CHEM 184

Chemical Instrumentation

Chemistry and Biochemistry · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Theory and practice of instrumental techniques of chemical and structural analysis, including atomic absorption spectroscopy, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, polarography, X-ray fluorescence, and other modern methods.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

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

Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: courses 30CL and 110A, with grades of C– or better.

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grade C- or better in

all of
- CHEM 30CL
- CHEM 110A

Requires

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

CHEM 184

CHEM 30CLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory II
- CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
  - CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity1 more beneath
- CHEM 30BLOrganic Chemistry Laboratory I
  - CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivityanother path to it

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