General principles of organic chemistry with emphasis on reactivity and synthesis. Topics include bonding, structure and properties of organic compounds, stereochemistry, overview of organic reactions, kinetics and thermodynamics, structure, synthesis, and reaction of alkenes, alkynes, and alkyl halides, nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions, structure determination using Mass Spectrometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, aromaticity, and electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions.
Concurrent enrollment in CHM 235L is required.
Prerequisites
CHM 152 with a grade of “C” or higher
Student Learning Outcomes
- Draw valid atomic and molecular structures, describe bonding, and apply acid-base chemistry in the solving of problems.
- Draw valid structures and predict properties of organic molecules.
- Draw the structure and identify the stereochemistry of basic alkanes.
- Apply the concepts of kinetics and thermodynamics to describe mechanisms.
- Use three-dimensional structures of molecules to discriminate between molecules with subtle stereochemical differences.
- Describe the physical properties and predict basic reactions of alkyl halides.
- Describe the physical properties, predict basic reactions, and analyze the synthesis of alkenes.
- Predict mechanisms of alkene reactions.
- Describe the physical properties, synthesis, and reactions of alkynes.
- Determine the structure of organic compounds using Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR) and
- Mass Spectrometry (MS).
- Describe the unique properties of conjugated systems and methods used to detect them (UV spectroscopy).
- Describe the physical properties, synthesis, and reactions of aromatic compounds.