BIOENGR C107
Polymer Chemistry for Bioengineers
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course C104 or C105. Fundamental concepts of polymer synthesis, including step-growth, chain growth (ionic, radical, metal catalyzed), and ring-opening, with focus on factors that can be used to control chain length, chain length distribution, and chain-end functionality, chain copolymerization, and stereochemistry in polymerizations. Presentation of applications of use of different polymerization techniques. Concepts of step-growth, chain-growth, ring-opening, and coordination polymerization, and effects of synthesis route on polymer properties. Lectures include both theory and practical issues demonstrated through examples. Concurrently scheduled with course C207. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2023 - I found the class a little more dry than C105. Less about getting deep into organic chemistry and more about learning a wide range of polymers, how you make them, and how you use them. A lot of pieces of information that don't individually seem that important. Almost failed out of it after the first midterm.
Winter 2023 - I found the class a little more dry than C105. Less about getting deep into organic chemistry and more about learning a wide range of polymers, how you make them, and how you use them. A lot of pieces of information that don't individually seem that important. Almost failed out of it after the first midterm.
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