CHEM& 163 - General Chemistry III W/Lab

• Design a buffer by performing Henderson-Hasselbalch calculations.
• Apply equilibrium theory to the physiology of blood.
• Predict the pH characteristics of salts.
• Diagram the important photochemical reactions occurring in.
• Compare the important reactions involved in ozone depletion, acid rain, and photochemical smog.
• Predict whether a reaction is spontaneous by calculating Gibbs’ Free Energy changes under standard and nonstandard conditions.
• Balance redox reactions by the half-reaction method.
• Predict the reduction potential for a voltaic cell with the Nernst equation.
• Balance nuclear equations and predict isotope stability.
• Predict the half-life of isotopes using the integrated first order rate equation.
• Differentiate between coordination compounds and complex ions on the basis of coordination numbers, charges, and geometries.
• Choose the colors generated by different emission and absorption spectra.
• Classify normal chain and cyclic alkanes, alkenes and alkynes with structural formulas, condensed structural formulas, and line angle drawings.
• Differentiate between structural, constitutional, and geometric isomers.
• Compare the characteristic chemistry of alcohols, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, anhydrides, esters and amides.
• Test the phenomena studied in lecture via the safe use of laboratory glassware, equipment and reagents.

1. Environmental Chemistry
2. Thermodynamics
3. Electrochemistry
4. Nuclear Chemistry
5. Organic and Biochemistry