CHEM 6002 Organic Materials Chemistry

Organic materials are among the most versatile and most widely used materials. Organic Materials chemistry is a graduate level chemistry course which will build on the fundamental aspects of polymers, their special properties, their synthesis, and their characterizations. Other new types of organic materials such as chiral polymers, supramolecular systems, biodegradable polymers, lightemitting polymers, and metal organic framework will also be introduced. The major focus of this course will be the synthesis and preparation methods of variety of different types of materials. Modern characterization techniques will also be described, including NMR/IR spectroscopy, thermal analysis, and x-ray scattering. Cutting-edge synthetic methodologies for organic materials synthesis, including palladium-mediated cross coupling reactions, will be included. The students will actively participate in class by giving short presentations and summaries of literature topics for their peers to improve on
their scientific communication skills. The laboratory component will focus on the synthesis and analysis of different organic materials to familiarize students with modern synthetic methodologies and laboratory techniques of organic materials synthesis.

Prerequisite(s): CHEM 2570 (Organic Chemistry I lecture and lab) and CHEM 2580 (Organic Chemistry II lecture and lab), or equivalent undergraduate course sequence in Organic Chemistry.
Credits: 4.0