Lectures by visiting scientists and occasionally by staff members and graduate students on topics of current research. Meets once a week. Required for all graduate students in chemistry. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Current research in the area of structural inorganic chemistry. Concerns topics related to electronic and molecular structure of transition metal complexes. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in chromatography, trace analysis,and environmental chemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in electrochemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses advances in atmospheric aerosol chemistry, with emphasis on new methods for analysis and their application to laboratory and field studies. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Recommended prereqs., CHEM 5151, 5181. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics in atmospheric chemistry emphasizing the structure and reactivity of atmospheric particulates. Presentations on current research and critical evaluations of recent literature. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discussion of contemporary synthetic organic chemistry with a focus on new methodology and total synthesis of natural products. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Current research in areas of organic free radical chemistry, photochemistry, and related topics are presented and discussed. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Application of contemporary ideas of chemical physics to organic molecules. Special attention to structures and bonding in organic ions and radicals. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Series of seminars on directed total synthesis. Emphasizes modern synthetic methodology and applications to total synthesis of natural products. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses the brief history of the emerging field of chemical genetics, and focuses on the recent development of concepts, techniques, applications, and its impact on both science and human health. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Includes development and application of picosecond laser spectroscopy to organic and organometallic reactions. Emphasizes relationship between current theoretical developments and experiments. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses current topics and recent advances in molecular self-assembly, with emphasis on new liquid crystal designs and applications. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Modern experimental techniques and theoretical models in physical organic chemistry are discussed in relation to the development of new materials, such as molecular size tinkertoys to the development of novel photochemical systems and their spectroscopies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses particularly the synthesis of complex organic molecules and the mechanism of reagents used in organic synthesis. Includes a study of transition metal mediated organic reactions. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Current research in the area of organic/materials chemistry. Concerns topics related to organic materials synthesis, carbon nanotube functionalization, artificial photosynthesis, gas storage and catalysis. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses progress towards control of molecular reactivity using light, including synthetic methods for creating control subjects. Emphasizes new methods to achieve coherent control. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Chemistry of negative ions; experimental methods and designs; laser spectroscopy of ions; theoretical methods; reactive dynamics of ions in the gas phase. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Seminars presented on a variety of topics in theoretical chemical physics. Molecular collisions and unimolecular dynamics predominantly featured. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies theoretical description of molecular dynamicsas related to rate processes. Focuses on chemical reactions in liquids, absorption-desorption on surfaces, nucleation reactions, and energy flow in molecules. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies gas phase ion chemistry relevant to thermochemical measurements and atmospheric, interstellar, and biomedical applications. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses advances and developments in biomolecular dynamics, and considers the connection of protein dynamics with function. Emphasizes experimental studies via ultrafast laser spectroscopy. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
