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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Illustrative experiments. Laboratory section of CHEM 110. New students will be issued lab sections in OM 1 on the first day of classes.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of physical chemistry.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Illustrative experiments. Laboratory section of CHEM 120.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A series of lectures on the historical, practical, and simple chemical aspects of: food, food additives; vitamins; minerals, diet and cancer; dieting; food-borne illnesses, health food and cooking.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
The fundamentals of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with applications to biomolecular systems. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of biological processes.
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Sciences 1.
Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A survey of reactions of aliphatic and aromatic compounds including modern concepts of bonding, mechanisms, conformational analysis, and stereochemistry.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Emphasis is placed on the use of biological examples to illustrate the principles of physical chemistry. The relevance of physical chemistry to biology is stressed.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to the basic topics in atmospheric chemistry. The fundamentals of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and its chemical reactions. Selected topics such as; a smog chamber, acid rain, and the ozone hole, will be examined.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Summer 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025View offerings for Summer 2025 or Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Illustrative experiments in organic chemistry. Laboratory section of CHEM 212.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Engineering)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Introduction to chemical kinetics, surface and colloid chemistry and electrochemistry. The topics to be discussed will be of particular interest to students in chemical engineering.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Engineering)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Summer 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Summer 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Laboratory section of CHEM 222.
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Credits: 4Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A fundamental study of aromatic and polar unsaturated functional groups including reaction mechanisms, multi-step synthesis, regioselectivity, and modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Illustrative experiments in physical chemistry.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Kinetics: Transition State Theory, complex reactions, free-radical reactions, chain reactions, catalysis, reactions at surfaces, ionic effects of reactions in solution, photochemistry. Methods: physical chemistry laboratory, differential equations and linear algebra applied to physical chemistry, computation methods for data analysis and modeling
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Basic concepts of electronic structure and molecular bonding will be developed and applied to the understanding of common materials. Acid-base chemistry. Survey of the chemistry of the main group elements. Introduction to coordination and organometallic chemistry.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to biological chemistry. Topics will include chemistry and structure of proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids; protein and nucleic acid biosynthesis; enzyme kinetics and mechanisms; membranes and membrane transport; bioenergetics; redox reactions in biological chemistry; gene expression; cloning, RNA and
antibody technologies; genomics and proteomics.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Survey of the physical and chemical structure-function relationships defining advanced materials, including an introduction to basic materials science and characterization. Topics include supramolecular polymers, self-healing materials, advanced surfaces and adhesives, bio-inspired materials, shape memory materials, sensors and actuators, and photonic materials.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to quantum chemistry covering the historical development, wave theory, methods of quantum mechanics, and applications of quantum chemistry.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A survey of the principles of electronic, vibrational and rotational spectroscopy. Magnetic resonance and computational methods.
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Credits: 2Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An advanced laboratory with experiments related to the theoretical principles and synthetic methods of modern organic chemistry.
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Credits: 2Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Molecular basis of thermodynamics with applications to ideal gases and simple solids. Topics to be covered will include: calculation of thermodynamic functions, chemical equilibrium constants, Einstein and Debye models of solids, absolute reaction rate theory, Debye-Hückel theory of strong electrolytes.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
An introduction to modern instrumental analysis emphasizing chromatography, atomic spectroscopy and computational data analysis. Analytical methods to be examined in detail include gas-liquid and high performance liquid chromatography, LC mass spectrometry, and common methods of atomic determinations using flames/furnaces/plasma sources.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Spectroscopic methods of analysis will be studied with respect to fundamentals, operational aspects and instrument design. Topics will range from UV-visible to x-ray spectrometry. Methodologies will be evaluated with respect to their application in spectrometric systems. Laboratory automation will be studied and applied in the laboratory.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Experiments related to the theoretical principles, synthetic techniques and instrumental methods used in modern experimental chemistry, including aspects of green chemistry and nanochemistry.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
Description
Independent research project with a final written report.
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Credits: 1Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Supervised research.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A course designed to give students research experience. The student will be assigned a project supervisor and a research project at the beginning of the session. The project will consist of a literature survey, experimental and/or theoretical work, a written research report and an oral examination.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
See CHEM 470D1 for course description.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Summer 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Summer 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A course designed to give students additional research experience. The student will be assigned a project supervisor and a research project at the beginning of the session. The project will consist of a literature survey, experimental or theoretical work, a written research report and an oral examination.
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Credits: 1.5Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A course designed to give students additional research experience. The student will be assigned a project supervisor and a research project at the beginning of the session. The project will consist of a literature survey, experimental or theoretical work, a written research report and an oral examination.
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Credits: 1.5Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A course designed to give students additional research experience. The student will be assigned a project supervisor and a research project at the beginning of the session. The project will consist of a literature survey, experimental or theoretical work, a written research report and an oral examination.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Structure, synthesis, stereochemistry and biosynthesis of terpenes, alkaloids, antibiotics and selected molecules of medicinal interest.
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Credits: 2Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Selected experiments to illustrate more advanced physico-chemical principles.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
This course will cover biologically relevant molecules, particularly nucleic acids, proteins, and their building blocks. In each case, synthesis and biological functions will be discussed. The topics include synthesis of oligonucleotides and peptides; chemistry of phosphates; enzyme structure and function; coenzymes, and enzyme catalysis; polyketides; antiviral and anticancer agents.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
General concepts governing catalysis and practical aspects of its implementation including its most important applications. A global perspective on industrial catalysis. A general introduction about catalysis including homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, organocatalysis, and biocatalysis. A select number of reactions will be studied in detail, based on the most recent research efforts made in the field of catalysis.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Physical chemistry concepts needed to understand the function of biological systems at the molecular level, including the structure, stability, transport, and interactions of biological macromolecules.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026View offerings for Fall 2025 or Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Exploration of the field of atmospheric chemistry that is identified as the significant driver of climate change and the cause of millions of premature death every year. Discussion of cutting-edge novel technologies for observing and quantifying pollutants (from ground to satellite) using artificial intelligence, the fate of
emerging contaminants (e.g., nano/microplastics, trace metals, persistent
organic), and modelling of atmospheric and interfacial processes. Examination of topics like atmospheric gaseous and multiphase components like bioaerosols. Study of photochemical, photophysical, and aerosol nucleation processes that affect air quality, climate change, and ecosystem health.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Stereoisomers, their nomenclature and configuration. Conformational analysis, separation of stereoisomers, and stereocontrol in organic synthesis.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Structure, bonding, synthesis, properties and applications of covalent, ionic, metallic crystals, and amorphous solids. Defect structures and their use in synthesis of specialty materials such as electronic conductors, semiconductors, and superconductors, and solid electrolytes. Basic principles of composite materials and applications of chemistry to materials processing.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A practical course on the application of modern spectroscopic methods for the determination of structures of complex organic and organometallic compounds.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Fundamentals of x-ray diffraction related to small molecule structure resolution, space groups, diffraction theory, strategies for structure solution, and refinement will be covered.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Topics discussed include scanning probe microscopy, chemical self-assembly, computer modelling, and microfabrication/micromachining.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Introduction to emerging technologies and research advances in biotechnologies. Topics include semisynthetic production of drugs and drug candidates through large-scale fermentation, next generation synthesis of DNA and whole genes, green toxicology, single-molecule diagnostics, orphan-drug re-purposing,
and next- generation genomic analyses in drug development. Translational research, issues of entrepreneurship, sustainability, and ethics are also covered.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Advanced-level chemical reactivity and metal binding properties, advanced methods for synthesis, purification and characterization of DNA/RNA, non-canonical DNA/RNA structures and functions, self-assembly of functional nucleic acid-based materials, chemical and fluorescence-based methods for probing nucleic acids in vitro and in vivo, in vitro evolution of functional nucleic acids for biotechnology, and diagnostic and therapeutic applications of modified nucleic acids.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The fundamental principles underlying Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Electron Paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) will be covered and applied to biomolecules and materials chemistry. Topics include multidimensional spectra, molecular dynamics, the density matrix, and the product operator formalism.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Quantum mechanical treatment of species of chemical interest. Introduction to perturbation theory, both time-dependent and time-independent. Treatment of the variational principle. Introduction to atomic spectra. Chemical bonding in terms of both the valence bond and molecular orbital theory. Elementary collision theory. Interaction of radiation with molecules.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Synthetic methods in organic chemistry and their application to the synthesis of complex molecules.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Fall 2025View offerings for Fall 2025 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
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.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Kinetic laws, measurement of reaction rates, transition state and collision theory, experimental techniques in reaction kinetics, reaction mechanisms, RRKM theory, Marcus theory of electron transfer, photochemistry and catalysis. Recent developments and their application to chemical and biological problems. Elementary reactions in gas, solution and solid phases and on surfaces.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Fundamentals of electrochemistry and the application of electrochemical methods to chemical and biochemical problems. Emphasis is given to the study of electrode reaction mechanisms and the interpretation of electrochemical results for organic and inorganic systems. Voltammetric and coulometric methods are rigorously discussed. Several topics of interest in electrochemistry will be covered as time permits.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Principles of the physical chemistry of phase boundaries. Electrical double layer theory; van der Waals forces; Brownian motion; kinetics of coagulation; electrokinetics; light scattering; solid/liquid interactions; adsorption; surfactants; hydrodynamic interactions; rheology of dispersions.
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Credits: 3Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)Terms offered: Winter 2026View offerings for Winter 2026 in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Intermediate topics in statistical mechanics and related machine learning: ensemble theory, critical phenomena, static and time-dependent phenomena, linear response and fluctuations, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulation methods, data driven simulation methods: MaxEnt modeling, generative machine learning, active learning.
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