Chemistry (CHEM)
  Department of Chemistry
Faculty of Science
  CHEM 4407 [0.5 credit]
  Polymer Modeling
  Polymer architectures; Flexible and rigid rod polymers; Rotational isomeric states (RIS); Molecular mechanics, Ramachandran Map, Helix parameters; internal and external parameters; regular and random coil structures; molecular dynamics; calculation of end-to-end distance, NMR chemical shifts; conformational entropy and properties.
  Prerequisite: 
MATH 1107 and 
CHEM 2204 or permission of the department.
  Lectures three hours per week.