Basic Chemistry Course 4 (organic chemistry) (KEMP105)

 

                                                                                  

 

 

In this course teaching language is Finnish. If you are non-Finnish speaking and like to complete this course, contact course teacher/lecturer Juhani Huuskonen.

 

 

Schedule

Spring 2010, periods 1 ja 2, 12.1.-5.5. Lectures 60 h Tue 10-12 ja Wed 14-16.

 

 

Contents

 

Introduction to organic chemistry: functional groups, nomenclature of organic compounds, drawing structural formulas, hydrocarbons, alicyclic and cyclic alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, halogenoalkanes, ethers, alcohols, amines, aromatic compounds and carbonyl compounds, classes of isomers, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms (S_N1, S_N2, E1, E2), reduction and oxidation reactions.

 

Literature

 

J.G. Smith, Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition (2007), chapters 1-12.

 

 

 

Prerequisites

 

Student should have good knowledge in basic general chemistry

 

 

Completion mode

 

Two exams. Both exams have to be passed. Student should have minimum points in both exam normally half of the maximum points of the exam.