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Course Info for CHE241 - Organic Chem I

 This course is the first semester of a two-semester sequence of basic organic chemistry covering saturated, unsaturated and aromatic hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, their reactions, structure, reaction mechanisms, stereochemistry, mass spectrometry, and spectroscopy.  There are three hours of lecture and one two-hour laboratory per week.

PREREQUISITE: 

CHE112 - General Chemistry II or its equivalent

 REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:
  1. Organic Chemistry, 8th edition; Solomons and Fryle. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

ISBN# 0-471-41799-8. 

  1. Study Guide and Solution Manual Organic Chemistry, 8th edition; Solomons and Fryle. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

      ISBN# 0-471-21507-4. 

 REQUIRED MATERIALS:  

  1. Safety glasses are required for all on-campus sections.
  2. Molecular model kit (or CD from CHE 112 - Kotz)

 As the result of instructional activities, students will be able to:

  1. identify hybridization, use VSEPR, calculate formal charge, and draw chemical structures
  2. name organic compounds using IUPAC
  3. identify functional groups & recognize isomers
  4. identify reaction types and polar reaction mechanisms
  5. identify nucleophilic and electrophilic centers
  6. calculate degrees of unsaturation and predict carbocation stability and rearrangements
  7. determine HX and halogens to alkenes and alkynes
  8. determine R,S sequence in organic molecules
  9. identify, draw the structure of, and synthesis alkyl halides
  10. distinguish SN2 reactions, substation and elimination reaction
  11. interpret NMR, IR, MS & UV spectroscopy
  12. identify aromaticity, nucleophilic & electrophilic aromatic substitution
  13. identify alcohols, Grignard reactions, and acid based dehydration

GENERAL TOPICS OUTLINE:

  1. Carbon Compounds & Chemical Bonds
  2. Functional Groups; Intermolecular Forces & Infrared Spectroscopy
  3. Organic Reactions: Acids & Bases
  4. Alkanes: Nomenclature, Conformational Analysis & Synthesis
  5. Stereochemistry; Chiral Molecules
  6. Ionic Reactions - Nucleophilic Substitution & Elimination of Alkyl Halides
  7. Alkenes & Alkynes I: Synthesis and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides
  8. Alkenes & Alkynes II: Addition Reactions
  9. MS, NMR & IR Spectroscopy: Tools for Structural Determination
Feel free to contact a member of the Science Department or the Science Department Chair.



 

 

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