Chemistry

Covers chemical and physical change, measurement, matter and energy, atomic and molecular structure, quantum theory, periodicity, the mole, stoichiometry, descriptive surveys of the elements and their compounds, metallurgy, redox reactions and introductions to qualitative and quantitative analysis, solutions and equilibria.

Covers the remainder of the non-metals and transition metals from CH 111, enthalpy, calorimetry, Avogadro’s law, PV=NRT, liquids, solids, solutions, colligative, colloids, equilibrium, kinetics, mechanisms, catalysis, acid-base models, pH buffers, complex ions, entropy, electrochemistry, coordination compounds, nuclear reactions, and brief introductions to organic and biochemistry.

Theory and practice of gravimetric, volumetric, spectrophotometric electroanalytical and chromatographic methods of analysis.

Covers bonding, orbitals, molecular structure, nomenclature, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl ahllides, organometallics, nitriles, alcohols, ethers, and spectroscopy. One 5 hour lab per week.

Covers continuing nomenclature and stereochemistry, structure, conformation, properties, synthesis and reaction of the functional groups; aromatic compounds, heterocycles, conjugated systems, aldehydes, ketones, amines, carboxylic acids and their derivative, enols carbohydrates, nucleic acids, amino acids, peptides, proteins, lipids, and synthetic polymers, and spectroscopy not covered in the first semester, qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques, synthesis strategy, and terpenoid and alkaloid natural products. One 5 hour lab per week.

Reading or research at a greater depth than in a normal class.

Covers reviews of cell structure, aqueous solutions and thermodynamics, amino acids, protein purification, primary structures, hemoglobin in detail, rates & mechanisms of enzymatic catalysis. Carbohydrate, Lipid and Nucleic acid structure and function. DNA technologies. One 3 hour lab per week.

Covers metabolism, enzymology, glycolysis, glycogen metabolism, Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, lipid metabolism, amino acid & protein metabolism, photosynthesis, membrane transport, organ specialization, molecular genetics, nucleotide structure, synthesis & degradation, nucleic acid manipulation, transcription, translation and replication, gene expression, and molecular physiology. This course may be used as a biology major elective. One 3 hour lab per week.

Reading or research at a greater depth than in a normal class.