Course Listing By Semesters

Credit Hours: 3.00. Not available for credit toward graduation in the School of Science. Required of all freshmen in the School of Agriculture who are not in CHM 11500 and required of students in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences in retailing, textile, RHIT, and dietetics options who are not in CHM 11500. Required of students in physical therapy who are not in CHM 11500. Not available for credit toward graduation in the School of Science. Metric and S.I. Units; dimensional analysis; density; the atomic concept; elements, compounds, and mixtures; the mole concept; equations and stoichiometry; atomic structure, spectra; the periodic table; chemical bonding, gases; descriptive chemistry of the common elements. Prerequisite: two years of high school algebra. CTL:IPS 1721 General Chemistry I w/lab

Credit Hours: 4.00. Stoichiometry; atomic structure; periodic properties; ionic and covalent bonding; molecular geometry; gases, liquids, and solids; crystal structure; thermochemistry; descriptive chemistry of metals and non-metals. Required of students majoring in science and students in engineering who are not in CHM 12300. One year of high school chemistry or one semester of college chemistry required. CTL:IPS 1721 General Chemistry I w/lab

Credit Hours: 4.00. A continuation of CHM 11500. Solutions; quantitative equilibria in aqueous solution; introductory thermodynamics; oxidation-reduction and electrochemistry; chemical kinetics; qualitative analysis; further descriptive chemistry of metals and nonmetals. CTL:IPS 1722 General Chemistry II w/lab

Credit Hours: 5.00. Principles of chemistry including stoichiometry; atomic structure and chemical bonding; properties of gases, liquids, and solids; thermochemistry; descriptive inorganic chemistry. Recommended for entering students intending to major in chemistry. One year of high school chemistry or one semester of college chemistry required.

Credit Hours: 5.00. An accelerated and comprehensive one-semester general chemistry course that emphasizes principles that are important in biological systems. This course is designed to cover the essential elements of general chemistry traditionally covered in a two semester series. Topics to be covered include: Stoichiometry and chemical equations; atomic theory and structure; periodic properties; electronegativity; ionic and covalent bonding; non-covalent forces; bond energies; Lewis structures; molecular geometry; gases, liquids, and solids; solutions, quantitative equilibria in aqueous solution; acid/base chemistry and buffers; introductory thermodynamics; oxidation-reduction; electrochemical and membrane potential; colligative properties; chemical and enzyme kinetics; nuclear chemistry; coordination chemistry. One year of high school chemistry is required.

Credit Hours: 4.00. A sophisticated treatment of the principles of chemistry. Atomic structure and bonding, spectroscopy, equilibria, thermodynamics and kinetics. Includes weekly laboratory experiments. Two years of high school chemistry recommended. Students with a grade of C or better in CHM 13600 who need 8 hours of credit in general chemistry may request credit for CHM 11500.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Designed to provide incoming chemistry majors with the academic, survival, and computational skills to make a successful transition from high school to college. Discussion of opportunities within the chemistry department including degree options, co-op program, undergraduate research, careers in chemistry, use of spreadsheet software, graphing packages, and drawing programs for chemical structures. Attendance and performance on assigned projects are the basis of the assigned grades.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Supervised individual research performed by student.

Credit Hours: 4.00. Descriptive inorganic chemistry dealing in a systematic way with the elements and the structures, properties, and reactions of their compounds. Required of students majoring in chemistry.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and their simple derivatives in terms of (a) structure, bonding, etc.; (b) general syntheses and reactions; and (c) a logical modern rationale for fundamental phenomena as supported by reactivity orders, orientation effects, stereochemistry, and relative rates. Recommended for biology majors.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Laboratory experiments to accompany CHM 25500, illustrating methods of separation, instrumental methods of analysis, and the more common techniques and methods for preparing various types of organic compounds.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A continuation of CHM 25500 with various functional groups such as the carboxyl, amino, etc., and including such polyfunctional natural products as carbohydrates and peptides.

Credit Hours: 1.00. A continuation of CHM 25501. Experiments are designed to illustrate principles discussed in CHM 25600.

Credit Hours: 4.00. Introductory organic chemistry. Emphasis is on structure, nomenclature, reactions, and theory as applied to simple organic compounds. This course is designed for students who require a one semester overview in preparation for biochemistry. Not recommended for majors in the College of Science. Both CHM 25700 + 25701 = CTL:IPS 1723 Organic And Biochemistry w/lab.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Laboratory experiments designed to accompany CHM 25700 and to illustrate methods of separation, identification, and preparation of selected organic molecules. Both CHM 25700 + 25701 = CTL:IPS 1723 Organic And Biochemistry w/lab.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive study of the chemical principles underlying aliphatic and aromatic compounds. The syntheses and reactions of these materials are discussed. Modern theory and stereochemistry are stressed to illustrate the logic inherent in the subject matter and to demonstrate the predictability of many chemical transformations. Recommended for students majoring in chemical engineering. If not a chemical engineering major, see CHM 26505 Organic Chemistry.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Laboratory experiments designed to illustrate the lecture material of CHM 26100. Elementary laboratory techniques essential to organic chemistry are introduced, followed by the actual syntheses and purification of compounds discussed in CHM 26100.

Credit Hours: 2.00.  Similar to CHM 26300 except that a larger number and more sophisticated organic syntheses are required. The preparations are designed not only to illustrate the classical reactions discussed in CHM 26100 or 26505, but to allow for an extrapolation of the principles involved to other systems.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A comprehensive study of the chemical principles underlying aliphatic and aromatic compounds. The syntheses and reactions of these materials are discussed. Modern theory and stereochemistry are stressed to illustrate the logic inherent in the subject matter and to demonstrate the predictability of many chemical transformations. Recommended for students majoring in chemistry.

Credit Hours: 2.00. Laboratory experiments designed to accompany the lecture material of CHM 26505, but at an advanced level. Modern instrumentation is introduced to supplement the usual elementary laboratory techniques of organic chemistry. Multistep syntheses are employed to illustrate and supplement the reactions discussed in CHM 26505.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Discussion of undergraduate research opportunities, upper-division courses, career opportunities, laboratory safety, use of the library and chemical information, and topics of current interest in chemistry. Required of sophomores majoring in any chemistry curriculum.

Credit Hours: 4.00. Quantitative measurements on complex chemical systems that show matrix effects or require isolation of a component prior to its determination; general approaches to quantitative problems at the trace level; critical comparisons of competitive procedures with emphasis on principles of separation processes, including chromatography; recognition and evaluation of possible sources of error; approaches for optimizing conditions so as to minimize time and/or effort required to attain prescribed levels of accuracy and precision. Required of students majoring in chemistry.

Credit Hours: 1.00. CHM 33901 is a laboratory course based on two modules from the Undergraduate Research Inspired Experimental Chemistry Alternatives (URIECA) developed at MIT that are designed to introduce students to cutting-edge research topics in biochemistry. The course provides students with a research-inspired laboratory experience that introduces standard biochemical techniques in the context of investigating a current research topic, for example, acquired resistance to cancer drugs. Techniques include protein expression, purification, and gel analysis, PCR, site-directed mutagenesis, kinase activity assays, and protein structure viewing. CHM 33901 was designed as the 4th semester of the 1-2-1 competency-based curriculum transformation in chemistry as it applies to pre-health professional and life science students at Purdue. However, the course is open to other students who meet the pre-requisites.

Credit Hours: 3.00. The fundamentals and applications of metals in biology.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinetic theory of gases; statistical thermodynamics; quantum mechanics; atomic and molecular structure and spectroscopy; properties of ionic phases. May not be used to satisfy requirements for graduation in chemistry.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Physical chemistry of matter. Properties of gases, liquids, and solids; equations of state; thermodynamics; energy, heat, and work; entropy; spontaneity and equilibrium; chemical potential; chemical equilibrium; phase diagrams; colligative properties.

Credit Hours: 1.00. A physical chemistry laboratory course that will provide students with hands-on experience that illustrates the core concepts presented in the associated physical chemistry lecture course CHM 37300.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A rigorous one-semester introduction to biochemistry, with in-depth coverage of biology at a molecular level. Topics covered include the classes of biological macromolecules, enzyme kinetics and inhibition, and significant metabolic pathways.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of chemical aspects of environmental problems and the application of chemistry to their solution. Topics will include atmospheric pollution problems, groundwater pollution and waste disposal problems, inorganic water pollutants, and the occurrence and fate of toxic organic compounds and other substances in the environment.

Credit Hours: 1.00. Major emphasis on developing skills in oral and written presentations by students. The subject matter can be library material and/or accomplishments in undergraduate or co-op research. Department permission required.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical discussion of the means by which the fundamentals of modern chemistry can best be introduced at the high school level. The laboratory will deal with the manufacture and use of lecture demonstration equipment, the use of films and film strips, and the problems involved in organizing and running a high school chemical laboratory.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Identification of organic compounds and characteristic groups by the use of mass spectrometry, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and ultraviolet spectroscopy.

Credit Hours: 3.00. (EAPS 52100) An introduction to the chemistry of the earth's atmosphere. Covers evolution of the earth's atmosphere, its physical and chemical structure, its natural chemical composition and oxidative properties, and human impacts, including increasing tropospheric ozone, decreasing stratospheric ozone, climate change, and acidic deposition.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Directed reading or special work not included in other courses. Permission of instructor required.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. Directed reading or special work not included in other courses. Permission of instructor required.

Credit Hours: 0.00. Lectures on safe practices in the chemistry laboratory. Required of students doing research in chemistry.

Credit Hours: 3.00. A graduate-level treatment of chemical aspects of mass spectrometry. No prior knowledge in mass spectrometry is required. Prerequisite: Bachelor's degree in Chemistry.

Credit Hours: 3.00. The structure and molecular properties of biological membranes and appropriate model systems. Offered in alternate years.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Chemistry of materials of biochemical interest; carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, amino acids, nucleic acids, porphyrins; biochemistry of blood. Prerequisite: CHM 26200, 32100, 37400.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of main group and transition metal chemistry. Main group special topics, bonding and structure of boron hydrides. Coordination chemistry, bonding models in coordination compounds. Transition metal organometallic chemistry, ligand types and reactivity patterns. Survey of inorganic NMR spectroscopy. Prerequisite: CHM 34200.

Credit Hours: 3.00. The chemistry of solids, including a discussion of ionic crystals, metals, alloys, and binary compounds, and their characterizations by various physical methods. Description of chemical reactions, phase changes, and catalysis in terms of current theories of the solid state. Prerequisite: CHM 34200, 37400.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Provides a detailed perspective on the roles of metals in biology. Emphasis is placed upon principles guiding the field. The basics of biochemistry and inorganic chemistry are provided such that students from diverse backgrounds may participate. Readings are from the research literature. Offered in alternate years.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Modern structural organic chemistry, including introductions to molecular orbital theory and reaction mechanisms. Prerequisite: a year's course in organic chemistry.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics, including atomic and molecular structure and modern theories underlying thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. Prerequisite: CHM 57800.

Credit Hours: 3.00. Application of statistical mechanics to the description of imperfect gases, liquids, and solutions; to order-disorder phenomena in solids and surfaces; and to absolute reaction rate theory. Prerequisite: CHM 67100, 67900.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 0.00 or 1.00. Groups meeting for review and discussion of important current literature in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each graduate student is required to attend the seminar of his or her major subject.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.

Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Lectures on selected topics of current interest.