Course Overview
This course covers structure and bonding in organic compounds, acidity and basicity, factors affecting boiling point and solubility, extractions, nomenclature, and structure determination using IR and NMR spectroscopy. The preparations and reactions of alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, epoxides, and sulfides will be examined. Laboratory exercises include the isolation and identification of natural products, qualitative tests for the identification of functional groups, preparation of samples for infrared analysis, and qualitative analysis by gas chromatography.
Prerequisite(s)
- UBC CHEM 121 and CHEM 123
Credits
6.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe the hybridization of bonds in organic compounds.
- Name and identify functional groups in structures.
- Calculate the formal charge for atoms in a molecule.
- Draw resonance structures of molecules.
- Predict the direction of Bronsted acid/base reactions.
- Explain trends in physical properties (solubility, melting point, boiling point) of compounds based on the types of intermolecular attractive forces.
- Propose extractive procedures for the separation of organic mixtures.
- Name and draw structures of alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, and sulfides.
- Determine the degree of unsaturation of an organic compound.
- Assign cis-trans and E,Z designations to double bonds.
- Outline methods of preparing alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, epoxides, and sulfides.
- Describe mechanisms of electrophilic addition reactions to alkenes.
- Determine the products of reactions involving alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, ethers and epoxides.
- Plan multistep syntheses involving alkynes and alcohols.
- Determine the absolute configuration at chiral carbons.
- Draw the enantiomer and/or diastereomers from a given stereoisomer.
- Carry out procedures in the laboratory to isolate and purify organic liquids and solids.
- Identify functional groups in compounds from their infrared spectra.
- Identify nonequivalent hydrogens in compounds and predict the number of signals in proton NMR spectra.
- Predict the multiplicity of NMR signals from structures of compounds.
- Propose structures of compounds from their proton NMR spectra.
Effective as of Fall 2006
Related Programs
Organic Chemistry 1 for Biotechnology (CHEM 3338) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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School of Health Sciences
- Honours in Biotechnology
Bachelor of Science Full-time
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