P: Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from an accredited institution or
consent of instructor. Lectures on  selected topics of current interest,
as follows:
Analysis and Characterization of Synthetic Polymers  A description of
the principles and techniques of  solution characterization and
molecular weight methods, polymer spectroscopy, thermal analysis, and
evaluation of mechanical properties.
Analytical Spectroscopy  Survey of modern techniques, applications of
spectroscopy and imaging in  analytical chemistry.
Applied Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling  Applied
computational techniques that are widely  used in the chemical and
pharmaceutical industry, including computational chemistry, molecular
modeling and  computer-aided synthesis.
Bioanalytical Chemistry  Modern techniques for the study of biological
macromolecules, such as protein and  peptides, carbohydrates, DNA, RNA,
and lipids, including (1) spectroscopy (UV-Vis, Raman, NMR, mass
spectrometry, and light scattering); (2) bioseparations (chromatography,
electrophoresis, and  microdialysis); (3) electrochemistry (sensors,
electron transfer, and LCEC); (4) miscellaneous topics  (amino acid
analysis, sequencing, microcalorimetry, and immunochemistry).
Biochemistry-Dynamic Aspects  Mechanisms of biological catalysis,
metabolism, biosynthesis, regulation of  genetic information, and
molecular biology.
Bioelectrochemistry  Principles of electrochemical measurements
including potentiometry, amperometry and  linear sweep and cyclic
voltammetry and application to the study and utilization of biological
molecules.  Topics covered include redox transformations in biological
systems, electron transfer between electrodes  and biological molecules,
and electrochemical sensors for detection and quantitation of biological
analytes.
Bioinorganic Chemistry  A study of the occurrence, properties, and
mechanistic roles of transition and main  group elements in biological
processes including photosynthesis, oxygen evolution, respiration,
nitrogen  fixation, metabolic detoxification, and electron transfer.
Bioorganic Chemistry  Structure and reactivity of biological
macromolecules, such as proteins, enzymes, and  nucleic acids, and their
relevance to bioorganic chemistry. Current experimental studies of
enzymes,  nucleic acids, and model systems.
Biomaterials  Introduction to the field of biomaterials science
including chemistry, physics, and  engineering of biomaterials;
biological and biochemical aspects of biomaterials; and biomaterials in
medicine.
Biophysical Chemistry  The study of structure and properties of
biologically important macromolecules in  solution using physical
techniques, with special emphasis on optical, fluorescence, and magnetic
resonance  spectroscopy to describe protein conformation, denaturation,
catalytic center structure, thermodynamics of  ligand binding, time
dependent processes, and membrane properties.
Chemical Information Technology  Overview of chemical informatics
techniques, including chemical  information and data systems, chemical
structure and data representation and search systems, and
bioinformatics techniques.
Electroanalytical Chemistry  Principles of modern methods of
electroanalytical chemistry and quantitative  applications to electrode
reaction mechanisms and analytical determinations.
Medicinal Chemistry  The application of basic concepts of organic
chemistry, biochemistry, and pharmacology  to the design of organic
medicinal agents as well as recent advances in synthesis and evaluation
of  pharmaceuticals.
Organometallics in Organic Synthesis  Recent developments in the use of
transition metals in synthetic  organic methodology. Emphasis is placed
on applications of methods in the synthesis of complex organic
molecules.
Protein Structure and Function  Physical forces stabilizing protein
structure; protein folding. Essential  features of macromolecular
interactions. Introduction to enzyme kinetics and chemical mechanism in
enzyme  reactions.
Group Theory in Chemistry  This course is on molecular symmetry and how
we obtain information about the  quantum states of molecules through
application of group theoretical techniques related to the symmetries
of molecules.