CHE 180/185 General Chemistry II with a Lab

Concurrently with CHE 275 Organic Chemistry Lab

Competencies

1.  Identify correct structures of organic compounds and their significant features.

2.   Use organic nomenclature correctly.

3.   Describe the effect of chemical structure on physical properties and chemical reactivity.

4.   Identify common classes of organic reactions and the factors that influence them.

5.   Describe mechanisms of common organic reactions and apply the reactions to organic synthesis.

Outline

I.  Structure and Bonding

A.  Atomic structure and electron configuration

B.  Concepts of ionic and covalent bonding

C.  Formulas, Lewis structure, resonance and formal charges

D.  Hybridization and geometry

E.  Acids and bases (Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, and Lewis)

F.  Functional groups

II.  Alkanes

A.  Structure and nomenclature of acyclic and cyclic alkanes

B.  Physical and chemical properties

C.  Conformations of acyclic alkanes

D.  Conformations of cyclic alkanes

III.  Overview of Organic Reactions

A.  Classes of organic reactions

B.  Applications of concepts from thermodynamics and kinetics

IV.  Alkenes

A.  Structure and nomenclature

B.  Physical and chemical properties

C.  Relative stabilities of alkenes

D.  Preparations

E.  Reactions

F.  Syntheses using alkenes

V.  Alkynes

A.  Structure and nomenclature

B.  Physical and chemical properties

C.  Preparations

D.  Reactions

E.  Syntheses using alkynes

VI.  Stereochemistry

A.  Structure and chirality

B.  Optical activity

C.  Absolute and relative configurations

D.  Structural formulas and projections

E.  Stereoisomerism

F.  Stereochemistry of reactions

VII.  Organohalides

A.  Structure and nomenclature

B.  Physical and chemical properties

C.  Preparations

D.  Substitution and elimination reactions

E.  Additional reactions

VIII.  Spectroscopy

A.  Mass spectrometry:  chemical and structural formula relationships

B.  Infrared  spectroscopy:  determination of organic functional families

C.  Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy:  determination of structural formulas

D.  Visible and ultraviolet spectroscopy

IX.  Free Radicals

                A.  Structure and relative stability of free radicals

                B.  Useful reactions of free radicals

                C.  Free radicals in biological systems