Organic Chemistry I

Catalog description

The first semester of a one-year course in organic chemistry designed for students planning professional school studies in health and life sciences. Lecture includes a rigorous, in-depth presentation of basic principles with emphasis on reaction mechanisms, multi-step synthesis and retrosynthetic analysis, stereochemistry and spectroscopy and preparation and reactions of nonaromatic hydrocarbons, haloalkanes, reactions of alkenes and alkynes, alcohols, ethers and organometallic compounds. Reactions include SN1, SN2, E1 and E2. The laboratory work reinforces topics covered in lecture and includes preparation, isolation, purification and characterization of Organic compounds. Traditional techniques including melting point, recrystallization, extraction, distillation, and chromatography (TLC, Column, GC) will be used. Additional analysis of synthesis products will employ FT-IR, and/or NMR. Prerequisite: CHEM-1A and CHEM-1B.