Lecture courses

Heterocyclic chemistry is of the utmost practical and theoretical importance. Heterocyclic compounds are in use as pharmaceuticals, dyes, pesticides, herbicides, plastics, and for many other purposes the industries producing and researching into these products provide employment for a large fraction of all chemists. On the theoretical side, heterocyclic chemistry has provided a host of interesting concepts and structures. Yet, the subject is often deprived of the importance it deserves it is said that it is possible to complete work at graduate schools of some universities without having attended a lecture course dealing specifically with heterocyclic chemistry. 

If you have not yet learned about tosylates in your lecture course, you might want to consult your textbook for more information on tosylates. 

The kind collaborations of J. Ramsay and S. King in allowing the use of some parts of their University of Bradford lecture course material on numerical integration is gratefully acknowledged. 

Roulet A, Puel O, Gesta S, Drag M, Soll M, Alvineri M et al. MDR Pharmacogenetics in dog. Presented at the 3rd FEBS Advanced Lecture Course. 

The content of the book is based on the 6-h-per-week lecture course which one of us (G. Ventura) has given at the University of Florence between 2001 and 2006. In authors intents, the book should stand alone as a practical guide to cryogenics. For this reason, a brief chapter about vacuum techniques precedes the cryogenic items. 

The experimental section which follows has been kept fairly short. I have tried to convey the essence of each method and have provided at least one example for its application. Ideally, a lecture course based on this book should be followed by a laboratory course in which the students learn some of the details and tricks. 

Literature as well as lecture courses can serve as a basis for the required body of knowledge and hence student preparation. A vigorous effort is made to encourage regular and current reading of the literature. The subject area is vast, and a periodicals bibliography is very useful. 

Not surprisingly, these histories differed markedly from one another according to their country of origin. Thomas Thomson s two-volume history of chemistry and Dumas s lecture course in philosophical chemistry, both published in the 1830s, present somewhat different accounts by chemists of the formation of chemistry as a discipline. Thomson gives a more favorable reading to the work of German chemists Johann J. Becher and Stahl and considerably more detail than Dumas to British chemists.38... 

My professors gave little thought to slowing down the lecture course a little in order to examine certain questions which should have been necessary. Four and a half hours was all the time devoted to generalities in the classes spe dales, if one had doubled this time it would not have been detrimental to the seventeenth property of chlorous anhydride that one might have had to omit.28... 

Basically, the committee proposed that all lecture courses include portions of the first seven topics with the level and extent of coverage guided by factors such as available class time, additional topics covered, interest of instructor, student interests, and class composition. It must be emphasized that the optional topics listed should not be considered limiting and that additional topics can be introduced. 

Tennant was destined to give his lecture course at Cambridge only once, for his life was cut short by a tragic accident, the following account of which was written by Dr. Marcet to Berzelius on March 29,1815 ... 

With the pressure to find enough time for all of the topics in the lecture course, you might decide to move some topics from the lecture course into the laboratory course. For example, you might not include polymer chemistry in the lecture course, but might include a polymer experiment in the laboratory, along with some discussion of polymer chemistry. You might also decide to include computational chemistry and molecular modeling in the laboratory course instead of in the lecture course. 

Virtual Substance can be used as supplemental homework assignments in the physical chemistry lecture course or as laboratory modules for a physical... 

The prerequisites for the course include two years of chemistry, including organic, analytical, and an introductory inorganic chemistry course, one year of calculus-based physics, three terms of calculus, and introduction to differential equations usually taken concurrently. Most students take the computational laboratory concurrent with the physical chemistry lecture course covering... 

The benefit of this course is that it provides all students taking the physical chemistry lecture course with the same mathematical foundation. In the physical chemistry lecture we can discuss the relationship between different thermodynamic functions without stopping to review partial derivatives. We can talk about the difference between work, heat, and energy without stopping to teach the difference between path functions and work functions. We can write... 

Two other topics that are absent from the lecture course - kinetics and thermodynamics of condensed phases - are covered in the laboratory course, as well as in advanced elective courses. 

Physical Chemistry Laboratory is a two-credit lab course meeting twice a week. The laboratory course complements the lecture course in two, disparate, ways. All of the experiments emphasize the theme of model-building and prediction of physical and/or chemical behavior. In addition to building on the... 

Our physical chemistry curriculum revision is clearly a work in progress . More work is needed so that the math course is more clearly and closely tied to the physical chemistry lecture course. The content of the lecture course needs to be refined and assessed. Finally, the laboratory experiments need to be modernized to more closely reflect current experimental physical chemistry. 

The student s first exposure to biochemistry is probably a lecture course accompanied by the reading of a general textbook of biochemistry. By providing an in-depth survey of biochemistry, textbooks allow students to build a strong foundation of important principles and concepts. By the time most books are in print, the information is 1 to 2 years old, but textbooks still should be considered the starting point for mastery of the fundamentals of biochemistry. 

Chapters III and IV are confined to the preparation and properties of Aliphatic Compounds and Aromatic Compounds respectively. This division, although perhaps artificial, falls into line with the treatment in many of the existing theoretical textbooks and also with the author s own lecture courses. A short theoretical introduction precedes the detailed preparations of the various classes... 

This book has been written primarily for pharmacy undergraduates to provide a modem text to complement lecture courses dealing with pharmacognosy and the use of natural products in medicine. Nevertheless, it should be of value in most other courses where the study of natural products is included, although the examples chosen are predominantly those possessing pharmacological activity. 

This chapter is based (in part) on lecture courses given by M. Olivucci at the EPA Summer School in Noorwick, Holland, June 16-20, 1998, and by M. A. Robb at the Jyvaskyla Summer School, Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 3-21, 1998. We are grateful to the organizers of these schools for the opportunity to present this material and especially to the participants for their searching questions. 

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