Chemistry

Chemistry of aldehydes and ketones (reactions at
and adjacent to the carbonyl group, enolization,
conjugate addition, oxidation, reduction).
Lecture, conference, laboratory. Synthesis,
chemistry of carboxylic acids and derivatives (pKa
of acids, nucleophilic substitution of
derivatives, acyl chlorides, esters, amides,
anhydrides, nitriles). Carbohydrates
(stereochemistry, aldoketoses, aldopentoses,
aldohexoses, ketosugars, derivatives, furanose and
pyranose forms, reducing and nonreducing sugars,
disaccharides and polysaccharides); fats and oils;
aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, resonance and
molecular orbital approaches, electrophilic and
nucleophilic aromatic substitution); aromatic
nitrogen and oxygen chemistry (diazotization,
synthesis); chemistry of amines, amino acids,
peptides, proteins, DNA; other topics. Lecture,
discussion, laboratory.

Modern concepts of inorganic and transition-metal
chemistry with emphasis on bonding, structure,
thermodynamics, kinetics and mechanisms, and
periodic and family relationships. Atomic
structure, theories of bonding, symmetry,
molecular shapes (point groups), crystal
geometries, acid-base theories, survey of familiar
elements, boron hydrides, solid-state materials,
nomenclature, crystal field theory, molecular
orbital theory, isomerism, geometries, magnetic
and optical phenomena, spectra, synthetic methods,
organometallic compounds, cage structures,
clusters, lanthanides, actinides.