For the M.S.
For the Ph.D.
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| Regularly Offered Graduate Courses |
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| The following are graduate courses in chemistry (3150). A complete listing of courses offered in other departments and further information about the courses listed here can be viewed in The University of Akron Graduate Bulletin. |
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| 501 Biochemistry I, 502 Biochemistry II |
| Biochemistry of amino acids and proteins; enzymes role as biocatalysts; structure, biochemistry of nucleotides, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids; energy storage and utilization. Carbohydrate, lipid and amino acid metabolism; protein, nucleotide and nucleic acid biosynthesis; and gene function. |
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| 563 Advanced Organic Chemistry |
| Introduction to the study of mechanisms of organic reactions. |
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| 572 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry |
| Concepts of atomic structure integrated in systematic classification of elements. Periodic table. Chemistry of the representative elements. Transition elements, including coordination compounds, organometallics and metal carbonyls. |
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| 603 Biochemistry Lecture III |
| DNA, RNA and protein metabolism. Translation and transcription. Gene function and expression. Molecular biology. |
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| 610 Basic Quantum Chemistry |
| Quantum mechanics with applications to molecular systems. Including angular momentum, molecular hamiltonians, variation and perturbation methods, and molecular orbital theories. |
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| 611 Spectroscopy |
| Interaction of light with matter, linear and nonlinear spectroscopies. Rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopies. Radiationless transitions and photochemistry. |
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| 619 Transition-Metal Organometallics |
| The organometallic chemistry of the transition metal elements. Topics covered include synthesis, characterization methods, structure, bonding reactivity and application. |
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| 620 Main Group Organometallics |
| The organometallic chemistry of main group elements. Topics covered include synthesis, characterization methods, structure, bonding, reactivity and applications. |
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| 621 Advanced Preparations I |
| Methods for preparing and purifying organic and inorganic compounds. Laboratory. |
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| 629 Physical Inorganic Chemistry |
| Spectroscopy including multinuclear NMR, UV-Vis and IR as applied to inorganic and organometallic systems. Group theoretical applications, ligand field theory, kinetics and mechanisms, magnetism, electronic spectra and molecular orbital theory. |
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| 630 Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry |
| Detailed treatment of chemistry of transition elements. Group theoretical applications, ligand field theory, kinetics and mechanism, electronic spectra, molecular orbital theory. |
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| 635 Thermodynamics and Statistical Thermodynamics |
| Rigorous treatment of the laws of thermodynamics and their applications to selected chemical systems. Fundamentals of statistical thermodynamics and applications to systems in chemical equilibrium. |
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| 636 Chemical Kinetics II |
| Phenomenological kinetics, experimental methods of investigation and analysis of reaction systems. Theoretical treatments of reaction rates. |
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| 639 Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry |
| The synthesis, characterization, structure, bonding and reactivity of inorganic compounds. Emphasis is placed on applications and on examples from the recent literature. |
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| 640 Chemical Separations |
| General theory, instrumentation and application of methods of separation. Emphasis on modern chromatographic techniques and recent advances. |
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| 641 Spectral Methods |
| Theory and application of instrumental measurements. Interpretation of data. |
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| 645 X-ray Crystallography |
| The theoretical and practical aspects of single crystal X-ray crystallography are discussed. Topics covered include diffraction, space groups, structure solution and refinement. |
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| 670 Spectroscopic Identification of Org. Cpds |
| Determination of the structures of organic compounds by spectroscopic analysis: ORD/CD, UV-VIS spectroscopy IR spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, FT-NMR spectroscopy and 2D-NMR. |
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683 Mechanistic and Synthetic Organic Chemistry I
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Introduction to the structural and mechanistic aspects of organic reactions: HMO calculations, acids and bases, equilibrium, kinetics, linear free energy relationships, reactive intermediates and reaction mechanism.
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| 684 Mechanistic and Synthetic Organic Chemistry II |
| Synthetic organic chemistry from a mechanistic perspective: nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution and addition reactions, carbonyl chemistry, functional group manipulations, oxidations, reductions and cycloaddition reactions. |
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| 710 Special Topics: Analytical Chemistry |
| Topics in advanced analytical chemistry. Electroanalysis, activation analysis, atomic absorption spectrometry, mass spectrometry, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and gas chromatography, ion exchange, thermoanalytical methods, separation, standards, sampling, recent developments. |
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| 711 Special Topics: Inorganic Chemistry |
| Consideration of topics in modern inorganic chemistry such as coordination compounds, chemistry of the solid state, representative elements, nonaqueous solvents, organometallic compounds, homogeneous catalysis, clusters and inorganic backbone polymers. |
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| 712 Special Topics: Organic Chemistry |
| Topics in advanced organic chemistry such as natural products, heterocyclic compounds, photochemistry. |
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| 713 Special Topics: Physical Chemistry |
| Subjects from modern physical chemistry including spectroscopy, photochemistry and free radicals in chemistry and biology. |
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| 715 Special Topics: Biochemistry |
| Consideration of topics in biochemistry such as isoenzymes and disease, genetic engineering, biopolymers and biomaterials. |
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| 724 Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Survey of the structure and properties of metal ion complexes with amino acids, nucleotides, metabolites and macromolecules; metal ion metabolism; metals in medicine. |
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| 726 Advanced Metabolism |
| Study of advanced pathways in carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism with emphasis placed on metabolic dysfunction. |
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| 740 Physical Organic Chemistry |
| An advanced treatment of the theory and mechanisms of organic chemistry: FMO theory, molecular mechanics, molecular strain, kinetics, thermodynamics, acidity functions, linear free energy relationships. |
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| 750 Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry |
| An advanced treatment of organic functional group manipulations in the context of the total synthesis of natural products. |
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