Chemistry
CHM 342: Macromolecular and Analytical Chemistry (4)
Prerequisites: CHM 102
Part A:
- Monomers, dimers, and oligomers
- Polymerization by carbonyl substitution reactions, electrophilic substitutions, SN2 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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