Organic Chemistry I

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This is the first-semester course of a two-semester organic chemistry sequence. Students draw molecular orbitals and discuss bonding within molecules; name and write structures and reaction products for alkanes and radicals; discuss and distinguish stereoisomers; write the products of substitution and elimination reactions; perform laboratory techniques for the preparation, separation, purification, and characterization of organic compounds; and operate the NMR, FT-IR, GC-MS, and UV-VIS instruments. Prerequisite: Completion of CHEM 1030.