Chemical Reactivity

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This course focuses on the following topics: Organic functional groups and organic structure. NMR and IR spectroscopic analysis. Conformational analysis. Stereochemistry: configurational isomerism and R/S descriptors. Introduction to Kinetic and Thermodynamic principles of reaction. Acid/Base: proton transfer, pKa, and acidity. Common themes in organic mechanisms of reaction: electrophile, nucleophile, organic reagents. Kinetics of SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. Nucleophilic addition and nucleophilic elimination. Carbocation rearrangement. Experimental Laboratory: laboratory techniques in organic chemistry, including chromatography, extraction, polarimetry. prereq: C- or better in 1331