Graduate
Program - More Organic Course Information
 Organic Chemistry Course
Descriptions:
- Chem 124/224. Spectroscopic Methods for Structural Determination:
Practical spectroscopy including infrared, ultraviolet, mass spectroscopy,
and nuclear magnetic resonance.
- Chem 126/226. Computational Methods:
Applications of molecular orbital theory to organic chemistry. (Not
offered every year.)
- Chem 127/227. Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry:
Electronic structure, resonance, acid/base chemistry, thermodynamics,
kinetics, transition state theory, and isotope effects
- Chem 128/228. Organic Reaction Mechanisms:
mechanisms of thermal, photochemical, organometallic, electrochemical
asymmetric and other processes in organic chemistry
- Chem 129/229. Synthetic Organic Reactions:
A survey of reactions of organic substances with emphasis on those with
practical synthetic utility, including discussion of mechanism, scope
and limitations, and stereochemical issues.
- Chem 132/232. Organometallics in organic synthesis (Not offered every year):
Synthetic methods and applications to natural products total syntheses involving transition metals.
- Chem 134/234. Chemical Synthesis of Biological Molecules (Not offered every year):
The synthesis, manipulation, and modification of biological molecules including peptides, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and other metabolites are essential to advances in biomedicine. This course surveys chemical methods for the production of these molecules and their application to biological problems.
- Chem 163/263. Arrow pushing in organic chemistry:
Covers the arrow pushing formulasism and addresses molecular rearrangements and other organic reactions from this perspective.
- Chem 223. Current Events in Organic Chemistry:
Faculty and students present and critically discuss current chemical literature.
- Chem 233. Organic Synthetic Strategy:
A comprehensive discussion of synthetic strategies used for the construction
of natural products and pharmaceuticals (Not offered every year.)
- Chem 239. Selected Topics in Organic Chemistry:
Course may be repeated with a different topic. Selected topics in organic
chemistry. The contents of this course will vary from instructor. Topics
have included asymmetric synthesis and organometallic chemistry. (Not
offered every year.)
- Chem 290. Seminar in Chemistry
A 45 min presentation on a topic of the student's choice, required once
of all chemistry graduate students.
- Chem 293. Faculty Research Seminar:
A series of seminars by department faculty describing their active research
projects.
- Chem 501A-B-C. Techniques of Teaching and Laboratory Class:
An initial 2-3 day workshop is followed by weekly discussion. Topics
covered: laboratory organization, supervising experiments, safety, presentations,
leading discussions, writing quizzes, advising, and grading. Aimed at
new teaching assistants.
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