteins; carbohydrates; polymers and polymeric biomaterials; analysis and identification of organic molecules (Spectroscopic techniques (Ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)), chromatographic techniques (Thin layer (TLC), gas (GC), liquid (HPLC), size exclusion (GPC)).

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:3
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 103 and CHEM 103L or consent of the instructor

CHEM 206

Bonding, molecular shapes and stereochemistry in organic compounds. Functional groups, reactivity and mechanisms of basic organic reactions, such as nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution, elimination and addition. Principles of organic synthesis, critical reaction parameters and their optimization. Carbonyl compounds, amines, phenols and their reactions. Synthetic polymers and their applications.

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Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 102 or MATH 107 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 302

Electrochemistry, theory of simple differential equations, rates of chemical reactions, rate laws, kinetics of complex reactions, molecular reaction dynamics, concepts and machinery of statistical thermodynamics, accurate descriptions of molecular structures. Lab component.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 301 or consent of the instructor

CHEM 306

Structural principles in various inorganic and organo-metallic compounds, chemical bonding theories, ligand theory, synthetic and mechanistic aspects of inorganic chemistry.

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Undergraduate Programs
Credit:4
Pre-requisite: CHEM. 204 or consent of the instructor