A one-semester course for students who have completed more than one year of high school chemistry, replacing CHEM 105 and CHEM 205 as a prerequisite for more advanced chemistry courses. It presents the topics of nuclear chemistry, atomic structure and bonding, periodicity, kinetics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, solubility, and transition metal chemistry. All of these topics are presented in the context of both historical and contemporary applications. The laboratory includes experiments directly related to topics covered in lecture including: nuclear chemistry, an introduction to statistical analysis of data, molecular modeling and computational chemistry, instrumental and classical methods of analysis, kinetics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, as well as solid-state structures and transition metal/ligand chemistry. The course meets for four periods of lecture/discussion and one 3.5-hour laboratory.

Units: 1.25

Max Enrollment: 32

Prerequisites: Open to students who have a score 5 on the Chemistry AP exam, B or higher on the A-levels, or an IB Chemistry higher level score of 5 or above. Fulfillment of the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) component of the Quantitative Reasoning & Data Literacy requirement. Not open to students who have completed CHEM 105, CHEM 105P, CHEM 116 and/or CHEM 205.