Fall 2020 Teaching in the department of Chemistry

Chemistry: A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites/corequisites: High school mathematics and physics or permission of the instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite
• Each lab section is limited enrolment

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Drug history and marketing, over the counter drugs (e.g. aspirin, cough and cold remedies, allergy preparations), street and heart drugs, mental illness, hormones, brain chemistry and diabetes.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• 3 lecture hours/week

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: The fundamentals of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with applications to biomolecular systems. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of biological processes.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent.
• Restrictions: Intended for students in biological science programs requiring only one course in physical chemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204 or CHEM 213 or CHEM 223 and CHEM 243.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Similar to CHEM 223/CHEM 243. Emphasis on the use of biological examples to illustrate the principles of physical chemistry. The relevance of physical chemistry to biology is stressed.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall, Winter
• Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent and one full course in calculus
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 203 or CHEM 213.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall, Summer
• Prerequisite: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent.
• Restriction: Not open to students registered in Chemistry or Biochemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 211, CHEM 242, or equivalent.
• Each lab section is limited enrolment
• Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page (http://www.chemistry.mcgill.ca/advising/outside/equivalent.htm).

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Thermodynamics. Topics include gas laws, kinetic theory of collisions, heat capacity, enthalpy, thermochemistry, bond energies, the entropy and free energy functions, absolute entropies, Maxwell relations and chemical and thermodynamic equilibrium states, phase rule and phase diagrams, ideal solutions, colligative properties, solubility, electrochemistry, Debye-Hückel Theory.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Corequisite(s): MATH 222
• Prerequisites: CHEM 110, CHEM 120 or equivalent, PHYS 102 or PHYS 142, or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Winter, Summer
• Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or CHEM 242 or equivalent.
• Restriction: Not open to Chemistry or Biochemistry students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 234 or CHEM252.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey of methods of analysis including theory and practice of semimicro qualitative analysis and representative gravimetric, volumetric and instrumental methods. The laboratory component includes introductory experiments in analytical chemistry emphasizing classical and instrumental methods of quantitative analysis.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Prerequisite(s): CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, or equivalent
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CHEM 287 or CHEM 297

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Topics covered may include the following: Aromatic compounds, heterocyclic chemistry, sulfur and phosphorus chemistry, organosulfur and organophosphorus compounds, and biomolecules such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, polypeptides, DNA and RNA.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 222, or permission of the instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: An introduction to quantum chemistry covering the historical development, wave theory, methods of quantum mechanics, and applications of quantum chemistry.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, and PHYS 142, or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Introduction to transition metal chemistry, coordination numbers and geometry, and nomenclature will be followed by a discussion of crystal field theory and its applications to problems in spectroscopy, magnetochemistry, thermodynamics and kinetics. Several aspects related to applications of organometallic compounds in catalysis and bioinorganic systems will be discussed.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisite: CHEM 281.
• Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Energy consumption and human development; green house gases; primary and secondary sources of energy, fuels vs. electricity; energy transport and storage; fossil fuels; nuclear energy; fusion and fission; bioenergetics, natural and artificial photosynthesis; novel materials; nanocomposites; photochemistry; electrochemistry; photovoltaics and batteries; fuel cells; catalysis and biomass.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Prerequisites: CHEM 212; CHEM 223 and CHEM 243; or CHEM 213 and CHEM 273; or CHEM 204 or CHEM 203; or permission of instructor
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 319.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: New reactions and methods which can be used for the production of chemicals from renewable feedstocks; the use of new environmentally benign solvents, catalysts and reagents; organic reactions in aqueous media and in supercritical carbon dioxide; bio-catalysis and bio-processes.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 302 and CHEM 381

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the overall drug discovery process. The main focus of the course will be on medicinal chemistry, synthesis and catalysis, as they relate to large-scale production of pharmaceutical agents. However, other aspects of drug discovery, including structural research (e.g. NMR, X-ray), biochemistry, drug metabolism and bioavailability will also be included.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisite(s): CHEM 302 and one of BIOL 200 or CHEM 332, or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A comprehensive introduction to computational methods and software for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The main focus of the course is on important practical aspects of chemistry-related computer modeling: how to perform simulations reliably and efficiently, and how to interpret simulation results. Two main classes of computer simulations--electronic structure methods and statistical mechanics methods--will be discussed in detail together with a wide range of chemical examples.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Prerequisite(s): CHEM 345 or equivalent and CHEM 365 or PHYS 329 or equivalent, and COMP 202 or COMP 208 or equivalent.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: An overview of advanced techniques at the leading edge of Chemical Biology, including some or all of: biological imaging, kinetics of enzyme inhibition, combinatorial synthesis, atomic force microscopy of biological molecules, self assembling biomimetic structures, oligonucleotide therapeutics, biomolecular X-ray crystallography, computational methods, and nuclear magnetic resonance applied to protein interactions.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: BIOL 200 and CHEM 345 and CHEM 302, or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A practical course on the application of modern spectroscopic methods for the determination of structures of complex organic and organometallic compounds.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Winter
• Prerequisite: CHEM 302
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 352
• 3 hours lecture
• 1 hour Drop-in lab

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: Topics discussed include scanning probe microscopy, chemical self-assembly, computer modelling, and microfabrication/micromachining.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisites: CHEM 434 or PHYS 334 or permission of instructor
• Corequisites: one of CHEM 345, PHYS 357, or PHYS 346 or permission of instructor
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 534

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: The correlation of theory with physical measurements on organic systems; an introduction to photochemistry; solvent and substituent effects on organic reaction rates, etc.; reaction mechanisms.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Winter
• Prerequisite: CHEM 302

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A survey of polymer preparation and characterization; mechanisms of chain growth, including free radical, cationic, anionic, condensation and transition metal-mediated polymerization, and the effects of these mechanisms on polymer architecture; preparation of alternating, block, graft and stereoblock copolymers; novel macromolecular structures including dendrimers and other nanostructures.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisite: CHEM 302 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A survey course on the structure of polymers, kinetics and mechanisms of polymer and copolymer synthesis; characterization and molecular weight distributions; polymer microstructure, the thermodynamics of polymer solutions; the crystalline and amorphous states, rubber elasticity and structure-property relationships.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: CHEM 223 and CHEM 243 or CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, or CHEM 233 (for engineering students only), or permission of the instructor.
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CHEM 455 or CHEM 674.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: The roles of transition and main group elements in biology and medicine will be examined with an emphasis on using tools for structure and genome searching as well as becoming acquainted with experimental spectroscopic methods useful for bioinorganic chemistry such as macromolecular X-ray diffraction, EPR and EXAFS.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Winter
• Prerequisite: CHEM 381
• Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students or with permission

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Chemistry: A systematic survey of the mechanisms of the most common organic reactions from studies of reactions in the current literature.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year

Biotechnology: Current methods and recent advances in biological, medical, agricultural and engineering aspects of biotechnology will be described and discussed. An extensive reading list will complement the lecture material.

Offered by: Chemistry

• Fall
• Restriction: U3 students

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2025 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2025 academic year