The Department offers a Master of Science Degree after the fulfillment of the following requirements:

1)       Completion of remedial courses recommended by the department.

2)       Completion of (30) credit hours distributed as follows: 

a-       Obligatory courses (18 Cr. Hr.) as follows: 

 b-       Elective courses (12 Cr. Hr.) chosen from the following 600 level courses offered by the Department of Chemistry: 

3)       Successful passing of the Basic Exam. (Chem. 697) organized by the Department.

4)       Presentation and a successful defending of a thesis (Chem. 699- 9 Cr. Hr.).
 

List of Graduate Courses offered by the Department of Chemistry  

COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY FOR THE MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE 

Chemistry 611 : Advanced Organic Chemistry           (3 Cr. Hr.)

(Structure and Mechanism of Reactions)

Localized and de localized chemical bonding, Reactions intermediates, Carbenium ions, Carbanions Free radical and Carbenes, Mechanisms and methods of determining them, Free energy relationship, Aliphatic and Aromatic Nucleophilic Substitution, Aliphatic and Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution, Addition reactions to C-C and multiple bonds, Elimination reaction, Rearrangments, Free radicals. 

Chemistry 612 : Advanced Organic Chemistry

(Synthesis and Reactions)                                               (3 Cr. Hr.)

Addition reactions to C-C multiple bonds, Alkylation of Nucleophilic carbon, C- C bond formation, Elonates and enamines, Reaction of Carbon Nucleophiles with carbonyl groups, Functional group Inter conversion by Nucleophilic Substitution, Reduction of carbonyl groups and other functional groups, Oxidation, Organometallic reagents, Reactions involving carbenes, nitrenes and other electron deficient intermediates. 

Chemistry 613 : Chemistry of

Heterocyclic Compounds                                                (3 Cr. Hr.)

Synthesis, Structure and Reactions of 3,4,5 and 6 membered-rings, Heterocycles involving O, N and/or S Heteroatoms, in addition to their fused ring structures. 

Chemistry 614 : Reactive Intermediates I :

Free Radicals and Carbenes Free Radicals :                (3 Cr. Hr. )

Introduction, Structure of Radicals, Generation of Free radicals, Detection of Free radicals, Reactions of Free radicals including, coupling, addition, substitution, Fragmentation and Rearrangment, Intermolecular and Intramolecular bond forming reactions including radical cyclization (Tandem Cyclization and Trans anular cyclization), homolytic aromatic substitution reactions.

Carbenes :

Introduction, Structure of carbenes, Generation of carbnes, Reactions of carbenes, including addition reaction to double bond and insertion reactions, Carbene rearrangment, Nitrenes (Nitrogen analogous of Carbenes) and Carbenoids. 

Chemistry 615 : Reactive Intermediates II :

Carbocations and Carbanions Carbocations :             (3 Cr. Hr.)

Introduction, Cation stability, Cation rearrangments classical Vs. Nonclassical carbocation.  Introduction, Enolate anions including : Formation of Enolate, Reactions of enolate with electrophiles, Enolate condensation reactions, Stereoselective enolate reaactions, Michael addition and the Robension Annulation, Enolate Reactions of a-halocarbonyl derivatives, Acetylides, Organomagnesium and organo lithium reagents, Sulful stabilized carbanions, Organo copper reagents, Ylids (Phosphorous and Sulfur) and Organo iron compounds. 

Chemistry 616 : Organic Photochemistry                     (3 Cr. Hr.)

Introduction and Basic Principles, Excited state; production and Time-Independent properties, Excited states; Time Dependent phenomena, Quenching of Excited states, Investigation of Reaction mechanisms, Orbital symmetry and photochemistry, C=O chromophores, C=C chromophores, aromatic chromophores, Nitrogen chromophores, Saturated chromophores. 

Chemistry 617 : Stereochemistry                                    (3 Cr. Hr.)

Introduction and molecular symmetry, Stereoisomerism, Optical Isomers, Optical Isomerism due to asymmetric atoms, Raceic modification, Stereoisomerism of allenes and related compd, Asymmetric synthesis, Conformational analysis; for cyclic molecules, Conformational analysis of cyclohexane, Conformational analysis in ring system other than cyclohexane. 

Chemistry 618 : Chemistry of Natural Products          (3 Cr. Hr.)

The course covers the following subjects: Carbohydrates, Glycosides and antibiotics related; Aromatic (Benzenoids, Coumarins and Anciamines); Lactones and pyrones; Naphthalenes, Naphthoquinones; Terpenoids (mono,di,tri, and poly), Carroteins; Steroids and Cholestanes; Aminoacids and Proteins; Alkaloids; Fatty acids and Derivatives; Porphyrins and Chlorophylls; Models of Natural Products from Plant and Animal sources and its Economic Value.  

Chemistry 621 : Chemical Application

of Group Theory                                                               (3 Cr. Hr.)

Definitions and theorems of Group theory. Molecular symmetry and symmetry groups. Representation of groups : Character tables. Applications : molecular orbital theory, hybrid ortibal and molecular orbital for Abn type molecules, ligand field theory, electronic and vibrational spectra. 

Chemistry 622 : Advanced Transition

Metal Chemistry                                                                (3 Cr. Hr.)

Isomerism in coordination chemistry-optically active isomers, absolute configuration, configuration number, chirality symbol, methods for the determination of absolute configuration (Optical Rotatory Dispersion (ORD) and Circular Dichroism (CD)). Biochemical applications of transition metals : hemoglobin, myoglobin, cytochromes, Fe-S proteins and Vitamin B12. Reaction mechanisms-Electron Transfer reactions. Zero valent transition metal complexes. 

Chemistry 623 :

Advanced Organometallic Chemistry                           (3 Cr. Hr.)

General properties of organometallic complexes. Transition metal carbon and hydrogen bonds. Ligand substitution reactions. Complexes of P-bound ligands. Carbenes, carbynes and

polymerization. Clusters and metal-metal bonds. Applications to organic synthesis.

 Chemistry 624 :

Transition Elements and Catalysis                                (3 Cr. Hr.)

Principles of catalysis. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Transition elements in the periodic table and volcano curves. Electronic properties of transition elements and catalysis. The surface chemical bonds. Group VIII elements and their catalytic effect. Enhancement of catalyst action by addition of lanthanides and actinides. The kinetics and thermodynamics of some heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic processes. 

Chem. 631 : Analytical Methods of Separation           (3 Cr. Hr.)

Classification of separation methods. Separation by precipitation, distillation and solvent extraction. Chromatographic separations : Gas chromatography, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). Partition, adsorption, Ion-exchange, size-exclusion chromatography. Thin-Layer chromatography (TLC) Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC). 

Chem. 632 :

Advanced Electroanalytical Chemistry                         (3 Cr. Hr.)

Introduction to electroanalytical chemistry. Direct potentiometric methods. Potentiometric titrations. Electrogravimetric and coulometric methods. Voltammetric methods : Linear-scan voltammetry and polarography. Modefied voltammetric methods : Normal and differential pulse polarography, Rapid voltage scan and cyclic voltammetry. Stripping analysis.Amperometry and biamperometry. 

Chem. 633 :

Atomic Spectrometric Methods of Analysis                (3 Cr. Hr.)

Theory of atomic spectroscopy. Atomic spectroscopy based upon flame and electrothermal atomization. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS). Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (AES). Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy (AFS). Emission spectroscopy based upon plasma atomization : Inductively Coupled argon Plasma (ICP) and Direct Current argon Plasma (DCP) spectroscopy. Atomic spectroscopy as detectors in FIA, in non-aqueous systems, and recent applications. 

Chem. 634 : Flow Analysis                                              (3 Cr. Hr.)

Automatic analyses. Discrete and continuous analytical systems. Air segmented flow methods. Flow injection analysis (FIA). Instrumentation (injectors, detectors,...). Principles of FIA. Limited and medium dispersion methods. Stopped flow methods. Separations in FIA (dialysis and extraction). Flow injection titrations. Applications of FIA. 

Chemistry 641 :

Molecular Structure and Spectroscopy                         (3 Cr. Hr.)

Atoms and molecules, bonding theories, electronic spectra, micro and macro molecules, I.R., raman, micro-wave and N.M.R. spectroscopy, study of the excited state phenomena.

Chemistry 642 : Chemical Kinetics                                (3 Cr. Hr.)

Empirical Rate Laws for homogeneous gas phase Rxn, Reaction Mechanism and Rate Laws, Measurements of rate of reactions, Kinetic theory of gases, Theories of elementary Reactions collision theory of bimolecular and unimolecular reactions, Reactions in solutions, Chain Reactions and Photochemical Reactions.

Chemistry 643 : Advanced Electrochemistry               (3 Cr. Hr.)