375:522 Environmental Organic Chemistry
Instructor:      Lisa A. Rodenburg (formerly Totten)    Rm 348; 932-9800 x 6218; rodenburg@envsci.rutgers.edu

Spring Semester 2008; Time  Tuesday/Friday 10:55-12:15 PM, 323 ENRS Building

Grading:  Participation; Problem sets; Class project; Midterm; Final Exam

Text:  Environmental Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed.  R. Schwarzenbach, P. Gschwend, and D. Imboden, Wiley-Interscience, 2002.

Description:  Processes governing the transport and transformation of anthropogenic organic chemicals in the environment.  Topics include chemical-physical properties of organic chemicals, air-water and air-land exchange, atmospheric processes and deposition, sorption processes, bioaccumulation, chemical transformations, photochemical transformations, modeling concepts, case studies.

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Tentative Dates Jan 22 Jan 25 Jan 29 Feb 1, 5 Feb 8, 12 Feb 15, 19, 22 Feb 26 Mar 4 Feb 29, Mar 4, 7 Mar 11 Mar 14 Mar 18, 21 Mar 25 Mar 28, April 1 Apr 4 Apr 8 Apr 11 Apr 15 Apr 18 Apr 22 Apr 25, 29, May 2 May ??

Lectures Introduction  Thermodynamics  Vapor Pressure Solubility Henry's Law Octanol-Water Partitioning Organic Acids and Bases Hand out midterm Sorption (Chapter 9) Hand in midterm Go Over Midterm Spring Break Fugacity models Transformation Reactions Hydrolysis Redox reactions Photolysis Transport and A/W exchange Gas/Particle Partitioning Atmospheric Deposition Class presentations Final Exam

Practice Problems       CH 4 CH 5 problem 6-3 problem 7-3 problem 8-1 2004 midterm       solution Problem 9-1      MIDTERM Problem 12-1      Lisa's HW         2004 Final solution

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