Description:
CHEM 123 is a 4-credit hour course (3 lecture; 1 lab) that focuses on the fundamentals of chemical reactivity: thermodynamics; kinetics; organic chemistry, including stereochemistry; applications relevant to modern society.
Instructors:
Dr. Gren Patey,
Dr. Katherine Ryan,
Dr. Laura Stirchak,
Dr. Ilsa Cooke,
Dr. Kayli Johnson,
Dr. Richard Kil,
Dr. David Perrin,
Outline: (Subject to Change)
Week 1 - Admin, Acid-Base Review
Week 2 - Intro to Thermodynamics, State Variables, Systems, Surroundings, Ideal Gases, First Law, Internal Energy, Paths and Processes, Pistons
Week 3 - Measuring Heat and Work, Heat Capacities, Calorimetry, Intro to Enthalpy, Standard States, Hess’s Law, Entropy, Second and Third Laws of Thermo
Week 4 - Spontaneity, Gibbs Free Energy, Equilibrium, van’t Hoff plots, Intro to Kinetics, Rate Laws, Rate Constants, Reaction Orders, Method of Initial Rates
Week 5 - Integrated Rate Laws and Graphical Analysis, Half-life, Overall Reactions, Mechanisms, Elementary Reactions, Reaction Coordinate Diagrams, Intermediates and Catalysts, Transition States
Week 6 - Multi-Step Reaction Mechanisms, Rate Determining Step, Rate Laws from Mechanisms, Steady-State Approximation, Michaelis-Menten Enzyme Kinetics, Temperature-dependence of k (Arrhenius Equation)
Week 7 - Intro to Organic, Representing Organic Molecules, Nomenclature/Functional Groups, Electronic Structure
Week 8 - Bonding and Resonance, Curved Arrow Notation, Organic view of Acid-Base Chemistry
Week 9 - Conformational Analysis, Cyclic Alkanes (cyclohexane)
Week 10 - Alkenes (E and Z), CIP Rules, Stereochemistry, Chirality, (R and S), Relationships between Compounds (Enantiomers, Diastereomers, etc.)
Week 11 - Relationships between Compounds (cont.), Meso Compounds, Properties of Chiral Compounds, Optical Rotation, Fischer Projections
Week 12 - Fischer Projections (cont.), Substitution Reactions: SN2 and SN1, Review