CHEM 307-407 Materials and Nano Chemistry (1) Introduction to frontier research at the interface of chemistry and materials science. This course is intended primarily for chemists at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level who wish to gain exposure to important paradigms and methodologies in materials science and nanotechnology.
CHEM 333 Inorganic Chemistry (1) Descriptive chemistry of some important elements. Current concepts and models of chemical bonding.
CHEM 342-1 Thermodynamics (1) Laws and applications of thermodynamics. Thermochemistry, chemical potentials, solutions thermodynamics, and nonideal gases.
CHEM 397 Medicinal Chemistry: The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action (1) Introduction to the principles of drug design and the mechanism of drug action from a chemical point of view. Topics include an historical introduction, drug design and development, receptors, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors, DNA, drug metabolism, and prodrugs.
CHEM 401-0 Principles in Organic Chemistry (1) Overview of the fundamental principles of organic chemistry. Topics include bonding and structure, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, acids and bases, reactivity, and reaction mechanisms.
CHEM 410 Physical Organic Chemistry (1) Methods in the investigation of reaction mechanisms. Stereochemistry, conformational analysis, thermochemistry, kinetics, isotope effects, solvent effects, quantitative structure-reactivity relationships, pericyclic reactions, and photochemistry.
CHEM 411 Organic Spectroscopy (1) Applications of contemporary spectroscopic methods to organic structural and dynamic problems.
CHEM 412 Mechanisms of Organic Reactions (1) Organic reaction mechanisms, including carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, nitrenes, radicals, rearrangement reactions and photochemistry.
CHEM 413-1 Advanced Organic Chemistry I (1) Advanced topics in organic chemistry: bonding, reaction intermediates, functional group transformations, reaction methodology; approaches to natural product synthesis.
CHEM 413-2 Advanced Organic Chemistry II (1) Advanced topics in organic chemistry continued: organometallic reaction methodology, catalysis, and their application to total synthesis.
CHEM 414-1 Bioorganic Chemistry: Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions (1) A survey of the chemistry by which enzymes catalyze reactions, coenzyme chemistry, and inhibition of enzymes.
CHEM 414-2 Bioorganic Chemistry: Biomolecules and Biosynthesis (1) Survey of the major classes of biomolecules: carbohydrates, amino acids, lipids, nucleotides, nucleic acids, and proteins. Biosynthetic chemistry. Other current topics in bioorganic chemistry.
CHEM 415 Advanced Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry (1) Topics vary. Recent topics include carbanions, catalysis of organic reactions, enzyme mechanisms, natural products, nucleotide chemistry, and photochemistry.
CHEM 417 Photochemistry (1) The physical and chemical behavior of electronically excited molecules. Methods for the investigation of excited state phenomena and major classes of photochemical reactions.
CHEM 418 Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis (1) The basic reactions of organometallic chemistry and their applications in homogeneous catalysis.
CHEM 433 Structural Inorganic Chemistry (1) Chemical applications of group theory and the determination of molecular structure by modern physical techniques.
CHEM 434 Inorganic Chemistry (1) Inorganic and solid-state chemistry of main group elements, particularly those in Group III, second and third transition elements, lanthanides, and actinides.
CHEM 435 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (1) Topics vary. Recent topics include organometallic chemistry, coordination chemistry, hydride chemistry, ligand field theory, solid-state chemistry, and photoelectron spectroscopy of inorganic compounds.
CHEM 436 Readings in Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (1) Reactions and general methods of syntheses.
CHEM 442-1,2 Quantum Chemistry (1) (1) First Quarter: Principles of basic quantum mechanics, approximation methods, applications to molecules, and introductory group theory. Second Quarter: Molecular orbital theory, applications of group theory, and quantum mechanics as applied to spectroscopy.
CHEM 443 Kinetics (1) Rates and mechanisms of reactions; modern developments in chemical kinetics. Scattering theory, transition state theory, unimolecular reactions, reactions in solution, reactivity as a function of internal energy of reactants, molecular beam kinetics, and enzyme kinetics.
CHEM 444 Elementary Statistical Mechanics (1) Statistical mechanics in chemical systems. Partition functions, thermodynamic correspondence, absolute rate theory, equilibrium, vibration behavior of solids, and adsorption theory.
CHEM 445 Advanced Physical and Analytical Chemistry (1) Topics vary. Recent topics include electrochemistry, molecular beam kinetics, electron spectroscopy, molecular reaction dynamics, laser spectroscopy, separations, and resonance spectroscopy.
CHEM 447 Chemistry of Heterogeneous Catalysis (1) Basic laws of chemisorption on solid surfaces and reaction kinetics. Principles of modern methods for the identification of chemisorption complexes. Mechanism of selected catalytic reactions, including catalysis by solid acids, transition metals, and their alloys and oxides.
CHEM 448 Computational Chemistry (1) The theory and application of molecular electronic structure methods, techniques for determining vibrational eigenfunctions and scattering properties, and molecular mechanics, molecular mechanics and Monte Carlo calculations. Included are extensive applications to chemical problems using Unix workstations.
CHEM 460 Seminar in Organic Chemistry (0) (0) (0) Current research topics presented by visiting and Northwestern University speakers.
CHEM 461 Seminar in Physical Chemistry (0) (0) (0) Current research topics presented by visiting and Northwestern University speakers.
CHEM 463 Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry (0) (0) (0) Current research topics presented by visiting and Northwestern University speakers.
CHEM 499 Independent Study (1, 2, or 3) May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor and department required.
The courses listed below provide research training for doctoral candidates in areas designated by the titles. Permission of the instructor is required.
CHEM 570 Research Seminar in Analytical Chemistry (1)
CHEM 571 Research Seminar in Biological Chemistry (1)
CHEM 573 Research Seminar in Chemical Physics and Theoretical Chemistry (1)
CHEM 575 Research Seminar in Organometallic Chemistry and Coordination Chemistry (1)
CHEM 576 Research Seminar in Physical Organic Chemistry (1)
CHEM 577 Research Seminar in Solid-State Chemistry (1)
CHEM 578 Research Seminar in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1)
CHEM 590 Research (1, 2, or 3) Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
Related Courses in the Department of Chemical Engineering
CHEM ENG 361 Introduction to Polymers (1)
CHEM ENG 364 Chemical Processing and the Environment (1)
CHEM ENG 395 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering (1)
CHEM ENG 410 Principles of Heterogeneous Catalysis (1)
Related in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CIV ENG 441 Environmental Microbiology (1)
CIV ENG 467 Advanced Environmental Chemistry (1)
CIV ENG 468 Chemical Speciation in Aquatic Systems (1)
Related Courses in the Department of Geological Sciences
GEOL SCI 301 Geochemistry of Global Environments (1)
GEOL SCI 316 Sedimentary Geochemistry (1)
Related Courses in the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
BIOL SCI 301 Biochemistry (1)
BIOL SCI 321 Physical Biochemistry (1)
BIOL SCI 323 Bioinformatics: Sequence and Structure Analysis (1)
BIOL SCI 354 Advanced Biochemistry and Biophysics Laboratory (1)
BIOL SCI 356 Vertebrate Endocrinology (1)
BIOL SCI 361 Proteins and Nucleic Acids (1)
BIOL SCI 362 Biophysics of Macromolecular Systems (1)
BIOL SCI 390 Molecular Biology I (1)
BIOL SCI 401 Biochemistry and Biophysics (1)
BIOL SCI 402 Molecular Biology and Development (1)
Related Courses in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MAT SCI 341 Introduction to Modern Ceramics (1)
MAT SCI 351-1,2 Introductory Physics of Materials (1) (1)
MAT SCI 355 Electronic Materials (1)
MAT SCI 360 Introduction to Electron Microscopy (1)
MAT SCI 361 Crystallography and Diffraction (1)
MAT SCI 395 Special Topics in Materials Science (1)
MAT SCI 405 Physics of Solids (1)
MAT SCI 415 Fundamentals of Thin Film Materials (1)
MAT SCI 444 High Polymers in the Solid State (1)
MAT SCI 445 Special Topics in High Polymer Science (1)
MAT SCI 465 Advanced electron Microscopy and Diffraction (1)
Related Course in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
PHYSICS 422-1,23 Condensed-Matter Physics (1) (1) (1)
