Laboratory work illustrates basic principles presented in lectures. MA27 or permission of department. I AND II Two-semester sequence for students whose emphasis is chemistry, biology, engineering, medicine or dentistry. Includes study of general principles, laws of chemical combination, thermodynamics, electrochemistry and chemical equilibrium. Laboratory work is basically quantitative in nature and emphasizes experimental techniques and study through observation.
Second semester places emphasis on equilibrium through study of inorganic qualitative analysis.
Basic principles of organic chemistry and chemistry of physiologically significant compounds. Lecture topics include discussion of properties and preparations of major families of organic compounds with emphasis on biologically important compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins. Laboratory reinforces basic techniques employed in general chemistry, illustrates representative mechanisms, and introduces techniques and procedures encountered in organic preparations and analysis. Both chemical and instrumental methods of organic analysis, including separation and structure elucidation techniques, are developed. Basic laboratory techniques are taught and representative compounds are prepared.