ORGANIC CHEMISTRY (SURNAMES L-Z)
Stampa
Enrollment year
2021/2022
Academic year
2021/2022
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
CHIM/06 (ORGANIC CHEMISTRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
(01/03/2022 - 14/06/2022)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Teacher
PROTTI STEFANO - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
preliminary knowledge of general and inorganic chemistry
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide biologists with the background for understanding the structures and reactivity of organic and bioactive compounds. The chemistry of the main classes of organic compounds is investigated during the present course: alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, aromatic compounds, aldehydes, ketones, amines, carboxylic acids and their derivatives.
Course contents
The program is outlined as follows:
1. Covalent bond and geometry of chemical bonds. Hybridization, resonance structures.
2. Acids and bases
3. Alkanes and cycloalkanes, nomenclature and reactivity
4. Chirality. Definition, methods of representation and classification of chiral molecules.
5. Alkyl halides. Nucleophilic substitution and elimination reaction.
6. Alkenes and alkynes, nomenclature and reactivity. Electrophilic addition reactions, oxidation of alkenes, catalytic hydrogenation.
7. Aromatic compounds, nomenclature and reactivity. Aromatic electrophilic substitution reactions.
8. Aromatic and aliphatic amines.
9. Aldehydes and ketones. Nomenclature and reactivity. Nucleophilic addition reactions, reductions, imine synthesis.
10. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives.
11. Enolate anions. Aldolic and Claisen condensation reactions.
12. Carbohydrates. Classification and traditional nomenclature.
13. Lipids and fatty acids.
14. Amino acids and proteins
15. Nucleic acids.
The course is implemented by theoretical exercises.
Teaching methods
25 Lessons (frontal teaching)
10 Seminars on specific topics.
Reccomended or required readings
-Introduzione alla chimica organica, W. Brown

- Elementi di Chimica Organica, P. Bruice
Assessment methods
3 In itinere written tests carried out on a regular basis during the course.
In alternative:
Written test on the entire program covered by the course.
Further information
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