Overview
Description
Survey of the principles of carbon chemistry. Credit allowed in only one of the following: CHEM 220A, CHEM 241, CHEM 341.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- (recommended)
CHEM 121ACHEM 121LCHEM 201CHEM 122ACHEM 122LCHEM 202
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 121A and CHEM 121L or CHEM 201 or CHEM 122A and CHEM 122L (recommended) or CHEM 202.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- interpret IUPAC names of organic compounds, draw correct structures from names and vice versa, and differentiate between isomers (structural, geometric, or stereoisomers).
- recognize different bonding concepts including resonance and formal charges and use these concepts to predict structure and reactivity of simple organic compounds.
- identify an organic transformation as a substitution, addition, elimination, oxidation-reduction, or acid-base reaction.
- predict products, reagents, or starting materials in simple acid-base, substitution, addition, and oxidation-reduction reactions applied to alkyl halides, alkenes and alkynes, oxygen-containing functional groups such as alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, and carboxylic acids, and nitrogen-containing functional groups such as amines.
- draw and/or complete arrow-pushing mechanisms for reactions of simple to moderate complexity.
- apply organic structural and reactivity concepts to molecules of biological importance and complexity.