Syllabus B5000

Text

Recommended: Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A, by Francis

Carey and Richard Sundberg (4th  Edition Kluwer Academic/Plenum or

Springer Publishers, or 5th Edition Springer, 2007).

Other Materials

The above book is recommended and the instructor will supply any

additional materials as needed. It is likely that some course material will

be from outside the recommended book.

Class

Mon

6.30-8.35 PM, Room MR –1307

Wed

6.30-8.35 PM, Room MR-1307

Course outline

This course will cover the concepts in organic chemistry, necessary to

understand  organic  reaction  mechanisms.   Although  some  of  this

material may be adapted from undergraduate organic chemistry largely

as  a  review,  substantial  additions  to  these  basic  concepts  will  be

introduced.   The  tentative  topics  of  this  course  include: bonding in

carbon  compounds;  stereochemistry  and  isomerism;  conformation,

steric effects and stereoelectronic properties; reaction rates, linear free

energy  relationships  and  isotope  effects;  substitution,  addition  and

elimination reactions; carbanions and other nucleophiles; chemistry of

the carbonyl group; aromaticity and reactions of aromatic compounds;

cycloaddition chemistry; chemistry of free radicals and carbenes.

Models

Darling models (available in bookstore)

Maruzen models:

http://www.maruzen.info/hgs/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=

616

More sophisticated:

http://www.maruzen.info/hgs/catalog/product_info.php?product

s_id=596

Prentice Hall Molecular Model Set for Organic Chemistry

Exams

There will be two midterms, a quizz, and a final exam.  The final exam

Homework

will be comprehensive.

Homework  assignments  will  be  handed  out/assigned  during  the

semester.  These are not graded assignments but students may be called

upon to offer solutions to these problems.

Note

The final exam will be conducted during finals week or by arrangement

with the class.

Course Objectives

Dept

Outcome

Letters

1.

Learn the fundamental principles, such as:

a

•  Bonding in organic compounds

•  Stereochemistry   and   isomerism   in   organic   molecules:

determination and assignment of chirality, steric, electronic,

and   conformational   properties   of   organic   molecules,

stereoselectivity of reactions

•  Fundamental principles of reaction kinetics, linear free energy

relationships, isotope effects

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Nucleophilic substitution

•  Addition and elimination reactions

•  Carbanions and other carbon nucleophiles

•  Aromaticity and reactions of aromatic systems

•

Concerted pericyclic reactions

•  Free radicals and carbenes

2.

Analyze and interpret data as related to the concepts described above.

d, e

3.

Work as part of a problem-solving team or independently as

f

occasioned

4.

Learn to access and utilize chemical information technology.

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Course

Departmental Outcomes

Objective

Numbers

a.

Demonstrate  an  understanding  of  the  fundamental  principles  of

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chemistry,  including  atomic  and  molecular  structure,  quantum

chemistry, chemical bonding, stoichiometry, kinetics and mechanism,

equilibrium,   thermochemistry   and   thermodynamics,   molecular

structure and function, electrochemistry, and the periodic chemical

properties of the elements.

b.

Apply the fundamental principles of chemistry to life sciences, the

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environment,  materials,  engineering,  and  emerging  technological

fields of chemistry, as well as to everyday situations.

c.

Conduct experiments and learn fundamental laboratory skills.

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d.

Analyze and interpret data.

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e.

Apply mathematical concepts to chemical problems.

2

f.

Work as part of a problem-solving team.

3

g.

Convey facts, theories and results about chemistry in written form.

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h.

Use  oral  presentation  to  convey  facts,  theories  and  results  about

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chemistry.

i.

Access and utilize chemical information technology.

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j.

Design and execute scientific research.

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k.

Apply ethical responsibilities and professional conduct.

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