Spring 2022

Continuation of General Chemistry I. Chemical, equilibrium, kinetics, thermochemistry,, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, inorganic, chemistry. Weekly laboratory exercises, emphasizing quantitative techniques that, complement the lecture material. Lecture,, discussion, laboratory.

Bioorganic chemistry for selected medicinal, compounds. Biophysical and chemical concepts of, drug-receptor interactions and drug action., Biochemical basis for drug action elucidated in, the context of fundamental organic mechanisms.

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.

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.