Special Topics
696

About This Course

696 Special Topics in Chemistry (1-3 cr.) P: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from an accredited institution or consent of instructor. Lectures on selected topics of current interest, as follows:

Analysis and Characterization of Synthetic Polymers: A description of the principles and techniques of solution characterization and molecular weight methods, polymer spectroscopy, thermal analysis, and evaluation of mechanical properties.

Analytical Spectroscopy: Survey of modern techniques, applications of spectroscopy and imaging in analytical chemistry.

Applied Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling: Applied computational techniques that are widely used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, including computational chemistry, molecular modeling and computer-aided synthesis.

Bioanalytical Chemistry: Modern techniques for the study of biological macromolecules, such as protein and peptides, carbohydrates, DNA, RNA, and lipids, including (1) spectroscopy (UV-Vis, Raman, NMR, mass spectrometry, and light scattering); (2) bioseparations (chromatography, electrophoresis, and microdialysis); (3) electrochemistry (sensors, electron transfer, and LCEC); (4) miscellaneous topics (amino acid analysis, sequencing, microcalorimetry, and immunochemistry).

Biochemistry-Dynamic Aspects: Mechanisms of biological catalysis, metabolism, biosynthesis, regulation of genetic information, and molecular biology.

Bioelectrochemistryl: Principles of electrochemical measurements including potentiometry, amperometry and linear sweep and cyclic voltammetry and application to the study and utilization of biological molecules. Topics covered include redox transformations in biological systems, electron transfer between electrodes and biological molecules, and electrochemical sensors for detection and quantitation of biological analytes.

Bioinorganic Chemistry: A study of the occurrence, properties, and mechanistic roles of transition and main group elements in biological processes including photosynthesis, oxygen evolution, respiration, nitrogen fixation, metabolic detoxification, and electron transfer.

Bioorganic Chemistry: Structure and reactivity of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, enzymes, and nucleic acids, and their relevance to bioorganic chemistry. Current experimental studies of enzymes, nucleic acids, and model systems.

Biomaterials: Introduction to the field of biomaterials science including chemistry, physics, and engineering of biomaterials; biological and biochemical aspects of biomaterials; and biomaterials in medicine.

Biophysical Chemistry: The study of structure and properties of biologically important macromolecules in solution using physical techniques, with special emphasis on optical, fluorescence, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to describe protein conformation, denaturation, catalytic center structure, thermodynamics of ligand binding, time dependent processes, and membrane properties.

Chemical Information Technology: Overview of chemical informatics techniques, including chemical information and data systems, chemical structure and data representation and search systems, and bioinformatics techniques.

Electroanalytical Chemistry: Principles of modern methods of electroanalytical chemistry and quantitative applications to electrode reaction mechanisms and analytical determinations.

Medicinal Chemistry: The application of basic concepts of organic chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology to the design of organic medicinal agents as well as recent advances in synthesis and evaluation of pharmaceuticals.

Organometallics in Organic Synthesis: Recent developments in the use of transition metals in synthetic organic methodology. Emphasis is placed on applications of methods in the synthesis of complex organic molecules.

Protein Structure and Function: Physical forces stabilizing protein structure; protein folding. Essential features of macromolecular interactions. Introduction to enzyme kinetics and chemical mechanism in enzyme reactions.

Group Theory in Chemistry: This course is on molecular symmetry and how we obtain information about the quantum states of molecules through application of group theoretical techniques related to the symmetries of molecules.