The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses
Prereq: CHM 3020 and 5420 or 5400 or 5440 or equiv. Transition metal chemistry. Coordination compounds and organometallics. Bonding theories and reactivity. Synthesis, purification, and characterization of inorganic compounds with an emphasis on transition metal compounds. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (F)
Prereq: CHM 5400 or 5420 or 5440 or equiv.; PHY 2180 or equiv. Required of B.S. and ACS-approved B.A. majors. Application of modern instrumental methods to quantitative analysis. Methods that relate instrumental response to chemical concentrations or content. Calibration, data handling, and data evaluation. Emission, flame, infrared, Raman, fluorescence, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Mass spectrometry. Electrochemical methods. Chromatography. (W)
Prereq: CHM 2280 or equiv., MAT 2020 or equiv.; prereq. or coreq: MAT 2030, PHY 2170 or equiv. Presentation of physical chemistry topics: thermodynamics, solution equilibria, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, statistical mechanics, transport processes, and structure with biological applications. (W)
Prereq: CHM 2280, MAT 2020, or equiv.; prereq. or coreq: MAT 2030, PHY 2170 or equiv. Only two credits applicable toward degree after CHM 5400. Chemical thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, solutions, surface chemistry, electrochemistry. (F,W)
Prereq: CHM 2280, MAT 2020 or equiv.; prereq. or coreq: MAT 2030, PHY 2170 or equiv. Only three credits applicable to degree after CHM 5400. Kinetic theory, empirical and theoretical kinetics, quantum theory, atomic and molecular structure, molecular spectroscopy, statistical mechanics. (F,W)
Prereq: CHM 1420, or 2220 and 2230 or equiv. Advanced techniques for the synthesis, purification and characterization of organic compounds. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes
(F)
Prereq. or coreq: CHM 5400 or 5420 or 5440 or equiv., and PHY 2180 or equiv. Principles of measurement. Fundamental investigations of thermodynamics. Fundamental spectroscopic and kinetic measurements. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (F,W)
Prereq. or coreq: CHM 5160 or equiv. Lecture and laboratory experiments covering electronics, measurement, and instrumentation. Principles and analytical applications of electrochemistry, chromatography, and spectroscopy including UV-visible, IR, magnetic resonance, and mass spectroscopy. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (W)
Prereq: CHM 1420 or 2220 or equiv. Protein structure and its relationship to function. Principles of enzyme catalysis. Allosteric regulation of protein function and enzyme catalysis. Pathways of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism in eukaryotic organisms. Introduction to mechanisms of energy coupling and photosynthesis. Information transfer in living systems. Molecular biology. (W)
Topics include: principles of chemistry; descriptive chemistry; inorganic, organic, analytical, physical chemistry; biochemistry. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (I)
Open only to middle- or high school teachers. Prereq: college chemistry and biology. Energetics, atomic theory, molecular theory, computer modeling, structure of small and large molecules. (W,S)
Prereq: CHM 5020 and 5440 or equiv. Symmetry in chemical systems, development and use of character tables. Application of group theory to structure, bonding, spectroscopy and reactions. (F)
Prereq: CHM 1420 or 2220 or equiv. Application of IR, NMR, UV, and mass spectrometry to the identification of organic compounds. Emphasis on interpretation of spectra, especially NMR. Recommended for students intending to do graduate or industrial work in organic chemistry. (W)
Prereq: CHM 1420 or 2220 and BIO 1510 or equiv. Mechanisms of action and metabolism of commonly-used drugs and toxic substances from the cellular level to whole biological systems. (Y)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Aspects of computational chemistry pertinent to effective use of molecular modeling techniques. Molecular mechanics, semi-empirical and ab initio calculations, molecular dynamics. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (W)
Prereq: CHM 6620 or equiv. Open only to chemistry majors. Basic experiments in isolation, purification, and analysis of biomolecules. Techniques currently used in molecular biology and recombinant DNA procedures stressed. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (Y)
Prereq: CHM 2220 or equiv. Major metabolic pathways of carbohydrate, fatty acid, amino acid, and nucleotide synthesis and degradation. Pathways and mechanisms of energy generation. Hormonal and allosteric regulation of enzyme activity. Cannot be used to satisfy the graduate proficiency requirement in biochemistry. (F)
Prereq: CHM 6620 or equiv. Nucleic acid structure and function. Mechanism and control of replication, transcription, and translation. Mutation, genetic recombination, and recombinant DNA. Membranes and organelles. (W)
Not for chemistry major credit. Offered for S and U grades only. Required for all graduate degrees in chemistry. Discussion and demonstration of safe laboratory practice. Use, storage and disposal of ordinary and hazardous substances; personal protection devices; regulations and codes. (F)
Prereq: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Offered for S and U grades only. Introduction to the fundamentals of glassblowing as applied to the repair and fabrication of scientific equipment in the research laboratory. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (I)
Prereq: consent of department. (T)
Prereq: CHM 5020 or equiv. Reactions and reactivity of inorganic compounds. Emphasizes mechanistic and synthetic approaches to transition metal, organometallic, main group chemistry. (F)
Prereq: CHM 6040 or 7040 or equiv. Structure and properties of inorganic compounds. Ligand field theory; electronic, vibrational, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. (I)
Prereq: CHM 5020 and 5440 or equiv. Symmetry in chemical systems, development and use of character tables. Application of group theory to structure, bonding, spectroscopy and reactions. (F)
Prereq: CHM 2280 and 2290 or equiv. Physicochemical principles applied to reaction equilibria and kinetics of analytical importance. Approaches to problem solving in complex systems, principally in the solution phase. (F)
Prereq: consent of instructor. The theory and practice of modern voltammetric methods as applied to analytical, kinetic, and mechanistic studies. (B)
Prereq: CHM 2280 and 2290, or equiv. Application of statistics, chemometrics, and experimental design to the interpretation of chemical measurements; validation of analytical methods; practice and theory of sampling for chemical measurements. (B:F)
Theory and practice of gas-liquid, supercritical fluid, and thin-layer chromatography and capillary electromigration methods. (B)
Prereq: CHM 5160 or equiv. Topics will include ICP, ICP-MS, AA, LIBX, MIPS, etc. Instrumentation concepts. Review of contemporary literature. (W)
Prereq: one year of organic chemistry with laboratory. Structure and stereochemistry of organic molecules. Correlations between structure and chemical and physical properties. Reaction mechanisms.
(F)
Prereq: first year calculus, general chemistry. Introduction to interdisciplinary research field of nanobioscience, at the interphase of biology, chemistry, and physics; specific properties of nanoscale objects. (F)
Prereq: CHM 7200. Alkylation, condensation, and Grignard reactions; synthesis of acid derivatives; cycloadditions and unimolecular rearrangements. Scope and limitations of important synthetic methods of organic chemistry. (W)
Prereq: one year of organic chemistry with laboratory. Application of IR, NMR, UV, and mass spectrometry to the identification of organic compounds. Emphasis on interpretation of spectra, especially NMR. Recommended for students intending to do graduate or industrial work in organic chemistry. (W)
Open only to middle- or high school teachers. Prereq: college chemistry and biology. Concepts such as environmental and green chemistry, stereochemistry and enzyme synthesis, polymer synthesis and uses, light and matter, instrumental analysis and separation science and material science. (F,S)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Statistical methods of determining thermodynamic properties of bulk materials from molecular properties. Real gases at high density, crystals, liquids; phase transitions, transport properties. (B)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Empirical analysis of reaction rates, theories of chemical kinetics, gas phase reactions, molecular collisions and non-thermal reactions, and kinetics in liquids. (B)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Aspects of computational chemistry pertinent to effective use of molecular modeling techniques. Molecular mechanics, semi-empirical and ab initio calculations, molecular dynamics. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (W)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Theorems of quantum mechanics, approximation methods, solutions to simple atomic and molecular systems, electronic structure of many-electron atoms and molecules, chemical bonding. (B)
Prereq: CHM 7470 or equiv. Basic theory of interaction of molecules with the electromagnetic field. Rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectra of molecules; elements of lasers, multiphoton spectroscopy.
(B)
Prereq: CHM 5440 or equiv. Survey of modern methods for performing experiments in chemistry, including: laser techniques, high vacuum methods, time-resolved techniques, surface characterization, electronics and optics, and computer interfacing. (B)
Prereq: CHM 1420 or 2220 or equiv. Introduction to the structure and function of macromolecules of biological importance. Emphasis on bioenergetics, nucleic acid and protein structure and chemical reactivities, enzyme catalysis, enzyme kinetics, carbohydrate and lipid structure and function, and membrane structure. (F)
Prereq: CHM 7600 or equiv. Major metabolic pathways of carbohydrate, fatty acid, amino acid, and nucleotide synthesis and degradation. Pathways and mechanisms of energy generation. Hormonal and allosteric regulation of enzyme activity. Cannot be used to satisfy the graduate proficiency requirement in biochemistry except for those students who receive a conditional pass on Biochemistry Proficiency Examination. (F)
Prereq: CHM 7600 or equiv. Nucleic acid structure and function. Mechanism and control of replication, transcription, and translation. Mutation, genetic recombination, recombinant DNA. Membranes and organelles. (W)
Prereq: CHM 1420 or 2220 or equiv. The role of molecular interactions in determining the structure and reactivity of complex biological molecules. Experimental approaches for evaluating the nature of these interactions. (F)
Prereq: consent of department. (I)
Prereq: graduate standing. Topics offered in different semesters: inorganic synthesis and reactions; organometallic chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; spectroscopy and stereochemistry of inorganic compounds; inorganic reaction mechanisms; photochemistry. (I)
Prereq: CHM 7100 or equiv. The following topics offered in different semesters: sample preparation, surface analysis, analytical mechanisms, advanced instrumentation, computer interfacing. (I)
Prereq: CHM 7200 or equiv. The following topics offered in different semesters: physical-organic chemistry; kinetics of organic reactions; structure-reactivity correlations; reaction mechanisms; molecular orbital theory in organic chemistry; photochemistry; free radical chemistry; polymer chemistry; recent developments in organic chemistry; synthetic strategy; chemistry of natural products including steroids, terpenes, alkaloids, carbohydrates, and proteins. (I)
Prereq: CHM 7010 or 7240 or equiv.; 6040 recommended. Theoretical and practical aspects of modern x-ray crystallography. Training and practice in determination of crystal structure. (I)
Prereq: CHM 7410 or equiv. The following topics offered in different semesters: chemistry of the solid state; electron spin resonance; lasers and nonlinear spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; molecular quantum mechanics; particle and photon scattering: photophysics and photochemistry; radiation and nuclear chemistry; theory of gas phase kinetics. (I)
Prereq: CHM 7620 or equiv. Topics offered in different semesters: applications of spectroscopy to biochemical systems; chemical carcinogenesis; DNA repair; enzyme chemistry; experimental methods in molecular biology; hormone biochemistry; mechanisms of oxygen metabolism; membrane chemistry. (I)
Prereq: consent of adviser. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Required of all graduate students in analytical chemistry. Weekly meetings of staff, invited guests, and qualified students to study recent developments. Each seminar member presents papers and enters into the discussion that follows. (F,W)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Required of all graduate students in organic chemistry. Weekly meetings of staff, invited guests, and qualified students to study recent developments. Each seminar member presents papers and enters into the discussion that follows. (F,W)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Required of all graduate students in inorganic chemistry. Weekly meeting of staff, invited guests, and qualified students to study recent developments. Each seminar member presents papers and enters into the discussion that follows. (F,W)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Required of all graduate students in physical chemistry. Weekly meetings of staff, invited guests, and qualified students to study recent developments. Each seminar member presents papers and enters into the discussion that follows. (F,W)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Open only to chemistry graduate students. Required of all graduate students in biochemistry. Weekly meetings of staff, invited guests, and qualified students to study recent developments. Each seminar member presents papers and participates in discussions. (F,W)
Prereq: graduate standing. Offered for S and U grades only. Fields of fundamental chemistry now under investigation, presented by invited specialists actively engaged in research. (F,W)
Prereq: consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; Ph.D. candidate in department. Required in academic-year semester following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; CHM 9991. Required in academic-year semester following CHM 9991. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; CHM 9992. Required in academic-year semester following CHM 9992. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; CHM 9993. Required in academic-year semester following CHM 9993. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in CHM 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of doctoral adviser. Offered for S and U grades only.
(T)