CHEM 171

Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Chemical bonding; structure and bonding in solid state; main group, transition metal, lanthanide and actinide compounds and reactions; catalysis, spectroscopy, special topics.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 30B with grade of C– or better.

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grade C- or better in

CHEM 30B

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

CHEM 171

CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
- CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity
  - CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change6 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 3 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

CHEM 171

CHEM C172Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM C174Inorganic and Metalorganic Laboratory Methods
CHEM C179Biological Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM C185Materials Chemistry Laboratory
CHEM 267Nanoscience and Chemistry
CHEM C272