First semester of a two-semester sequence of organic chemistry for honors students covering advanced aspects of nomenclature, structures, and reactions of organic compounds.
Athena Title
Advanced Organic Chem I Hon
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2211, CHEM 2211E, CHEM 2411
Prerequisite
(CHEM 1212-1212D or CHEM 1312H or CHEM 1412) and permission of Honors
Corequisite
CHEM 2311L
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will understand the atomic and molecular basis of organic chemistry.
Students will understand the impact of organic chemistry on the fields of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, biology, and physics and its impact on the global economy.
Students will understand the fundamental principles of molecular structure and shape as they relate to organic molecules and their properties.
Students will understand fundamental acid/base and electrophile/nucleophile reactions in organic chemistry.
Students will be able to identify organic molecules by functional group: alkane, alkene, alkyne, haloalkane, alcohol, thiol, ether, sulfide, amine, aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid, and carboxylic acid derivatives.
Students will understand the chemistry of organic functional groups.
Students will understand organic nomenclature and symbolism.
Students will understand basic principles of valence bond and molecular orbital theory.
Students will understand electron delocalization and its effect on stability and reactivity.
Students will understand reaction mechanisms and electron movement using the curved arrow formalism.
Students will learn the fundamental principles of functional group interconversion and organic synthesis.
Students will understand analytical tools for organic structure determination, including MS, NMR, IR, and UV-Vis.
Topical Outline
I. Structure and Bonding
a. Polar Covalent Bonds
b. Resonance
c. Acids and Bases
II. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
III. Stereochemistry of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
IV. Organic Reactions
a. Thermodynamics
b. Equilibria
c. Kinetics
d. Mechanisms
V. Alkenes
a. Structure and Reactivity
b. Reactions and Synthesis
VI. Alkynes
a. Introduction to Synthesis
VII. Stereochemistry
VIII. Structure Determination
a. Mass Spectrometry
b. Infrared Spectroscopy
c. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
IX. Alkyl Halides
a. Nucleophilic Substitutions
b. Eliminations
c. Resonance Effects
d. Rearrangements
e. Reactions of Alkyl Halides
