Courses

• GRS CH 635: Synthetic Methodology in Inorganic Chemistry
  Survey of techniques for the preparation of complexes of the metallic elements in solution (as distinct from solid-state synthesis).
• GRS CH 641: Physical Organic Chemistry
  Physical fundamentals of organic chemistry. Thermodynamics, kinetics, molecular orbital theory, and theory of concerted reactions. Isotope effects, aromaticity, linear free energy relationships, acidity functions, photo- and free-radical chemistry. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 642: Organic Reaction Mechanisms
  Fundamentals of organic reaction mechanisms. Techniques used to study reaction mechanisms. Reactive intermediates: carbonium ions, radicals, carbenes, and nitrenes. Acid/base catalysis, reactions for the carbonyl group, cycloaddition, nucleophilic displacement reactions, and redox chemistry. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 643: Synthetic Methods of Organic Chemistry
  Organic synthesis strategies for total synthesis. Various approaches for organic molecules whose synthesis constitutes major contributions to organic chemistry. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 644: Medicinal Chemistry
  Intensive overview of recent advances in the medicinal and pharmaceutical sciences. Introduces the concepts of drug design and development, including organic synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, chemical informatics, molecular modeling and drug design, drug metabolism, and specific therapeutic targets.
• GRS CH 645: Transition Metal Chemistry
  Introduction to the concepts of transition metal-mediated reactions and mechanisms, including electronic structure and properties, reaction mechanisms, kinetics, organometallic compounds, catalytic reactions, and aspects of asymmetric catalysis.
• GRS CH 651: Molecular Quantum Mechanics I
  Postulates of quantum mechanics with emphasis on chemical applications; application to model systems: particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, rigid rotor, hydrogen atom; tunneling; angular momentum theory, spin; ladder operators, computational methods.
• GRS CH 652: Molecular Quantum Mechanics II
  The chemical bond; Huckel, molecular orbital, and valence bond theories; ab initio methods, density functional theory; Born-Oppenheimer approximation/breakdown; time-dependent processes; Fermi's golden rule; non-adiabaticity; time-dependent perturbation theory; computational methods.
• GRS CH 654: Methods of Chemical Physics
  Vector calculus with applications. Fourier series and Fourier integral with applications and function of a complex variable with applications. Also Green's function methods, theory of linear vector spaces, and solutions of eigenfunction problems.
• GRS CH 655: Statistical Mechanics I
  Introduction to statistical mechanical fundamentals; ensemble theory, Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein, Gibbs-Boltzmann statistics; computational methods, Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics, many-body quantum mechanical simulations, normal mode analysis; ergodic hypothesis, modern theories of liquids and biomolecules, thermodynamic perturbation theory, integral equations, Debye-Huckel theory.
• GRS CH 656: Statistical Mechanics II
  Selected advanced topics may include theories of liquids, free energy perturbation theory, phase transitions, Ising model, Zimm-Bragg model of coil-to-helix transition; irreversible thermodynamics, scattering, linear response theory, time correlation functions, transport, models of diffusion, chemical reaction rate theory, and spectroscopy. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 699: Teaching College Chemistry I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in chemistry. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS CH 751: Advanced Topics in Physical Chemistry
  Current topics of research in physical chemistry. The course content varies with instructor.
• GRS CH 801: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing
  Introduction to scholarly writing, oral presentation, proposal development, data analysis, mentoring relationships, and ethical conduct in research
• GRS CH 802: Rsch Methods 2
  
• GRS CH 901: PhD Research in Chemistry
  
• GRS CH 902: PhD Research in Chemistry
  
• GRS CH 903: MA Research in Chemistry
  A written report at the end of each semester is required.
• GRS CH 904: MA Research in Chemistry
  A written report at the end of each semester is required.
• GRS CL 720: Latin Seminar
  Extensive readings in Latin authors. Specific topics may change. Topic for Fall 2011: Juvenal.

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