Nov 24, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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CHM 211 - Organic Chemistry I


(4-2-5)

Prerequisite: CHM 112  or equivalent

This first course on the chemistry of carbon includes structure and properties of matter, bond dissociation energy, homolysis and heterolysis, polarity of molecules, hydrocarbons, mechanism of chlorination, free radicals, energy of activation, qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis, alkanes, free radical substitution, classification by structure and nomenclature, alkyl groups, orientation of halogenation, orientation and reactivity, stereochemistry, alkenes, alkynes and dienes, alkyl halides, alicyclic hydrocarbons, benzene, and electrophilic aromatic substitution. This course consists of four hours of lecture and two hour lab per week.

 

Note: This course is also available as an online course. 



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