Chemistry 202 - Organic Chemistry I
Fall
2015
03
4.00
William Cotter;Ashley Figueiredo;Darren Hamilton
MWF 08:35AM-09:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
93512
Shattuck Hall 216
wdcotter@mtholyoke.edu;afigueir@mtholyoke.edu;hamilton@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.; Coreq: CHEM-202L.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.