Among topics to be considered are fossil fuels, plastics, medicinals and pesticides. A conscious effort will be made to consider industrial chemicals in terms of their proper handling and disposal. This course covers the basic principle of intermediary metabolism and the application of biochemical principles to living systems. Three lectures per week. Spring Semester of odd years.
Laboratory exercises emphasize materials to be used with high school students.
Advanced theoretical aspects of organic chemistry. Areas of emphasis will be bonding, spectroscopy, synthesis, and mechanisms. Three lectures per week. Fall Semester of odd years. The study of modern methods of analysis using chemical instrumentation.