MIT OpenCourseWare | Chemistry | 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2008 | Home

MIT OpenCourseWare | Chemistry | 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2008 | Home: This course provides an introduction to the chemistry of biological, inorganic, and organic molecules. The emphasis is on basic principles of atomic and molecular electronic structure, thermodynamics, acid-base and redox equilibria, chemical kinetics, and catalysis. In an effort to illuminate connections between chemistry and biology, a list of the biology-, medicine-, and MIT research-related examples used in 5.111 is provided in Biology-Related Examples.