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CHM 342: Macromolecular and Analytical Chemistry (4)

Prerequisites: CHM 102

Part A:

• Monomers, dimers, and oligomers
• Polymerization by carbonyl substitution reactions, electrophilic substitutions, S_N2 reactions, Nucleophilic attack on isocyantes
• Polymerization of olefins: radical polymerization, anionic (living polymerization) and cationic polymerization, Isotactic, Syndiotactic, and Atactic polymerization, Ziegler-Natta polymerization
• Co-polymerization: Synthetic Rubber, Cross-linking polymer
• Biodegradable polymers
• Reactions of polymers: Merrifield resins, peptide synthesis using polymer-bound reagents, polyacryl amide gels

Part B:

• Calculations used in analytical chemistry
• Errors in chemical analysis
• Classical methods of analysis: Gravimetric, Volumetric and Titrimetric, Potentiometric methods
• Separation techniques: Introduction to analytical separation, gas chromatography, and HPLC and related methods
• Preparing samples for analysis: primary, secondary standard etc.

Suggested Books:

• Clayden, J., Greeves, N., Warren, S., Wothers, S. Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Skoog, West, Holler, Crouch., Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry, Cengage Learning.

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