For CHEM, BCHM, and ENCH majors and honors students only. For CHEM, BCHM, and ENCH majors and honors students only. Current issues such as acid rain, nuclear power, synthetic organic chemicals. For CHEM and BCHM majors only. Seminar on professional issues.
Honors projects for undergraduate students.
Repeatable to 6 credits. An examination of some advanced topics in quantitative analysis including nonaqueous titrations, precipitation phenomena, complex equilibria, and the analytical chemistry of the less familiar elements. Modern instrumentation in analytical chemistry. Electronics, spectroscopy, chromatography and electrochemistry. An advanced study of the compounds of carbon, with special emphasis on molecular orbital theory and organic reaction mechanisms.