Teaching

CHEM 4103 [0.5 credit]
Surface Chemistry and Nanostructures
Fall 2020

Surface structure, thermodynamics and kinetics, specifically regarding adsorption/desorption and high vacuum models. Nanoscale structures and their formation, reactivity and characterization. Thin films, carbon nanotubes, self-assembled monolayers and supramolecular aggregates.

Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3600 and CHEM 3107.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as CHEM 5108, for which additional credit is precluded.
Lectures three hours a week.

CHEM 3600 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Nanotechnology
Winter 2021

Nanoscale units, bulk vs. nanoproperties, electrons, atoms and ions, metals, band structure, electrical conduction, biosystems, molecular devices, quantum mechanics and optics, tools for measuring nanostructures. Production of nanostructures: self assembly, nanoscale crystal growth, polymerization. Applications to sensors, magnets, electronics, drug delivery. Toxicology of nanostructures.

Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3100.
Lectures three hours a week.

CHEM 3503/3507 [0.5 credit]
Inorganic Chemistry I
Fall 2020

Symmetry, identification of Raman and infrared active vibrations, symmetry-adapted molecular orbital theory of polyatomic molecules, electron deficient bonding, bonding in coordination complexes, solid state bonding, ionic lattices. Laboratory will introduce the student to a range of synthetic techniques and physical methods of characterization.

Precludes additional credit for CHEM 3507/CHEM 3503.
Prerequisite: CHEM 2501.
Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one hour a week (laboratory four hours a week for CHEM 3503).

CHEM 2501 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Winter 2021

The basic concepts of inorganic chemistry, including the origins of elemental properties, simple theories of bonding, intermolecular forces, main group and transition metal chemistry, coordination chemistry. Inorganic ions in biochemistry, including ion transport and storage, oxygen carriers and hydrolases, redox proteins.

Precludes additional credit for CHEM 3506.
Prerequisite: CHEM 1000.
Lectures three hours a week.

CHEM 3504/3508 [0.5 credit]
Inorganic Chemistry II
Winter 2021

Physical properties of coordination complexes, ligand substitutions and electron transfer reaction mechanisms, organometallic chemistry: bonding, nomenclature and catalysis. Laboratory will introduce the student to a range of synthetic techniques and physical methods of characterization.

Precludes additional credit for CHEM 3508.
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 3503/CHEM 3507.
Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one hour a week (laboratory four hours a week for CHEM 3504).