Courses:
| CHEM 210 - Organic Chemistry I: | |
| Organic chemistry is an essential subject for many scientific disciplines, particularly those in the life, materials, and chemical sciences as well as chemical engineering. The fundamentals of organic chemistry, as developed in Chemistry 210, the first part of a two semester organic chemistry sequence, are required for scientists to understand the electronic structure and reactivity of simple and complex molecules. Organic chemistry is built on a few and relatively simple concepts that allow a large but highly interconnected discipline to be easily understood. Successful students will not only understand and be able to apply organic chemistry, but they will have developed the capabilities and skills to solve other difficult problems in their own careers. Concepts taught in CHEM 210 include bonding, molecular orbital theory, valence bond theory, hybridization, Lewis acids and bases, isomer, functional groups and their reactivity, organic reaction mechanisms, electrophiles, nucleophiles, electrophilic addition reactions, nucleophilic substitutions, elimination reactions, stereochemistry, and aromaticity. The chemistry of alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, dienes, aromatic molecules, alcohols, and ethers is covered. |
 Ethanol |
| CHEM 212 - Organic Chemistry II: | |
| This course will continue to build upon the important concepts learned in the prerequisite course, CHEM 210, with an emphasis on reactions mechanisms and organic synthesis. The course will begin with conceptually new material that will be applied in the laboratory course, namely, the elucidation of the structures of organic compounds using mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The majority of the new material is concerned with the chemistry of carbonyl compounds and includes: 1) the nucleophilic addition reactions of ketones and aldehydes; 2) nucleophilic acyl substitution reactions of acid chlorides, anhydrides, esters and amides; 3) carbonyl alpha-substitution reactions and 4) carbonyl condensation reactions. The latter part of the course will be concerned with biologically relevant compounds such as amines, amino acids/peptides/proteins and carbohydrates. |
 Trinitrotoluene (TNT) |
| BMB 401 - General Biochemistry I: | |
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This upper-level course is investigates the principles
of the structure and function of biological molecules,
including carbohydrates, lipids, membranes, proteins,
and enzymes. Importantly, if you’ve ever wondered about
the following, you can find the answers in Biochemistry
401!
• How DNA fingerprinting works |
 Hemoglobin |
| BMB 402 - General Biochemistry II: | |
 Sodium-Potassium Ion Channel |
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| This upper-level course continues the exploration of biological molecules through a comprehensive survey of the pathways and regulation of intermediary metabolism. Building on the information learned in B M B 401, this course will expand your knowledge of many of the seemingly mundane biochemical pathways that control our everyday bodily functions – both when they are working and our body is healthy, and what goes wrong to create a diseased state. |