The aim of the course is to understand the properties of organic compounds on the basis of the chemical structure and hybridization of the carbon atom in the homologous series and their reactivity, as well to develop skills for the qualitative/quantitative determination of chemical compounds using modern spectroscopic / spectrometric techniques. It also aims at developing skills for the students in the use of techniques for the detection and quantification of organic compounds. All of these result in a necessary basis for understanding next undergraduate and post graduate courses.
Students are expected be able to use UPAC nomenclature, for the organic compounds of all homologous series, and to design their isomeric compounds on the base of the hybrids and the geometry of carbon atoms, to understand the reactivity of the unsaturated hydrocarbons through their chemical reactions, as well to understand stereochemistry, and its application on simple chemical compounds /products of reactions as appeared inSN1/SN2 and E1/E2 chemical reactions.
At the end of the course students are expected to be able to use UV-visible, Infrared, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry to identify and quantify pure organic substances of simple structure, contained functional groups of hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, alcohols, thiols, aldehydes, ketone, carboxylic acids, esters, amines, amino-acids, and carbohydrates, as well aromatic compounds. They must be able to understand the chemical reactivity of the functional groups, and explain their chemical properties based on the chemical structure/stereochemistry of the functional groups as described above.
Students are expected to define the properties of biopolymers such as proteins, polysaccharides, nucleic acids on the base of the chemical structure: units-sequence and stereo-configuration, recognize and explain the properties of fats, triglycerides /phosphoglycerides, as well as prostagladines, steroids, terpenes, with emphasis to the soaps and emulsifiers and the role they play in live organisms.
In the laboratory part, students are expected to acquire skills for use simple laboratory techniques for isolation, extraction, organic substances, and initial characterization or identification of organic compounds.