Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

CHEM 421 - Physical Organic Chemistry


(3 units)

Prerequisites: CHEM 220B  with a grade of “C” or better.
Prerequisite/Corequisite: CHEM 371B  or CHEM 377B . Undergraduates enroll in CHEM 421; graduates in CHEM 521 .

Theoretical interpretation of chemical and physical properties of organic compounds: mathematical derivations of rate equations from experimental results, quantitative comparison of organic compounds reactivities, mathematical correlations of structure and properties. Solving problems relating to reaction mechanisms to described factors.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.) CHEM 521