Chemistry 171 is an undergraduate inorganic upper-division course taught primarily to Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials Science majors. The course covers fundamentals of structure, bonding and properties of inorganic solids, transition metal and main group compounds. Special topics include spectroscopy, bioinorganic, medicinal and materials chemistry.
Click on the following link to see Winter 2015 final grade distribution and student evaluations.
Click on the following link to see Winter 2016 final grade distribution and student evaluations.
A major emphasis in the class is made to highlight how interdisciplinary the field of inorganic chemistry has been and remains so currently. This point is also showcased by the relevance of the solutions inorganic chemistry has provided over the past 300 years to solving major societal challenges related to issues such as water purification, fertilizer development, energy storage, production of fuels, electronic materials and medical treatments and diagnostics. In order engage students in thinking about the broader implications of the field, they are offered to complete several independent team-based assignments. These include a Project Wiki contribution and an Inorganic Scavenger Hunt project.
The First Annual Inorganic Scavenger Hunt took place in Winter 2015, where UCLA undergraduate students enrolled in Chemistry 171 had an opportunity to identify a location, items or individual(s) related to inorganic chemistry and create a short documentary video describing their quest and findings.
Click on the following link to see Winter 2015 final grade distribution and student evaluations.
Click on the following link to see Winter 2016 final grade distribution and student evaluations.
A major emphasis in the class is made to highlight how interdisciplinary the field of inorganic chemistry has been and remains so currently. This point is also showcased by the relevance of the solutions inorganic chemistry has provided over the past 300 years to solving major societal challenges related to issues such as water purification, fertilizer development, energy storage, production of fuels, electronic materials and medical treatments and diagnostics. In order engage students in thinking about the broader implications of the field, they are offered to complete several independent team-based assignments. These include a Project Wiki contribution and an Inorganic Scavenger Hunt project.
The First Annual Inorganic Scavenger Hunt took place in Winter 2015, where UCLA undergraduate students enrolled in Chemistry 171 had an opportunity to identify a location, items or individual(s) related to inorganic chemistry and create a short documentary video describing their quest and findings.
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Featured Videos from 2015
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Featured Videos from 2015
Other Submitted 2015 Scavenger Hunt Videos:
| Home-Made Battery | Inorganic Chemistry in Dentistry |
| Interview with a Radiologist | Chemicals in Photography | | Interview with a Dentist | Materials used in Dentistry | |"Under the Tread" | Catalytic Converter Chemistry | |Dental Radiology | Chemicals in Wine | Hinkley | | Dentistry and Inorganic Chemistry | Chemistry in Radiology | |Dental Amalgams | Homemade Battery | Potato Battery | | Porous Materials | California Winery | |
Project Wiki. Working in a team, students were asked to identify a topic related to inorganic chemistry that is currently missing from Wikipedia and subsequently write an original article on this subject. Articles were subsequently subjected to in-class peer-review and several edits. This project is done in a collaboration with Wiki Education Foundation (http://wikiedu.org).The list of the Winter 2015 articles can be found below (articles denoted as pending are in the process of being approved by the Wikipedia editors):
Lead Bismuthate by Sima Akhavan, Zakir Ali, Nicole Andrews and Terrence Sun
Silicon-Germanium Thermoelectrics in Space Exploration by Y. Asfaw, Parker Beatty, Ching Chan and C. Chatsirivichaikul
Lithium Hybrid Organic Battery by Tsai Cheah, Emily Duong, Mania Gharibian and Jeffrey Hong
Dodecaborate by Nhan Dinh, Angela Huang, Shaunt Kevork, Carmen Lau, Oriana Leekam
Carborane Super Acids by Jocelyn Lopez, Loi Lu, Teresa Lu, and Steven Kezian
Iron-Platinum Nanoparticles by Parham Peyda, Erika Phung, Britany Reddish, Qingbai Xu, Jin Yoon
Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles by Vietsimon Tran, Pei-Yun Tseng, Brandon Tu, Katie Villabroza
Two-Dimensional Semiconductors by Jennifer Ngo, Chris Wang, Shiyao Wang, Ben Wu and Ying Zhu
Cu Y Zeolites by Zayd Alashini, Ricardo Ayavar, Rajana Bansal, Gabriel Cerecedes and Candy Delgado
Oxyselenides by Hannah Bersabe, Alejandra Gonzalez, Jigar Gor, Joshua Jeong and Ji Yeon Joo
Mercury Nano Trap Water Filtration by Balbir Kaur, Jaewon Kwag, Jon Kwon and Ji Hye Lee
Polymer Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Joseph Leong, Gesarae Mila and Thien Nguyen
Industrial Dye Degradation by Xiaoyang Quan, Michael Stone, Johnny Trinh and Aleric Wang
Gold Clusters by Sasha Demers, Yipin Wu, Bernice Lin and Michael Liao
Helium Cryogenics by Riley Fricke, Harpunit Sindhar, Kory DiGrande, Andrew Amezola
DNA-Binding Metallo-Intercalators by Alice Wong, Jonathan Hoech, Kevin Pepaoli and Anh Hoang
Graphene Application as Optical Lenses by Alex Aronson, Syed Quadri, Julian Nguyen and Allen Wu
Hydrogen Spillover by Randy Lin, Tu Lau, Jeanette Hernandez and Stephen Leicht
Carbon Peapods by Erin Soriano, Yu Lin, Lilly Qiu, Yanwu Shao, Mai Nguyen
Bio-Based Field Effect Transistors (FETs) by Sadegh Atlasi, Arshia Ashjaei, Huijun An and Yanbo Ren
Superoxide Dismutase Mimetics by Daniel Mosallaei, Tin Tran, Kenvin Nguyen and Azin Saebi
Diamond Nanoparticles by Stacy Lee, Melody Yuan and Joshua Lu
Titanate Nanosheets by Ekaterina Titarenko, Layne Haber, Chaoya Han, Jason Li and Daniel Vincent
Gold Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery by Sylvia Chow, Moonsun Choi, Gretchen Guaglione and Alyssa Gaiser
Selected List of the Winter 2016 articles can be found below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum-based_antineoplastic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_nanoparticles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenium_anti-cancer_drugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-FET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubosome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallogels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky_junction_solar_cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_isotopes_of_superheavy_elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaloTag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypobromous_acid
Silicon-Germanium Thermoelectrics in Space Exploration by Y. Asfaw, Parker Beatty, Ching Chan and C. Chatsirivichaikul
Lithium Hybrid Organic Battery by Tsai Cheah, Emily Duong, Mania Gharibian and Jeffrey Hong
Dodecaborate by Nhan Dinh, Angela Huang, Shaunt Kevork, Carmen Lau, Oriana Leekam
Carborane Super Acids by Jocelyn Lopez, Loi Lu, Teresa Lu, and Steven Kezian
Iron-Platinum Nanoparticles by Parham Peyda, Erika Phung, Britany Reddish, Qingbai Xu, Jin Yoon
Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles by Vietsimon Tran, Pei-Yun Tseng, Brandon Tu, Katie Villabroza
Two-Dimensional Semiconductors by Jennifer Ngo, Chris Wang, Shiyao Wang, Ben Wu and Ying Zhu
Cu Y Zeolites by Zayd Alashini, Ricardo Ayavar, Rajana Bansal, Gabriel Cerecedes and Candy Delgado
Oxyselenides by Hannah Bersabe, Alejandra Gonzalez, Jigar Gor, Joshua Jeong and Ji Yeon Joo
Mercury Nano Trap Water Filtration by Balbir Kaur, Jaewon Kwag, Jon Kwon and Ji Hye Lee
Polymer Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Joseph Leong, Gesarae Mila and Thien Nguyen
Industrial Dye Degradation by Xiaoyang Quan, Michael Stone, Johnny Trinh and Aleric Wang
Gold Clusters by Sasha Demers, Yipin Wu, Bernice Lin and Michael Liao
Helium Cryogenics by Riley Fricke, Harpunit Sindhar, Kory DiGrande, Andrew Amezola
DNA-Binding Metallo-Intercalators by Alice Wong, Jonathan Hoech, Kevin Pepaoli and Anh Hoang
Graphene Application as Optical Lenses by Alex Aronson, Syed Quadri, Julian Nguyen and Allen Wu
Hydrogen Spillover by Randy Lin, Tu Lau, Jeanette Hernandez and Stephen Leicht
Carbon Peapods by Erin Soriano, Yu Lin, Lilly Qiu, Yanwu Shao, Mai Nguyen
Bio-Based Field Effect Transistors (FETs) by Sadegh Atlasi, Arshia Ashjaei, Huijun An and Yanbo Ren
Superoxide Dismutase Mimetics by Daniel Mosallaei, Tin Tran, Kenvin Nguyen and Azin Saebi
Diamond Nanoparticles by Stacy Lee, Melody Yuan and Joshua Lu
Titanate Nanosheets by Ekaterina Titarenko, Layne Haber, Chaoya Han, Jason Li and Daniel Vincent
Gold Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery by Sylvia Chow, Moonsun Choi, Gretchen Guaglione and Alyssa Gaiser
Selected List of the Winter 2016 articles can be found below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum-based_antineoplastic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_nanoparticles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenium_anti-cancer_drugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-FET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubosome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallogels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schottky_junction_solar_cell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_isotopes_of_superheavy_elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HaloTag
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypobromous_acid