This is the second 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 II Hon
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CHEM 2212, CHEM 2412
Prerequisite
(CHEM 2211 or CHEM 2311H or CHEM 2411) and permission of Honors
Corequisite
CHEM 2312L
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
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. Mass Spectrometry of Organic Molecules
II. Identification of Compounds by Infrared Absorption Spectrometry
III. Structural Determination via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry
IV. Conjugated Dienes
a. electronic structure
b. UV-visible spectrometry
c. reactions
V. Annulenes and Aromaticity
VI. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
VII. Alcohols and Phenols
a. preparation
b. reactions
c. acid behavior
VIII. Properties and Reactions of Ethers, Epoxides, Thiols, and Sulfides
IX. Aldehydes and Ketones
a. properties
b. preparation
c. nucleophilic substitution reactions
X. Carboxylic Acids and Nitriles
a. acid character
b. reactions
c. hydrolysis of nitriles
XI. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives (Amides, Acid Chlorides, Esters, Anhydrides)
