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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Undergraduate Bulletin of Information 2001-2002CHEM 3061. FUNDAMENTALS OFORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANDBIOCHEMISTRY I. Four credit hours. Threehours of lecture and one four-hour laboratory perweek. Prerequisite: CHEM 3002 or CHEM3042.Principles of organic chemistry; the chemistry oforganic functional groups and reactionmechanisms, emphasizing their importance inbiochemistry.CHEM 3062. FUNDAMENTALS OFORGANIC CHEMISTRY ANDBIOCHEMISTRY II. Four credit hours. Threehours of lecture and one four-hour laboratory perweek. Prerequisite: CHEM 3061.Fundamental concepts of biochemistry; thenature and properties of compounds ofbiochemical interest.CHEM 3065. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY II.Four credit hours. Three hours of lecture andone four-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite:CHEM 3025.Theory and practice of optical spectroscopy,electroanalytical methods, and modernseparation techniques.CHEM 3071-3072. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.Four credit hours. Three hours of lecture andone four-hour laboratory per week per semester.Prerequisite: CHEM 3042 or CHEM 3002. Forchemistry majors.A study of the reactions, methods of preparationand theories on structure of organic compounds,with emphasis on the mechanisms of organicreactions.CHEM 3085. ENVIRONMENTALCHEMISTRY. Three credit hours. Three hoursof lecture per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 3002or CHEM 3042.Effect of man's activities upon the biosphere,with particular emphasis on the chemistry of theprocesses involved.CHEM 3141. PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL,ORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYI. Four credit hours. Three hours of lecture andone two-hour laboratory per week.Principles of general and organic chemistry withemphasis on biological applications in suchtopics as: atoms, molecules, states of matter,solutions, and organic functional groups.CHEM 3142. PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL,ORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRYII. Four credit hours. Three hours of lecture andone two-hour laboratory per week. Prerequisite:CHEM 3141.Principles of general and organic chemistry withemphasis on biological applications in suchtopics as: isomerism, carbohydrates, lipids,proteins, nucleic acids, metabolism.CHEM 3335. INTRODUCTION TO FOODCHEMISTRY. Three credit hours. Three hoursof lecture per week. Prerequisites: CHEM 3002or CHEM 3042.Basic aspects of the relationships of foodchemistry to health, nutrition, and industry.CHEM 3450. FUNDAMENTALS OFORGANIC CHEMISTRY. Five credit hours.Four hours of lecture and one four-hourlaboratory per week. Prerequisite: CHEM 3002or CHEM 3042.Properties, reactions, synthesis, and reactionmechanisms of organic compounds.CHEM 3461. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: CHEM 3002 or CHEM3042.Nomenclature, structure, preparation, andreactions of non-aromatic and alkyl halides.CHEM 3462. ORGANIC CHEMISTRYLABORATORY I. One credit hour. One fourhourlaboratory per week. Corequisite: CHEM3461.Experimental techniques in organic chemistry:separation; purification; reactions of nonaromatichydrocarbons and alkyl halides; polarimetry.CHEM 3463. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II.Three credit hours. Three hours of lecture perweek. Prerequisite: CHEM 3461. Corequisite:CHEM 3462.121