Professor: Carl Salter CHS 218               phone 625-7920

Text: P. W. Atkins, Physical Chemistry, 6th Ed.
Saunders Publishing Co., 1994  plus
Magick, Mayhem, and Mavericks by Cathy Cobb, Prometheus
Chemistry for Environmental Engineers 3rd Ed by C.N. Sawyer and P.l. McCarty, McGraw-Hill

Course Objectives:
The Advanced Physical Chemistry course will cover modern theories and techniques in physical chemistry that are applied to many areas of chemical research. To this end, the two principle topics of the course will be computational chemistry and spectroscopy. All three modern techniques in computational chemistry, molecular mechanics, semi-empirical methods, and ab initio methods will be studied, and we will look at examples from the literature where these computational methods have been used in research applications. The wide variety of spectroscopic techniques used to analyze chemical systems will be examined, with particular focus on vibrational and rotational spectroscopy. Lasers and modern laser spectroscopy will also be covered.
 
Topics:

Physical Chemistry Review:  Swimming Pool Chemistry

Molecular Symmetry Chapter 15 1,2,4,7,8,13,14

Computational Chemistry Handout

Rotational and Vibrational Spectroscopy Chapter 16 4,6,8,9,11,12

Electronic Spectroscopy Chapter 17 1,2,3,4,5,8,12

Lasers Handout, JMU laser workshop

Magnetic Resonance Chapter 18 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Written Summary of a Chapter from Magick... by C. Cobb             15%
                    Class presentation during March 14-16
Personal Projects: J. Phys. Chem. article Summary and Calculation 20%
                    Class presentation during April 11-15
Chapter Homework from Atkins                                                     15%

Exams: Mid-term                                                                            20%

Final                                                                                               30%