Undergraduate Courses

Lecture and Laboratory Courses

107 General Chemistry 1 (3)
Corequisite: 107. Laboratory to accompany 107. 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 107 required. Credit will not be given for both 117 and H111.

108 General Chemistry II (3)
Prerequisite: 107 and 117. Corequisite: 118. The chemistry of solutions, equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 118 required. Credit will not be given for both 108 and H110.

117 General Chemistry Laboratory I (1)
Corequisite: 107. Laboratory to accompany 107. 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 107 required. Credit will not be given for both 117 and H111.

118 General Chemistry Laboratory II (1)
Prequisite: 117. Corequisite: 108. A continuation of 117. Experiments to illustrate principles of chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, kinetics, thermodynamics, qualitative and quantitative analysis. One four-hour laboratory per week. Concurrent registration in 108 required. Credit will not be given for both 118 and H112.

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231 Quantitative Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: 108 and 118, or equivalent or instructor approval. Corequisite: 233. Basic theory of gravimetric, volumetric and selected instrumental methods of analysis. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 233 required. Offered in alternate years.

233 Quantitative Analysis Laboratory (1)
Prerequisites: 108 and 118, or equivalent. Corequisite: 231. Laboratory to accompany 231. Practice of gravimetric, volumetric and selected instrumental methods of analysis. Two four-hour laboratory periods per week. Concurrent registration in 231 required. Offered in alternate years.

241 Organic Chemistry I (3)
Prerequisites: 108 and 118, or equivalent. Corequisite: 243. An introduction to the structural, chemical, and physical properties of organic compounds. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 243 required. Credit will not be given for both 241 and H245.

242 Organic Chemistry II (3)
Prerequisites: 241 and 243. Corequisite: 244. A continuation of 241 with emphasis on areas of current interest. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 244 required. Credit will not be given for both 242 and H246.

243 Organic Chemistry Laboratory I (1)
Prerequisites: 108 and 118, or equivalent. Corequisite: 241. Laboratory to accompany 241. Introduction to laboratory techniques in organic chemistry. Synthesis of organic compounds. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 241 required. Credit will not be given for both 243 and H247.

244 Organic Chemistry Laboratory II (1)
Prerequisites: 243. Corequisite: 242. Laboratory to accompany 242. A continuation of 243. Includes identification of unknown organic compounds. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 242 required. Credit will not be given for both 244 and H248.

250 Environmental Chemistry (3)
Prerequisite: 107, 108 or 241. 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.

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305 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 605 and Cell and Molecular Biology 305. Lectures only. Does not count toward the major in chemistry.

311 Physical Chemistry I (3)
Prerequisites: 108, 118 and Mathematics 224 or equivalent. Pre-requisites or corequiisites: Physics 131 and 132. Corequistie: 313. Elementary quantum mechanics, quantum theory of molecular structure and bonding, fundamentals of spectroscopy. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 313 required.

312 Physical Chemistry II (3)
Prerequisites: 108, 118 and Mathematics 221 or equivalent. Corequistie: 314. 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.

313 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I (1)
Prerequisites: 108, 118 and Mathematics 244 or equivalent. Prerequisties or corequisites: Physics 131 and 132. Corequisite: 311. Laboratory to accompany 311. Experiments in spectroscopy and spectroscopic analysis. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 311 required.

314 Physical Chemistry Laboratory II (1)
Prerequisites: 108, 118 and Mathematics 221 or equivalent. Corequisite: 312 or 612. Knowledge of FORTRAN recommended. Laboratory to accompany 312. Experiments illustrate thermodynamic and statistical mechanical principles. One four-hour laboratory period per week. Concurrent registration in 312 or 612 required.

321 Inorganic Chemistry (3)
Corequisite: 323. Periodic relationships, types of bonding, coordination complexes, acid-base concepts, inorganic reaction mechanisms. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 323 required..

323 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite or corequisite: 311 and 313. Corequisite: 321. Laboratory to accompany 321. Synthetic methods in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Use of instrumental methods in organic chemistry. One four-hour laboraotry period per week. Concurrent registration in 321 required.

331 Instrumental Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: 108, 118 and either 241 and 243 or H245 and H247. Corequisite: 333. Introduction to modern methods of instrumental analysis including separation techniques and spectroscopic and electrochemical methods. Three hours of lecture per week. Concurrent registration in 333 required. Offered in alternate years.

333 Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (1)
Prerequisite: 108, 118 and either 241 and 243 or H245 and H247. Corequisite: 331. Laboratory to accompany 331. 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.

341 Intermediate Organic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisite: 242 or H246. 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.

383 Introduction to Biochemistry (3)
Prerequisite: 242. Properties of biological compounds. Bioenergetics, basic metabolic pathways, general biochemical mechanisms. Offered jointly with the cell and molecular biology department.

384 Intermediate Biochemistry (3)
Prerequisite: 383. 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.

385 Introduction to Biochemistry Laboratory (1)
Corequisite: 383 (exemption by approval of instructor.) Eight hours of laboratory per week. Offered  in the Fall semester.

391 Special Topics (3)
Special topics in chemistry. For description, consult department.

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401 Research and Seminar (1 or 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.

402 Research and Seminar (1 or 3)
Same as 401 in organization. A maximum of three credits may be taken.

423 Organometallic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisite: 321 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.

612 Physical Biochemistry (3)
Prerequisites: 108, 118 and Mathematics 122. Corequisite: 314. 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 314 required.

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