Fundamental Chemical Principles

Catalog description

This course covers general and organic chemistry topics to build a strong foundation for more advanced chemistry or biology courses. Students will become familiar with oxidation-reduction, equilibria, reaction rates, acid-base reactions, and nuclear chemistry. The structures and reactions of alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids, and carboxylic acid derivatives will also be introduced. Emphasis will be placed on the curved arrow mechanisms for each reaction. This course requires algebraic manipulations, graphical interpretation, and chemical problem solving and as such PHYL 1200 /1600, PHYL 2100 and a Quantitative Reasoning course are all required pre-requisites.