B.A./ B. Sc. Chemistry program

Offered by:Chemistry
Degree:Bachelor of Arts and Science

Program Requirement:

The Major Concentration Chemistry is not certified by the Ordre des Chimistes du Québec. Students interested in pursuing a career in Chemistry in Quebec are advised to take an appropriate B.Sc. program in Chemistry.

The Major Concentration Chemistry, which is restricted to students in the B.A. & Sc. or B.Sc./B.Ed., is a planned sequence of courses designed to permit a degree of specialization in this discipline.

Required Courses* (21 credits)

* Required courses taken at CEGEP or elsewhere that are not credited toward the B.A. & Sc. or B.Sc./B.Ed. must be replaced by courses from the Complementary Course List equal to or exceeding their credit value. Regardless of the substitution, students must take at least 36 credits in this program.

• CHEM 204 Physical Chem/Biological Scis1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  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 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 212 Intro Organic Chemistry 1 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: A survey of reactions of aliphatic and aromatic compounds including modern concepts of bonding, mechanisms, conformational analysis, and stereochemistry.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Fall, Winter, Summer
  • Prerequisite: CHEM 110 or equivalent.
  • Corequisite: CHEM 120 or equivalent.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken CHEM 211 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 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 214 Physical Chem./Biol. Sci. 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: CHEM 204 or CHEM 223/CHEM 243.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 222 Intro Organic Chemistry 2 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  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

  • Fall, Winter
  • Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken an equivalent Organic 2 at CEGEP (see McGill University Basic Math and Sciences Equivalence Table at www.mcgill.ca/mathscitable) or who have or are taking CHEM 234.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 253 Intrdctry Physcl Chemistry Lab 1 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: Illustrative experiments in physical chemistry.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Prerequisite: CHEM 110, CHEM 120 or equivalent.
  • Corequisite: CHEM 204 or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Only open to B.A. & Sc.; Major Concentration in Chemistry students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 273.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 267 Introductory Chemical Analysis 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  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 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 281 Inorganic Chemistry 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year

Complementary Courses (15 credits)

15 credits selected from:

• CHEM 219 Intro to Atmospheric Chemistry 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Winter
  • Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, and one of MATH 139 or MATH 140 or MATH 150, or a CEGEP DEC in Science, or permission of instructor.
  • Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ATOC 219, CHEM 419, or ATOC 419
  • Offered in even years. Students should register in ATOC 219 in odd years

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 302 Intrdctry Organic Chemistry 3 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

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

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 332 Biological Chemistry 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Prerequisite(s): CHEM 222 and CHEM 273.
  • Corequisite(s): CHEM 302
  • Restriction(s): Restricted to Chemistry Majors/Honours only except by permission of instructor.
  • Restriction(s): Not open to students who are taking or have taken BIOL 200 or BIOL 201.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 334 Advanced Materials 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Fall
  • Prerequisites: CHEM 110/CHEM 120 and PHYS101/PHYS 102 or PHYS 131/PHYS 142, or CEGEP Physics and Chemistry, or equivalent. Prerequisite or Corequisite: one of CHEM 203, CHEM 204, CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, or equivalent; or one of PHYS 230 and PHYS 232, or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 367 Instrumental Analysis 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Chemistry: 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.

  Offered by: Chemistry

  • Fall
  • Prerequisite(s): CHEM 267.
  • Each lab section is limited enrolment

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
• CHEM 381 Inorganic Chemistry 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  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 2023-2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year

Chemistry courses at the 400+ level.