Chemistry 202 - Organic Chemistry I
Fall
2018
02
4.00
Darren Hamilton;Gary Snyder
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM;F 08:30AM-09:20AM
Mount Holyoke College
104626
Cleveland 002L;Cleveland 002L
hamilton@mtholyoke.edu;gsnyder@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: CHEM-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.