Learn about the world at the molecular level by exploring chemical structure and bonding from a quantum mechanical perspective. Topics include wave-particle duality, electronic structure of atoms, chemical bonding models, and intermolecular interactions.
Learn about the world at the molecular level by exploring chemical structure and bonding from a quantum mechanical perspective. Topics include wave-particle duality, electronic structure of atoms, chemical bonding models, and intermolecular interactions.
Chemistry is the study of the properties, structure, behavior, and reactivity of matter. As the central science, chemistry has connections across a wide range of disciplines from physics and biology to environmental science and nano-science. A fundamental understanding of chemistry is the basis on which cutting-edge research in many fields rests.
High School Chemistry (Module 0 provides background information); Pre-Calculus-Level Mathematics; 5.01x is a perquisite for 5.02x
Sylvia T. Ceyer is the J. C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry and former Head of the MIT Department of Chemistry. She received her B.A. degree in chemistry from Hope College, Holland, MI and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the MIT faculty in 1981 and has taught classes in first year chemistry, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, kinetics, solid state chemistry and reaction dynamics. At MIT, she has been awarded the A. Smith Award for Meaningful Contributions and Devotion to Undergraduate Student Life and Learning, the MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, the School of Science Teaching Prize, and the Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Her research interests are centered on reaction dynamics at material surfaces that serve either as catalysts, as templates for nanosystems, or as devices. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. Her numerous awards and honors include the J. Willard Gibbs Medal of the American Chemical Society, the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (with A. D. Johnson) from the American Chemical Society, and the Hope College Distinguished Alumni Award
Mei Hong is Professor of Chemistry at MIT. She received her B.A. in Chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Hong joined the MIT faculty in 2014, and has since taught general chemistry, undergraduate physical chemistry, and graduate-level spectroscopy. Hong’s research centers on the development and application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the structure, dynamics and mechanism of action of biological macromolecules. In particular, she studies virus membrane proteins and human amyloid proteins. Hong is an author of over 200 publications and has received a number of awards, including the Pure Chemistry award and the Nakanishi Prize from the American Chemical Society.
Patti Christie has been a lecturer in the Experimental Study Group (ESG) at MIT for over 22 years, where she teaches both Chemistry and Biology classes along with numerous seminars. She has also been involved in the MIT Chemistry Department General Chemistry courses. Patti enjoys developing new chemistry content through video and active learning exercises. Patti earned two HBSc. degrees from Lakehead University, one in Chemistry and one in Biology. After completing her Ph.D. in the Chemistry Department at MIT, she followed it up with a Post Doc in the MIT Biology Department. She has developed MIT OpenCourseWare scholar classes, the chemistry curriculum for a new university, the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), and is currently working on online learning through MITx and edX.
Alisa Krishtal earned her PhD in 2009 from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Antwerp. Her research interests lie in Theoretical Chemistry and Electronic Structure Methods. In 2012, she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship for improving the description of van der Waals interactions in Density Functional Theory. In 2016, Alisa turned to a full-time teaching career as a Lecturer at New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she taught General and Physical Chemistry and was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award. Alisa Krishtal joined the Department of Chemistry at MIT in 2019, where she has taught Chemical Biology as well as Physical Chemistry.