Course Level:
Second Year
Academic Year:
2024/2025
Instructor: Dr. Jay Wickenden,
Course Outline (Subject to Change):
- General Concepts: hybridization, acid‐base equilibrium & resonance
- Structure & Bonding: Isomers, IUPAC nomenclature, functional groups, conformational analysis, cycloalkanes
- Stereochemistry
- Bimolecular mechanisms (SN2 & E2)
- Unimolecular mechanisms (SN1 & E1)
- Additions to alkenes/alkynes (Bromination, HBr addition, hydration, polymerization, reduction
- Electrophilic aromatic substitution
- Alkyl halides: Free Radical Reactions
- Reactions of Alcohols: oxidation/reduction, conversion to alkyl halides
- Aldehydes and Ketones: Hydration, acetal formation/hydrolysis, carbohydrates