Laboratory course. In consultation with the course co-ordinator, and subject to availability, students may select experiments as are relevant to their...
A discussion of recent advances in analytical chemistry and its applications to the environmental, materials and biomedical fields. At least four...
The fundamentals of statistical mechanics with applications to thermodynamic properties of gases, liquids and solids and to chemical equilibrium in...
The application of quantum mechanics to chemical structures, energetics, internal motions of molecules, and chemical reactions. An introduction to the...
An advanced treatment of the concepts and applications of catalysis, including the kinetics of catalysis and topics selected from the areas of...
Modern spectroscopic methods for the structural and electronic characterisation of molecules will be discussed, including: NMR, X-ray and...
Modern synthetic methods in organic chemistry. Principles of strategy in planning organic syntheses based on simple classifications of reagents and...
An examination of aspects of modern inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Topics will include metal-ligand bonding in organometallic complexes,...
Specific properties of polymers (glass transition, crystallinity, polydispersity, etc.) and their dependence on macromolecular structure and...
Four topics covering a range of self-assembled molecular systems will be discussed:
A full-year research project on a topic in chemistry, supervised by a member of staff. Normally limited to students in the final year of a major or...
A Fall Term research project on a topic in chemistry, supervised by a member of staff. Normally limited to students in the final year of a major or...
A Winter Term research project on a topic in chemistry, supervised by a member of staff. Normally limited to students in the final year of a major or...
An introduction to chemistry of main group inorganic and organic compounds with the use of fundamental quantum mechanics, molecular orbital diagrams...
An introduction to the kinetics and mechanisms of reactions in gaseous and condensed phases, including acid-base and nucleophilic substitution...
Introduction to analytical chemical methods and science. Topics include statistical analysis of data, titrations and equilibrium theory,...
A survey of practical spectroscopic and spectrometric methods for the determination of the structures of organic and inorganic compounds. Methods will...
A survey of organic functional group reactivity from a mechanistic perspective, including substitution, addition, elimination, rearrangement and redox...
An introduction to the basic principles of organic chemistry with emphasis on bonding, stereochemistry, reaction intermediates and reaction...
Fundamental mechanistic concepts of organic reactions, structure-activity relationships, solvent effects and catalysis.