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Dr. Jeremy Kua Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Office: SCST 381 e-mail Address:  | 
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Dr. Jeremy Kua Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Office: SCST 381 e-mail Address: |
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Courses Taught in Fall 2025
CHEM151: General Chemistry I
CHEM331: Biochemistry I
Students, course web pages will be accessible on
Canvas about a week before classses begin.
Sample Course Web Pages from Previous Years
What is computational chemistry? Look at some of the Introduction links in my Resources for Computational Chemistry page.
What is self-assembly? Here's what Wikipedia says. See some nice pictures and descriptions of self-assembly in the kitchen and more.
Current/potential projects for 2025-26
Interested in working on a research project in computational chemistry?
Come by my office and talk to me. [Potential credit for Chem 496 during the semester;
funding available during the summer.]
Current external grant: NASA Exobiology (2024-2026)
At present, the predominant activity of the Kua research group is the construction of Free Energy Maps for prebiotic (origin-of-life) chemistry.
In particular, we are interested in:
1. Generating baseline maps for reactions of small molecules involved in prebiotic chemistry.
2. Studying how environmental changes (pH, concentration, temperature, presence of ions in solution) away from standard conditions perturb the free energies.
3. Developing useful measures of molecular complexity.
4. Analyzing the genesis and sustainability of autocatalytic cycles in proto-metabolic systems.
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Computational Research Experience (i.e., projects I've worked on throughout my career)
A Few Interesting Science Links