Courses

CHEM 232: Sophomore-level Organic Chemistry for Undergraduate Students...this is a foundational Organic Chemistry Course that is required for most undergraduate students. In addition to learning atomic and molecular orbital theories, students learn bonding patterns, molecular structures, functional groups, reactions, mechanisms, acids-bases reactions, etc.

CHEM 539–Special Topic in Organic Chemistry: Organic Photochemical Reactions: This interdisciplinary course covers various organic chemistry reactions initiated by light. Students enrolled in this course will learn basic and advanced concepts of organic photochemistry as well as tools that can be used to decipher reaction mechanisms and identify reactive intermediates. Additionally, the course covers mechanisms and synthetic tactics and their practical applications in synthetic chemistry and natural product synthesis.

CHEM 232: Sophomore-level Organic Chemistry for Undergraduate Students...this is a foundational Organic Chemistry Course that is required for most undergraduate students. In addition to learning atomic and molecular orbital theories, students learn bonding patterns, molecular structures, functional groups, reactions, mechanisms, acids-bases reactions, etc.

CHEM 549–Special Topic in Physical Chemistry: Photochemistry & Photophysics...Students learn fundamental and advanced techniques in photoscience. Students learn to decipher organic photochemical reaction mechanisms by studying various types of reactive intermediates (from spectroscopy/photophysical techniques), the role of spin chemistry in controlling photochemical pathways, retro-synthetic photochemistry, and light-induced organic functional groups interconversion, photochemical reactions of carbonyls, olefins, enones, and aromatic compounds, light-induced energy transfer, quantum yield measurements & Stern-Volmer quenching experiments, application of photochemistry in material science and engineering, application of photochemistry/photophysics in life science and bio-imaging, enzymatic photochemistry, quantum dot, and visible-light photoredox catalysis.

CHEM 232: Sophomore-level Organic Chemistry for Undergraduate Students...this is a foundational Organic Chemistry Course that is required for most undergraduate students. In addition to learning atomic and molecular orbital theories, students learn bonding patterns, molecular structures, functional groups, reactions, mechanisms, acids-bases reactions, etc.