After completing this course, students will have a basic competence in the following:
• Understand the fundamental chemical properties that govern: bonding, structure, and
reactivity of organic molecules.
• Have an grasp of the fundamental reaction mechanisms required to understand and predict
the reactivity of organic (bio)molecules.
• Have a basic chemical understanding of biomolecules such as carbohydrates,
polysaccharides, amino acids, proteins; including their structure and chemical properties.
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Class schedule:
1 Structure and Bonding in Organic Molecules (electronconfiguration, orbitals, hybridization) Chapter 1
2 Covalent Bonding and Polarity (electronegativity, dipole moments, formal charge, resonance structures, acids and bases) Chapter 2
3 Introduction to Organic Compounds: Alkanes & Stereochemistry Chapter 3
4 Cycloalkanes (ring strain and stability, conformational analysis) Chapter 4
5 Stereochemistry (the tetrahedral nature of carbon, enantiomers, racemic mixtures, diastereomers) Chapter 5
6 Mid-Term Exam: 20% of final grade (Chapters 1-5) -
7 Review of Mid-Term Exam -
8 An Overview of Organic Reactions (additions, eliminations, substitutions, mechanisms, equilibria, and energetics) Chapter 6
9 Alkenes (nomenclature, elimination reactions, addition reactions: halogenation, hydration) Chapters 7 & 8
10+11 Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions (alkyl halides, SN1 and SN2 substitutions, E1 and E2 eliminations) Chapter 11
12+13 General introduction to biomolecules (carbohydrates, polysaccharides, lipids, amino acids, peptides/proteins) Chapters 25-27
14 Review for Final Exam
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