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To have students successfully carry out quantum mechanics calculations in order to study the structure of molecules and mechanisms in chemical reactions. This course seeks to familiarize students with the computer software most commonly used today by researchers. Course content will include: molecular orbital methods, the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan theory , calculation with small molecules such as water, methane, ammonia, etc., energy calculations in larger molecules, organic molecules with 10-20 carbon atoms, heteroatoms, the theory of potential energy surface, optimization of geometries, recovery of nuclear movement in light of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, vibrational analysis, supermolecules and chemical reactivity, the transition state theory, the study of reaction mechanisms using quantum mechanical methods, CI and DFT methods.

This course offers basic principles and a study of the primary metabolites involved in cellular biochemical processes. Students will carry out practices to illustrate such things as analytical separation methods in applied to biochemical problems, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography, characterization methods, protein and DNA electrophoresis, quantitative analysis methods, spectrophotometry, radioimmunometric techniques, and flow cytometry.

This course seeks to foster an interest in the study of natural products of vegetable origin, providing students with the necessary information to comprehend the extraction, purification, and identification processes of primary and secondary metabolites in plants, and to relate the chemical structure of diverse compounds and their biological activity. The methodology used allows students to determine the composition of several of these compounds and their possible biosynthetic routes.

To have students successfully interpret IR, UV, and VIS molecule spectra using basic quantum mechanics methods. Course topics include: selected basics of quantum mechanics, UV and VIS spectra of simple atoms (H and He), IR spectra of simple molecules the vibration and rotation model, graduating from two atom molecules to more complex molecules, spectroscopy and chemical reactions, aspects of symmetry, group theory, reducible and irreducible representations, UV and VIS molecule spectra, the Frank-Condon principle, Fluorescence spectroscopy, lifetime of excited states, Raman spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, high temporal or spectral resolution.

Addressed specifically to biological science students, this course presents an ample vision of concepts and applications of chemistry from the perspective of its physical fundamentals. Metabolic processes constitute the paradigm of applications of thermodynamics regarding energy conversions, which through coupled chemical reactions keep systems away from balance, becoming thus the support of life. It also studies quantitative models of transportation of matter and energy and of chemical kinetics. Maintaining a non-specialist level, in physical aspects of interaction phenomena between energy and matter, it also studies basic elements of these interactions, through quantum mechanics, statistics and spectroscopic methods.

Programmed practices cover aspects related to manipulation of instruments to measure physical properties, as well as the use of calculations tools that enable simple simulations, which show the variation of certain parameters according to variables defined through phenomena relations through theoretical postulates. These practical activities cover most of the issues described in the theory course.

To have students successfully carry out quantum mechanics calculations in order to study the structure of molecules and mechanisms in chemical reactions. This course seeks to familiarize students with the computer software most commonly used today by researchers. Course content will include: molecular orbital methods, the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan theory , calculation with small molecules such as water, methane, ammonia, etc., energy calculations in larger molecules, organic molecules with 10-20 carbon atoms, heteroatoms, the theory of potential energy surface, optimization of geometries, recovery of nuclear movement in light of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, vibrational analysis, supermolecules and chemical reactivity, the transition state theory, the study of reaction mechanisms using quantum mechanical methods, CI and DFT methods.

This course students are introduced to the principles of Quantum Theory. These should help in understanding contemporary atomic and molecular structure and chemical reactivity theories. Following this, students are presented the hydrogen atom and multielectronic atom theories, so that they may assimilate basic concepts and understand the different approaches taken in the practical use of these concepts. Students will also learn to calculate the fundamental properties of molecules according to quantum theory, explore ideas regarding chemical bonds and molecular structure, and the main approaches in this area.

This course offers basic principles and a study of the primary metabolites involved in cellular biochemical processes. Students will carry out practices to illustrate such things as analytical separation methods in applied to biochemical problems, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography, characterization methods, protein and DNA electrophoresis, quantitative analysis methods, spectrophotometry, radioimmunometric techniques, and flow cytometry.

This course seeks to foster an interest in the study of natural products of vegetable origin, providing students with the necessary information to comprehend the extraction, purification, and identification processes of primary and secondary metabolites in plants, and to relate the chemical structure of diverse compounds and their biological activity. The methodology used allows students to determine the composition of several of these compounds and their possible biosynthetic routes.

To have students successfully interpret IR, UV, and VIS molecule spectra using basic quantum mechanics methods. Course topics include: selected basics of quantum mechanics, UV and VIS spectra of simple atoms (H and He), IR spectra of simple molecules the vibration and rotation model, graduating from two atom molecules to more complex molecules, spectroscopy and chemical reactions, aspects of symmetry, group theory, reducible and irreducible representations, UV and VIS molecule spectra, the Frank-Condon principle, Fluorescence spectroscopy, lifetime of excited states, Raman spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, high temporal or spectral resolution.

To have students successfully carry out quantum mechanics calculations in order to study the structure of molecules and mechanisms in chemical reactions. This course seeks to familiarize students with the computer software most commonly used today by researchers. Course content will include: molecular orbital methods, the Hartree-Fock-Roothaan theory , calculation with small molecules such as water, methane, ammonia, etc., energy calculations in larger molecules, organic molecules with 10-20 carbon atoms, heteroatoms, the theory of potential energy surface, optimization of geometries, recovery of nuclear movement in light of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, vibrational analysis, supermolecules and chemical reactivity, the transition state theory, the study of reaction mechanisms using quantum mechanical methods, CI and DFT methods.

This course students are introduced to the principles of Quantum Theory. These should help in understanding contemporary atomic and molecular structure and chemical reactivity theories. Following this, students are presented the hydrogen atom and multielectronic atom theories, so that they may assimilate basic concepts and understand the different approaches taken in the practical use of these concepts. Students will also learn to calculate the fundamental properties of molecules according to quantum theory, explore ideas regarding chemical bonds and molecular structure, and the main approaches in this area.