2010 Fall semester

First classes:                            8 September 
Last classes:                            9 December

Classes: 8:15-10:00  Tue and Wed, at CH/computer room

Holidays                                  15 Sepetmber - Sport

                                                18 November (Student's scientific meeting)

Examination period:                  19 December to 29 January (No exams between 23 December  and 1 January)

Book

General Chemistry
Principles and Modern Applications
Eighth Edition
by
Ralph H. Petrucci
California State University, San Bernadino
William S. Harwood
Indiana University, Bloomington
and
F. Geoffrey Herring
University of British Columbia

Companion Website Author
Narayan S. Hosmane
Northern Illinois University

Hill Petrucci

Lecture notes: Prof. Victor S. Batista (Yale)

Book: Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity, 6th Edition; Kotz, Treichel, & Weaver: free samples of this book

Related Nobel Prizes in chemistry:

• 2009 - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
• 2008 - Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien: "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
• 2007 - Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
• 2006 - Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
• 2003 - Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
• 2000 - Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa "discovery and development of conductive polymers"
• 1999 - Ahmed Zewail "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"
• 1998 - Walter Kohn,"for his development of the density-functional theory" John Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
• 1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou (ATP)
• 1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley  "for their discovery of fullerenes"
• 1995 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland "formation and decomposition of ozone"
• 1994 - George A. Olah "carbocation chemistry"
• 1991 - Richard R. Ernst "nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
• 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi "the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
• 1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle "for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"
• 1976 - William Lipscomb "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"
• 1975 - John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog "streochemistry"
• 1971 - Gerhard Herzberg "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
• 1969 - Derek Barton, Odd Hassel "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"
• 1968 - Lars Onsager "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
• 1966 - Robert S. Mulliken "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
• 1961 - Melvin Calvin "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
• 1960 - Willard F. Libby "carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics"
• 1954 - Linus Pauling "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
• 1952 - Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge "for their invention of partition chromatography"
• 1944 - Otto Hahn "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
• 1943 - George de Hevesy "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
• 1936 - Peter Debye "on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases"
• 1935 - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie "synthesis of new radioactive elements"
• 1934 - Harold C. Urey "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
• 1932 - Irving Langmuir "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry"
• 1931 - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius "invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"
• 1925 - Richard Zsigmondy "colloids"
• 1922 - Francis W. Aston "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule"
• 1921 - Frederick Soddy "origin and nature of isotopes"
• 1920 - Walther Nernst "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"
• 1918 - Fritz Haber "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"
• 1914 - Theodore W. Richards "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"
• 1911 - Marie Curie "radium and polonium"
• 1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald Catalysis, chemical equilibria, rates of reaction
• 1908 - Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
• 1906 - Henri Moissan "investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him"
• 1904 - Sir William Ramsay "inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system"
• 1903 - Svante Arrhenius "electrolytic theory of dissociation"
• 1901 - Jacobus H. van 't Hoff: Osmotic pressure