CHEM -- Chemistry

CHEM 401 Inorganic Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 243 or CHEM 247.

CHEM 403 Radiochemistry (3) Prerequisite: one year of college chemistry and one year of college physics. Radioactive decay; introduction to properties of atomic nuclei; nuclear processes in cosmology; chemical, biomedical and environmental applications of radioactivity; nuclear processes as chemical tools; interaction of radiation with matter.

CHEM 421 Advanced Quantitative Analysis (3) Pre- or corequisites: CHEM 482 and CHEM 483. An examination of some advanced topics in quantitative analysis including nonaqueous titrations, precipitation phenomena, complex equilibria, and the analytical chemistry of the less familiar elements.

CHEM 425 Instrumental Methods of Analysis (3) One hour of lecture, six hours of laboratory, and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 227 or CHEM 153. Modern instrumentation in analytical chemistry. Electronics, spectroscopy, chromatography and electrochemistry.

CHEM 441 Advanced Organic Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 481. An advanced study of the compounds of carbon, with special emphasis on molecular orbital theory and organic reaction mechanisms.

CHEM 450 Ethics in Science and Engineering (3) Prerequisite: 8 credits laboratory science or permission of department. Ethical issues in science and their resolutions. Topics will be ethics and scientific truth, ethics and other scientists, and ethics and society.

CHEM 460 Structure Determination Using Spectroscopic Methods (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 243 or CHEM 247. Formerly CHEM 660. The use of infrared, ultraviolet-visible, proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy for structure determination in organic chemistry.

CHEM 474 Environmental Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 481 or equivalent. The sources of various elements and chemical reactions between them in the atmosphere and hydrosphere are treated. Causes and biological effects of air and water pollution by certain elements are discussed.

CHEM 481 Physical Chemistry I (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 113 or CHEM 153 or CHEM 133; and MATH 141; and PHYS 142. A course primarily for chemists and chemical engineers.

CHEM 482 Physical Chemistry II (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 481. A course primarily for chemists and chemical engineers.

CHEM 483 Physical Chemistry Laboratory I (2) One hour lecture-recitation and one three-hour laboratory period per week Corequisite: CHEM 481. An introduction to the principles and application of quantitative techniques in physical chemical measurements. Experiments will be coordinated with topics in CHEM 481.

CHEM 484 Physical Chemistry Laboratory II (2) One hour lecture-recitation and one three-hour laboratory period per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 481 and CHEM 483. Corequisite: CHEM 482. A continuation of CHEM 483. Advanced quantitative techniques necessary in physical chemical measurements. Experiments will be coordinated with topics in CHEM 482.

CHEM 485 Advanced Physical Chemistry (2) Prerequisite: CHEM 482. Quantum chemistry and other selected topics.

CHEM 487 Computer Applications in the Biological and Chemical Sciences (4) Three hours of lecture, three hours of laboratory, and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 113 and CHEM 287 or equivalent; and knowledge of a scientific programming language (PASCAL, FORTRAN or "C"). The utilization of computers to solve chemical and biological problems, with emphasis on the utilization of available software rather than "de novo" programming.

CHEM 491 Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory (4) One hour of lecture and 10 hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 243. Formerly CHEM 433 and CHEM 443. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: CHEM 433 and CHEM 443 or CHEM 491. Advanced synthetic techniques in organic chemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopy for structure determination.

CHEM 492 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (3) One hour of lecture and eight hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: CHEM 401. Synthetic and structural inorganic chemistry. Emphasis on spectroscopy methods for structure determination. Students complete an individual special project. (Designed to satisfy the university requirement for a capstone course in chemistry.)

CHEM 498 Special Topics in Chemistry (3) Three lectures or two lectures and one three-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite varies with the nature of the topic being considered. Course may be repeated for credit if the subject matter is substantially different, but not more than three credits may be accepted in satisfaction of major supporting area requirements for chemistry majors.

CHEM 503 Physical Science for Elementary/Middle School Teachers III (4) Three hours of lecture, three hours of laboratory, and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. A second-level survey of major chemistry concepts, with emphasis on the properties and behavior of common substances. Types of chemical reactions, the relationship between molecular structure and reactivity, periodicity, oxidation-reduction, acids and bases, equilibrium, and practical applications of chemistry. The laboratory portion of the course supports skills/understandings needed to prepare teachers for this aspect of physical science education.

CHEM 504 Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (4) Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 503 or equivalent. A one-semester survey of organic chemistry and biochemistry. The chemistry of carbon: aliphatic compounds, aromatic compounds, stereochemistry, halides, amines, amides, acids, esters, carbohydrates, and natural products. The laboratory experiments deal with synthetic and analytical organic activities.

CHEM 513 Principles of Chemistry II (4) Three lectures and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 503 or equivalent. A continuation of the advanced survey of topics started in CHEM 503. Kinetics, thermodynamics, ionic equilibria, oxidation-reduction, electrochemistry, and the chemistry of common metals and nonmetals. Quantitative problem solving. Laboratory experiments, mostly quantitative in nature, support the topics developed in the lectures.

CHEM 521 Quantitative Analysis (4) Two lectures and two three-hour laboratories per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 115 or equivalent. Volumetric, gravimetric, electrometric and colorimetric methods in analytical inorganic chemistry.

CHEM 601 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 401 or equivalent. A survey of the fundamentals of modern inorganic chemistry as a basis for more advanced work.

CHEM 602 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry II (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 601 or permission of instructor. A continuation of CHEM 601 with emphasis on the application of contemporary spectroscopic techniques to inorganic problems.

CHEM 605 Chemistry of Coordination Compounds (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 601 or permission of instructor. A study of coordination compounds and their reactivity.

CHEM 606 Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 601. An in-depth treatment of the properties of compounds having metal-carbon bonds.

CHEM 608 Selected Topics in Inorganic Chemistry (1-3) Prerequisite: CHEM 601 and CHEM 602, or equivalent. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Topics of special interest and current importance.

CHEM 623 Optical Methods of Quantitative Analysis (3) Prerequisites: CHEM 421 and CHEM 482 or equivalent. The quantitative applications of various methods of optical spectroscopy.

CHEM 624 Electrical Methods of Quantitative Analysis (3) Prerequisites: CHEM 421 and CHEM 482 or equivalent. The use of conductivity, potentiometry, polarography, voltammetry, amperometry, coulometry, and chronopotentiometry in quantitative analysis.

CHEM 625 Separation Methods in Quantitative Analysis (3) Prerequisites: CHEM 421 and CHEM 482 or equivalent. The theory and application for quantitative analysis of various forms of chromatography, ion exchange, solvent extraction, distillation, and mass spectroscopy.

CHEM 637 Atmospheric Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: METO 620 or CHEM 481 or permission of department. Also offered as METO 637. Application of the techniques of thermodynamics, kinetics, and photochemistry to atmospheric gases in an effort to understand the global cycles of C, H, O, N and S Species; the use of laboratory and field measurements in models of the atmosphere.

CHEM 640 Problems in Organic Reaction Mechanisms (1) A tutorial type course dealing with the basic description of the fundamentals of writing organic reaction mechanisms.

CHEM 641 Organic Reaction Mechanisms (3)

CHEM 643 Organic Chemistry of High Polymers (2) An advanced course covering the synthesis of monomers, mechanisms of polymerization, and the correlation between structure and properties in high polymers.

CHEM 647 Organic Synthesis (3) The use of new reagents in organic reactions; multistep syntheses leading to natural products of biological interest; stereospecific and regiospecific reactions and their use in total synthesis.

CHEM 648 Special Topics in Organic Chemistry (1-3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Topics of special interest and current importance.

CHEM 650 Problems in Organic Synthesis (1) A tutorial type course dealing with mechanistic problems from the current literature of organic sysnthesis.

CHEM 678 Special Topics in Environmental Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 474. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. In-depth treatment of environmental chemistry problem areas of current research interest. The topics will vary somewhat from year to year.

CHEM 682 Reaction Kinetics (3)

CHEM 684 Chemical Thermodynamics (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 482 or equivalent.

CHEM 687 Statistical Mechanics and Chemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 684 or equivalent.

CHEM 688 Selected Topics in Physical Chemistry (2) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs.

CHEM 689 Special Topics in Physical Chemistry (3) Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.

CHEM 690 Quantum Chemistry I (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 485.

CHEM 691 Quantum Chemistry II (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 690 or PHYS 622.

CHEM 699 Special Problems in Chemistry (1-6) Prerequisite: one semester of graduate study in chemistry. Restricted to students in the non-thesis M.S. option. Repeatable to 6 credits. Laboratory experience in a research environment.

CHEM 701 Teaching Chemistry (1) For LFSC graduate students only. Introduction to instructional methods and strategies, University and College policies, and campus resources for new LFSC graduate teaching assistants.

CHEM 705 Nuclear Chemistry (3) Nuclear structure models, radioactive decay processes, nuclear reactions in complex nuclei, fission, nucleosynthesis and nuclear particle accelerators.

CHEM 723 Marine Geochemistry (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 481 or equivalent. The geochemical evolution of the ocean; composition of sea water, density-chlorinity-salinity relationship and carbon dioxide system. The geochemistry of sedimentation with emphasis on the chemical stability and inorganic and biological production of carbonate, silicate and phosphate containing minerals.

CHEM 729 Special Topics in Geochemistry (1-3) Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. A discussion of current research problems.

CHEM 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6)

CHEM 898 Seminar (1)

CHEM 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8)