Chemistry 202 - Organic Chemistry I
Fall
2013
01
4.00
Kathryn McMenimen
MWF 08:35AM-09:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
85400
Cleveland 002L
kamcmeni@mtholyoke.edu
'Introduces organic chemistry, emphasizing the principles governing broad classes of reactions. Topics include stereochemistry, nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions, the chemistry of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, and ethers, and an introduction to infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Laboratory work includes synthesis, practice in the techniques of distillation, crystallization, chromatography, molecular modeling, and identifying unknown organic compounds by chemical and spectroscopic means.'
Prereq: Chemistry 201 with grade of C or better