Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Draw reaction mechanisms including addition to alkenes, electrophilic aromatic substitutions and nucleophilic substitutions
• Name organic molecules and functional groups
• Draw and explain structural features in organic molecules.
• Explain and use aspects of reactivity including resonance, conjugation, acidity, basicity, aromaticity, nucleophilicity and leaving group ability.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Meet the learning outcomes of a co-requisite practical module.

Structural organic chemistry: Naming and drawing organic molecules and functional groups; IR spectroscopy; Atomic and molecular orbitals; Hybridisation; Isomerism in unsaturated molecules; Isomerism at saturated carbon including optical activity; Conformational Analysis – Linear; Conformational analysis – cyclic

Reactions in organic chemistry: Drawing reaction mechanisms; Resonance and conjugation; Inductive effects; Acidity and carbon acids; Nitrogen acids and bases; Aromaticity and benzene; Addition to alkenes; Electrophilic aromatic substitution; Heterocycles; Nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon; Leaving group ability; Nucleophilicity; SN1 and SN2 reaction mechanisms.

Lectures, small group tutorials and laboratory sessions.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.