Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Introduction to carbon compounds and review of bonding theories
• Construct Lewis structures for organic molecules and ions, including applicable resonance structure and formal charge.
• Describe atomic molecular, and hybrid orbitals and how these relate to molecular shape.
• Use VESPR theory to predict bond angles, bond lengths, and polarity.
• Representative Organic Compounds and Functional Groups
• Describe the properties of carbon-carbon single, double, and triple bonds, including aromatic systems.
• Identify functional groups.
• Acid base theory
• Relate structure and acid base strength.
• Predict acid base behavior based on pKa, protoc/aprotic solvents, etc.
• Chemistry and properties of alkanes
• Apply the IUPAC rules for naming alanes, alkyl halides, and alcohols.
• Generate isomers and recognize different types of isomerism.
• Explain properties of cyclic alkanes and use cyclic terminologyI
• Introduction to IR spectroscopy
• Use and describe the EM spectrum and how it relates to energy.
• Describe the basic concepts associated with IR spectroscopy.
• Identify major functional groups on the basis of IR spectra.Explain the proper sample prep needed for IR analysis.
• Stereochemistry
• Identify, name, separate, and determine total number of isomers for chiral compounds (including meso).
• Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination
• Describe the chemical and physical properties of alkyl halides
• Classify and rate reactions as Sn1, Sn2, E1, and E2 on the basis of substrate, solvent, nucleophile, and leaving group
• Give detailed mechanisms for Sn1, Sn2, E1, and E2 mechanism and understand their applications in terms of chirality and yield.
• Radical Reactions
• Write general radical mechanisms.
• Describe differences between the halogens for radical reactions.
• Describe differences between the halogens for radical reactions.
• Use radical terminology and explain thermodynamics of radicals.