Chemistry and It's Application to Healthcare

Chapter 1: Introduction to Chemistry 
1.1      Why chemistry?
1.2      Chemistry and the human body
1.3      Connecting chemistry and Its Application to Health Care

Chapter 2: Measurements, Precision, and Accuracy
2.1      Precision and accuracy
2.2      Measurements and significant figures
2.3      Dosages
2.4      Conversions in measurement
2.5      Density
2.6      Data collection in health care
2.7      Health care and dosage safety

Chapter 3: Elements and the Periodic Table
3.1       Construction of the table, protons, neutrons, and electrons
3.2       Dalton’s atomic theory
3.3       Sections of the Periodic Table
3.4       Repeating patterns and properties of matter and the Periodic Table
3.5       Elements and medical uses

Chapter 4: Compounds and Nomenclature
4.1       Introduction
4.2       Naming compounds
4.3       Metal – non-metal compounds
4.4       The transition metals and inner transition metals, with non-metals
4.5       Non-metal–non-metal compounds, molecular compounds
4.6       Nomenclature and polyatomic ions
4.7       Nomenclature for acids and bases
4.8       Mixtures
4.9       Medicinal Nomenclature

Chapter 5: Chemical Equations, Reactions, and the Mole
5.1       Reactants, products, and balanced reactions
5.2       The mole, determining moles from grams and the reverse
5.3       Using reactions to do molar conversions
5.4       Determining percent yield, how much actually forms
5.5       Limiting Reactant, what runs out first
5.6       Molarity

Chapter 6: Acids and Bases
6.1       Acids and Bases, Introduction
6.2       Proton donors and acceptors, Electron pair donors and acceptors
6.3       Neutralization reactions
6.4       The concept of pH
6.5       Acid-Base Equilibria
6.6       Buffers

Chapter 7: States of Matter and Gas Laws
7.1       Solids and liquids 
7.2       Gases
7.3       The Four Gas Laws
            7.3.1 Boyle’s Law. 
            7.3.2. Charles’ Law
            7.3.3. Gay-Lussac’s Law
            7.3.4. the Combined gas laws.
7.4       The Ideal Gas Law
7.5       Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures
7.6       Henry's Law

Chapter 8: Bonding
8.1       Ionic bonds
8.2       Covalent bonds
8.3       Lewis structures, hydrocarbons
8.4       Lewis structures, double and triple bonds, aromatic molecules
8.5       Aromatic hydrocarbons
8.6       Examples of chemical bonding in the body 

Chapter 9: Organic Chemistry, Functional Groups and Chirality
9.1       Oxygen-containing functional groups
9.2       Nitrogen-containing functional groups
9.3       Phosphorous-containing functional groups
9.4       Chirality
9.5       Summary of organic functional groups

Chapter 10: Lipids
10.1     Fatty acids, basics
10.2     Triglyceride molecules
10.3     Types of lipids in cells
10.4     Steroids, cholesterol
10.5     Lipids and cell membranes

Chapter 11: Carbohydrates
11.1     Carbohydrates, overview and introduction
11.2     Monosaccharides
11.3     Disaccharides
11.4     Larger polysaccharides: starch, cellulose, and glycogen
11.5     Carbohydrates in the body

Chapter 12: Amino Acids and Proteins
12.1     Proteins, introduction
12.2     Amino acids and the peptide bond
12.3     Polypeptides to proteins
12.4     Enzymes

Chapter 13: Nucleic Acids, DNA and RNA
13.1     Introduction
13.2     Nucleic acids, what they are composed of
13.3     DNA
13.4     RNA
13.5     Protein synthesis
13.6     Mutations
13.7     Genetics and genetic diseases
13.8     Viruses

Chapter 14: Metabolism and Metabolic Pathways
14.1     Energy involved in metabolism
14.2     Carbohydrate catabolism
14.3     Fatty acid catabolism
14.4     Protein catabolism
14.5     Oxidative phosphorylation
14.6     Metabolism/Digestion
14.7      Cystic fibrosis

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