Due to the exceptional circumstances, the following courses will be offered this fall. You will find below specific information about how they will be delivered.
CHEM 110. General Chemistry 1.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A study of the fundamental principles of atomic structure, radiation and nuclear chemistry, valence theory, coordination chemistry, and the periodic table.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Fall
- Prerequisites/corequisites: High school mathematics and physics or permission of the instructor; CHEM 120 is not a prerequisite
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
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CHEM 183. World of Chemistry: Drugs.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Drug history and marketing, over the counter drugs (e.g. aspirin, cough and cold remedies, allergy preparations), street and heart drugs, mental illness, hormones, brain chemistry and diabetes.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 170.
- Fall
- 3 lecture hours/week
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CHEM 203. Survey of Physical Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The fundamentals of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with applications to biomolecular systems. Thermodynamic and kinetic control of biological processes.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204 or CHEM 213
- Restriction: Intended for students in biological science programs requiring only one course in physical chemistry Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204 or CHEM 213 or CHEM 223 and CHEM 243.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent.
- Restrictions: Intended for students in biological science programs requiring only one course in physical chemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204 or CHEM 213 or CHEM 223 and CHEM 243.
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CHEM 204. Physical Chemistry/Biological
Sciences 1.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Similar to /. Emphasis on the use of biological examples to illustrate the principles of physical chemistry. The relevance of physical chemistry to biology is stressed.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 203 or CHEM 213 or CHEM 223 and CHEM 243.
- Fall, Winter
- Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent and one full course in calculus
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 203 or CHEM 213.
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CHEM 212. Introductory Organic Chemistry 1.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
A fundamental study of aliphatic compounds and saturated functional groups including modern concepts of bonding, reaction mechanisms, conformational analysis, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
- Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry鈥檚 Web page ().
- Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page ().
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Fall, Summer
- Prerequisite: CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students registered in Chemistry or Biochemistry. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 211, CHEM 242, or equivalent.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page ().
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CHEM 213. Introductory Physical Chemistry 1: Thermodynamics.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Thermodynamics. Topics include gas laws, kinetic theory of collisions, heat capacity, enthalpy, thermochemistry, bond energies, the entropy and free energy functions, absolute entropies, Maxwell relations and chemical and thermodynamic equilibrium states, phase rule and phase diagrams, ideal solutions, colligative properties, solubility, electrochemistry, Debye-H眉ckel Theory.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 203 or CHEM 204
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204.
- Corequisite(s): MATH 222
- Prerequisites: CHEM 110, CHEM 120 or equivalent, PHYS 102 or PHYS 142, or permission of the instructor.
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CHEM 222. Introductory Organic Chemistry 2.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Summer 2025
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Description
Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
- Winter, Summer
- Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or CHEM 242 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to Chemistry or Biochemistry students. Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 234 or CHEM252.
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CHEM 267. Introductory Chemical Analysis.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey of methods of analysis including theory and practice of semimicro qualitative analysis and representative gravimetric, volumetric and instrumental methods. The laboratory component includes introductory experiments in analytical chemistry emphasizing classical and instrumental methods of quantitative analysis.
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, or equivalent
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CHEM 287 or CHEM 297
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CHEM 302. Introductory Organic Chemistry 3.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics covered may include the following: Aromatic compounds, heterocyclic chemistry, sulfur and phosphorus chemistry, organosulfur and organophosphorus compounds, and biomolecules such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, polypeptides, DNA and RNA.
- Prerequisites: BIOL 112, CHEM 222, or permission of the instructor.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: CHEM 222, or permission of the instructor.
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CHEM 345. Introduction to Quantum Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An introduction to quantum chemistry covering the historical development, wave theory, methods of quantum mechanics, and applications of quantum chemistry.
- Restriction: For Chemistry Honours and Majors only
- Restriction: For Chemistry Honours and Majors only
- Fall
- Prerequisites: CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, and PHYS 142, or permission of instructor.
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CHEM 381. Inorganic Chemistry 2.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Introduction to transition metal chemistry, coordination numbers and geometry, and nomenclature will be followed by a discussion of crystal field theory and its applications to problems in spectroscopy, magnetochemistry, thermodynamics and kinetics. Several aspects related to applications of organometallic compounds in catalysis and bioinorganic systems will be discussed.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or plan to take CHEM 301
- Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students
- Fall
- Prerequisite: CHEM 281.
- Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students
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CHEM 429. Chemistry of Energy, Storage and Utilization.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Energy consumption and human development; green house gases; primary and secondary sources of energy, fuels vs. electricity; energy transport and storage; fossil fuels; nuclear energy; fusion and fission; bioenergetics, natural and artificial
photosynthesis; novel materials; nanocomposites; photochemistry; electrochemistry; photovoltaics and batteries; fuel cells; catalysis and biomass.
- Prerequisites: CHEM 212; CHEM 223 and CHEM 243; or CHEM 213 and CHEM 273; or CHEM 204 or CHEM 203; or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 319.
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CHEM 462. Green Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
New reactions and methods which can be used for the production of chemicals from renewable feedstocks; the use of new environmentally benign solvents, catalysts and reagents; organic reactions in aqueous media and in supercritical carbon dioxide; bio-catalysis and bio-processes.
- Prerequisites: CHEM 302 and CHEM 381
- Fall
- Prerequisites: CHEM 302 and CHEM 381
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CHEM 503. Drug Discovery.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the overall drug discovery process. The main focus of the course will be on medicinal chemistry, synthesis and
catalysis, as they relate to large-scale production of pharmaceutical agents. However, other aspects of drug discovery, including structural research (e.g. NMR, X-ray), biochemistry, drug metabolism and bioavailability will also be included.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken PHAR 503
- Restriction: U3 and graduate students. Students can register only with permission of coordinators.
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 302 and one of BIOL 200 or CHEM 332, or permission of instructor.
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CHEM 505. Computer Modeling of Molecules and Materials.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A comprehensive introduction to computational methods and software for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The main focus of the course is on important practical aspects of chemistry-related computer modeling: how to perform simulations reliably and efficiently, and how to interpret simulation results. Two main classes of computer simulations--electronic structure methods and statistical mechanics methods--will be discussed in detail together with a wide range of chemical examples.
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 345 or equivalent and CHEM 365 or PHYS 329 or equivalent, and COMP 202 or COMP 208 or equivalent.
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CHEM 520. Methods in Chemical Biology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
An overview of advanced techniques at the leading edge of Chemical Biology, including some or all of: biological imaging, kinetics of enzyme inhibition, combinatorial synthesis, atomic force microscopy of biological molecules, self assembling biomimetic structures, oligonucleotide therapeutics, biomolecular X-ray crystallography, computational methods, and nuclear magnetic resonance applied to protein interactions.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: BIOL 200 and CHEM 345 and CHEM 302, or permission of instructor
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CHEM 532. Structural Organic Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A practical course on the application of modern spectroscopic methods for the determination of structures of complex organic and organometallic compounds.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: CHEM 302
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 352
- 3 hours lecture
- 1 hour Drop-in lab
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CHEM 534. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Topics discussed include scanning probe microscopy, chemical self-assembly, computer modelling, and microfabrication/micromachining.
- Fall
- Prerequisites: CHEM 434 or PHYS 334 or permission of instructor
- Corequisites: one of CHEM 345, PHYS 357, or PHYS 346 or permission of instructor
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking PHYS 534
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CHEM 552. Physical Organic Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The correlation of theory with physical measurements on organic systems; an introduction to photochemistry; solvent and substituent effects on organic reaction rates, etc.; reaction mechanisms.
- Winter
- Prerequisite: CHEM 302
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CHEM 571. Polymer Synthesis.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey of polymer preparation and characterization; mechanisms of chain growth, including free radical, cationic, anionic, condensation and transition metal-mediated polymerization, and the effects of these mechanisms on polymer architecture; preparation of alternating, block, graft and stereoblock copolymers; novel macromolecular structures including dendrimers and other nanostructures.
- Prerequisite: CHEM 302 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
- Fall
- Prerequisite: CHEM 302 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
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CHEM 574. Introductory Polymer Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A survey course on the structure of polymers, kinetics and mechanisms of polymer and copolymer synthesis; characterization and molecular weight distributions; polymer microstructure, the thermodynamics of polymer solutions; the crystalline and amorphous states, rubber elasticity and structure-property relationships.
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: CHEM 223 and CHEM 243 or CHEM 213 and CHEM 273, or CHEM 233 (for engineering students only), or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CHEM 455 or CHEM 674.
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CHEM 591. Bioinorganic Chemistry.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
The roles of transition and main group elements in biology and medicine will be examined with an emphasis on using tools for structure and genome searching as well as becoming acquainted with experimental spectroscopic methods useful for bioinorganic chemistry such as macromolecular X-ray diffraction, EPR and EXAFS.
- Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students or with permission
- Winter
- Prerequisite: CHEM 381
- Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students or with permission
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CHEM 621. Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry.
Credits: 5
Offered by: Chemistry (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
A systematic survey of the mechanisms of the most common organic reactions from studies of reactions in the current literature.
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BIOT 505. Selected Topics in Biotechnology.
Credits: 3
Offered by: Chemistry (Faculty of Science)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Current methods and recent advances in biological, medical, agricultural and engineering aspects of biotechnology will be described and discussed. An extensive reading list will complement the lecture material.
- Fall
- Restriction: U3 students
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