Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
Grao en Química |
Subjects |
Química Orgánica 1 |
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Identifying Data | 2015/16 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Química Orgánica 1 | Code | 610G01026 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatoria | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1. Chemical structure and chemical bonding in organic molecules | Lewis Structures. Resonance Structures. Atomic and hybrid orbitals. Chemical structure and bonding on methane, ethene and ethyne. |
2. Organic reactions | Characteristics of the organic compounds. Types of reaction Mechanisms. Types of reagents: acids and bases, oxidants and reductors, electrophilicity and nucleophilicity. Classification of the Organic reactions. Thermodynamic and kinetic features of Organic Reactions. Kinetic and thermodynamic control. Reaction intermediates. |
3. Alkanes and cycloalkanes. Reactions | Physical properties. n-Alkanes: Rotational barriers. Conformational isomerism. Cycloakanes: ring strain. |
4. Stereochemistry | Optical activity. Chirality and enantiomers. Nomenclature. Diasteroisomers. Stereoisomerism in cyclic molecules. |
5. NMR Spectroscopy | Basic principles of the NMR. The most important nuclei studied in Organic Chemistry. The chemical shift, Spin-spin coupling: N+1 rule. Identification of Organic functional groups by NMR. |
6. Reactions of Alkanes. | Halogenation. Pyrolisis. Combustion. Cracking. |
7. Alkyl Halides | Chemical structure and properties. Nucleophilic substition reactions (SN). Factors determining the SN mechanisms: substrate (structure of the alkyl group and nature of the leaving group, nucleophilicity of the reagent and solvent effects. Competitive proccesses in the SN reaction: transpositions and eliminations. Organometallic compounds. Reduction of alkyl halides. |
8. Alcohols | Chemical structure. Acid-base propierties. Reactions through the O-H bond. Reactions through the C-O bond. Oxidation. Thiols. |
9. Ethers | Chemical structure. Ether cleavage. Epoxides. Thioethers. |
10. Amines | Structure and properties. Acid-base reactions. Alkylation of amines. Hoffman's elimination. Oxidation: Cope's elimination. |
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