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Chemistry:

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The Department of Chemistry at MIT is one of the nation's top chemistry departments. It has an illustrious history in sharing the MIT tradition of excellence, and it has provided national leadership in chemical education and research throughout the century.

 

UnderGraduates Courses:

-   Process Dynamics, Operations, and Control, Spring 2003

Reading
Lecture notes
Assignments

1- Symmetry Elements and Operations

2- Operator Properties and Mathematical Groups

3- Similarity Transforms, Classes and Representations

4- Characters and Character Tables

5- Molecular Point Groups I

6- Molecular Point Groups II 

7- LCAO and Hückel Theory I

8- Hückel Theory II

9- N-Dimensional Cyclic Systems

10- From Molecular Orbitals to Bands

11- Band Theory

12- Frontier Molecular Orbitals: σ Ligands

13- Frontier Molecular Orbitals: π Ligands

14- ML6 σ Complexes

15- Angular Overlap Method and M-L Diatomics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1- Symmetry Elements and Operations

2- Operator Properties and Mathematical Groups

3- Similarity Transforms, Classes and Representations

(PDF)

4- Characters and Character Tables

(PDF)

5- Molecular Point Groups I

(PDF)

6- Molecular Point Groups II

7- LCAO and Hückel Theory I

8- Hückel Theory II

  (PDF)

9- N-Dimensional Cyclic Systems

10- From Molecular Orbitals to Bands

11- Frontier Molecular Orbitals: σ Ligands

(PDF)

12- Angular Overlap Method and M-L Diatomics

 (PDF)

13- AOM for MLn Ligand Fields

(PDF)

14-Spectrochemical Series (Oh) / Descent in Symmetry

 (PDF)

15-Multiply Bonded Metal-Ligand Complexes

16- Sandwich Compounds

17- Bent Cp Complexes

1- Problem set1

2- Problem set2

3- Problem set3

4- Problem set4

5- Problem set5

6- Problem set6

 

Graduates Courses:

-   Principles of Inorganic Chemistry III, Spring 2005

Reading
Lecture notes
Assignments

1- Introduction and Theory

2- Aluminum Chemistry I

3- Aluminum II

4- Phosphorus

5- Gallium and Indium

6- Gallium Multiple Bonds

7- Gallium, Phosphorus, and Tin

8- Nitrogen, Halogens, Noble Gases

9- Fluorine, Krypton

10- Relativistic Effects

11-Gold, Fluorine, Xenon

 

 

 

 

1- Aluminum Chemistry I

2- Aluminum II

3- Phosphorus

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4-Gallium Multiple Bonds

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5-Gallium, Phosphorus, and Tin

(PDF)

6- Relativistic Effects

7-Fluorine, Krypton

1- Choose molecule and model from Robinson's work

2- Optimize geom. and get wavefunction

3- Gaussian or ADF output => DGrid data in "Gaussian Cube Format"

4- Visualize and analyze => VRML as output

UnderGraduates / Graduate Courses:

-   Principles of Inorganic Chemistry III, Spring 2005

Reading
Lecture notes
Assignments

- RNAse and the Development of Modern Protein Biochemistry

- Moore, Stanford, and William H. Stein. "Chemical Structures of Pancreatic Ribonuclease and Deoxyribonuclease." Science 180 (4 May 1973): 458-464.

- Refolding of Denatured RNAse In Vitro

- Sela, M., F. H. White Jr., and C. B. Anfinsen. "Reductive Cleavage of Disulfide Bridges in Ribonuclease." Science 125 (1957): 691-692.

- White, Frederick H. "Regeneration of Native Secondary and Tertiary Structures by Air Oxidation of Reduced Ribonuclease." J. Biol. Chem. 236 (1961): 1353-1360.

- Anfinsen, C. B., and Edgar Haber. "Studies on the Reduction and Re-formation of Protein Disulfide Bonds." J. Biol. Chem. 236 (1960): 1361-1363.

- Anfinsen, C. B., Edgar Haber, M. Sela, and F. H. White, Jr. "The Kinetics of Formation of Native Ribonuculease During Oxidation of the Reduced Polypeptide Chain." PNAS 47 (1961): 1309-1314.

- Folding of Coiled Coils List

- Lehrer, Sherwin S., and Amy Yuan. "The Stability of Tropomyosin at Acid pH: Effects of Anion Binding." J. Structural Biology 122 (1998): 176-179.

- Lehrer, Sherwin S., Yude Qian, and Soren Hvidt. "Assembly of the Native heterodimer of Rana Esculenta Tropomyosin by Chain Exchange." Science 246 (1989): 926-928.

- Suarez, Marisa C., Sherwin S. Lehrer, and Jerson L. Silva. "Local Heterogeneity in the Pressure Denaturation of the Coiled-coil Tropomyosin because of Subdomain Folding Units." Biochemistry 40 (2001): 1300-1307.

1- Introduction to the Problem 

2- The Anfinsen Experiments

3- Packing of Secondary Structures - JK

(PDF)

4- Packing of Secondary Structures: Beta-sheets and Beta-sheet Packing

(PDF)

5- Coiled Coils (Fully Illustrated)

(PDF)

6- S-peptide Helical Folding 

7- S-peptide Helical Folding, (cont.)

8- Detecting Folding Intermediates

7- Cytochrome Refolding

Assignment #1

1. Give the ranges of backbone Phi/PSi angle ranges found for alpha helical regions in proteins. For beta strand conformations.

2. What are the origins of the values in B&T figures 1.7a and 1.7b?

3. What is the average length of alpha helices found in crystal structures of globular proteins? Beta-strands?

4. What is the handedness of the helices shown in Pauling, Corey and Branson? The handedness of the alpha helices in the B&T reading?

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