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CHM 6155: Spectrochemical Methods (3) Principles of atomic
and molecular spectrometric methods; discussion of
instrumentation, methodology, applications.
CHM 6158C: Electronics and Instrumentation (1-4; max: 6)
Principles of operation of instruments, optimization of instrumental
conditions, and interpretation of instrumental data for qualitative
and quantitative analysis.
CHM 6159: Mass Spectrometric Methods (3) Modern
spectrometry including fundamentals, instrumentation, and
analytical applications.
CHM 6165: Chemometrics (3) Prereq: graduate standing.
Analytical method, information theory, and chemometrics, including
statistical data analysis, heuristic and non-heuristic data analysis
(pattern recognition and artificial intelligence), and experimental
design and optimization.
CHM 6180: Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry (1-3; max:
9) Prereq: two courses of graduate level analytical chemistry.
Lectures or conferences covering selected topics of current interest
in analytical chemistry.
CHM 6190: Analytical Chemistry Seminar (1; max: 20)
Attendance required of graduate majors in the analytical area.
graduate course in analytical chemistry. Presentation of one
seminar. S/U option.
CHM 6225: Advanced Principles of Organic Chemistry (4)
Prereq: CHM 2211. Principles of organic chemistry and their
application to reaction mechanisms.
CHM 6226: Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry (3) Prereq:
CHM 6225. Discussion and application of synthetic methodology.
CHM 6227: Topics in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2) Prereq:
CHM 6226. Synthesis of complex organic molecules, with emphasis
on recent developments in approaches and methods.
CHM 6251: Organometallic Compounds (3) Properties of
organometallic compounds, the nature of the carbon-metal bond,
compounds of metals in groups 1, 2, 3, and 4, and transition
metals.
CHM 6271: The Chemistry of High Polymers (2) Fundamental
polymer chemistry, with emphasis on the mechanisms of
polymerization reactions and the relationship of physical properties
to chemical constitution.
CHM 6301: Enzyme Mechanisms (3) Principles of enzyme
structure; isolation and purification; physical chemistry of
enzyme/substrate interactions; general overview of classes;
transition state theory and catalysis; types of chemical catalysis;
survey of cofactors; example mechanisms; catalytic antibodies;
ribozyme structure and catalysis.
CHM 6302: Chemistry and Biology of Nucleic Acids (3)
Principles of nucleic acid structure and function; protein/nucleic acid
interactions with particular emphasis on transcriptional regulators
and DNA and RNA polymerases; chemistry of phosphate hydrolysis
and its application to enzyme mechanisms; evolution of novel RNA
molecules capable of specific binding and catalysis.