Teaching at SHU
HAZARD SET FORWARD
Graduate courses:
CHEM 6301 Theoretical Organic Chemistry I: This course examines the theoretical and experimental tools that modern organic chemists use to elucidate reaction mechanisms. This includes the art of writing a reasonable arrow-pushing mechanism for a reaction and designing experiments to test your proposed theories.
CHEM 7399 Modern Catalysis in Organic Chemistry: This course provides an overview of modern catalysis for the synthesis of organic molecules. Topics of interest include: photocatalysis, transition metal catalysis, organocatalysis, hypervalent iodides (HVIs), stereochemistry, conformational analysis, hydrogen atom transfer, reaction rates, transition state theory, isotopic labeling, late-stage functionalization, frontier molecular orbital theory. The art of using catalysis to enable the synthesis of complex molecules is also discussed (This course is cross-listed for undergraduates as CHEM 4399).
CHEM 6303 Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry: This course introduces the synthesis of complex organic molecules. The art of multistep synthesis, retrosynthesis, stereochemistry, conformational analysis, protecting groups, enolate chemistry, selective reduction and oxidation, the Diels- Alder reaction, electrocyclizations, Woodward-Hoffmann rules, and sigmatropic rearrangements (This course is cross-listed for undergraduates as CHEM 4303).
Undergraduate courses:
CHEM 2313 Organic Chemistry I: This course is accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is designed for those students majoring in Chemistry or other hard sciences (i.e. Physics). In the lecture portion of this course, students learn the structures and nomenclature, and the chemical, physical, and spectroscopic properties of organic compounds. This course is coupled with 2-laboratory sections.
CHEM 2314 Organic Chemistry II: This course is accredited by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is designed for those students majoring in Chemistry or other hard sciences (i.e. Physics). In the lecture portion of this course, students learn the structures and nomenclature, and the chemical, physical, and spectroscopic properties of organic compounds. This course is coupled with 2-laboratory sections.
CHEM 1124 General Chemistry II: This course teaches the fundamental concepts that enable students to understand how atoms interact to form bonds and molecules, and how molecules behave on both macro- and microscopic scales. Specifically, this course covers kinetics, equilibriums, acid/base theory, electrochemistry, thermodynamics, and radioactivity.
CHEM 2321 Organic Chemistry I: This course is the large organic chemistry lecture (150+ students). The course is designed to prepare pre-meds and non-hard science majors for a variety of careers. Specifically, students who successfully complete this course learn the structure and nomenclature, and the chemical, physical and spectroscopic properties of organic compounds. They learn about the fundamental chemical reactivities of organic compounds and learn how to design chemical syntheses.
CHEM 2322 Organic Chemistry II: This course is the second part of the large organic chemistry lecture series (150+ students). The course is designed to prepare pre-meds and non-hard science majors for a variety of careers. Specifically, students who successfully complete this course learn the structure and nomenclature, and the chemical, physical and spectroscopic properties of organic compounds. They learn about the fundamental chemical reactivities of organic compounds and learn how to design chemical syntheses.
CHEM 2315/16 Organic Chemistry Laboratory: Lab for non-majors.
