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Dec 14, 2025
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CHM 2210 - Organic Chemistry I3 lecture hours 2 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
Students will be introduced to major concepts and themes of organic chemistry. Students will gain understanding of organic chemistry principles and perform hands-on laboratory experiments to gain laboratory skills and analyze experimental data. Students will learn details about functional groups and their chemical reactions. Stereochemistry and conformational analysis will be studied. Students will be introduced to reaction mechanisms applied to specific reactions. Technique for analysis of organic molecules will be introduced. Fundamental organic chemistry knowledge learned could be applied towards biology, medicine, environmental, and material science.
Prereq: CHM 1010 (quarter system prereq: CH 200 or CH 200A or CH 200B)
Note: None
This course meets the following Raider Core CLO Requirement: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Relate chemical bonding to three-dimensional molecular shapes of organic compounds
- Understand concepts of acids and bases in context to organic molecules
- Identify and name types of aliphatic hydrocarbons
- Classify organic compounds by their functional groups and have knowledge of their reactivities
- Identify chiral molecules and conformations in organic molecules
- Interrelate organic reactions including synthesis and their applications
- Know the fundamentals of nuclear magnetic resonance for analysis of organic molecules
- Perform basic organic chemistry laboratory techniques and analyze experimental data
- Demonstrate hands-on experience in the safe handling of organic chemicals
Prerequisites by Topic
- Atomic structure
- Chemical bonding
- Molecular geometry
- Electronegativity
- Bond and molecular polarity
- Intermolecular forces
Course Topics
- Bonding and its consequences on structure and reactivity
- Lewis and Bronsted acid-base chemistry
- Nomenclature of hydrocarbons
- Functional groups and their interconversion
- Stereochemistry and conformational analysis
- Alkanes and cycloalkanes: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Alkenes and alkynes: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Aromatic and heterocyclic compounds: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Alcohols, esters, phenols, thiols: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Aldehydes and ketones: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Enols, enolates and aldols: properties and reactions
- Carboxylic acids: properties, synthesis, and reactions
- Derivates of carboxylic acids–acyl halides, anhydrides, esters and amides: properties, reactions, and applications
- Amines: properties, synthesis, reactions, and preparations
- Naturally occurring and biogenic amines
- Nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of organic compounds
Laboratory Topics
- Laboratory techniques I: liquid-liquid extraction
- Laboratory techniques II: TLC, refluxing, melting point analysis
- Simple distillation
- Nomenclature and 3D structure representation of organic compounds
- Properties of unsaturated hydrocarbons
- Properties of alcohol and phenols
- Properties of aldehydes and ketones
- Properties of carboxylic acids and its derivatives
- Synthesis, isolation, analysis, and recrystallization of organic compounds
- Monitoring the process of functional group conversions
Coordinator
Dr. Vipin Paliwal
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