Unit name | Intermediate Organic & Biological Chemistry |
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Unit code | CHEM20180 |
Credit points | 30 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Crump |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
CHEM10600, CHEM10700, CHEM10800, CHEM10900 (or equivalent mathematics unit as approved by the School). |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Chemistry |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit develops the introduction to organic chemistry given in CHEM 10600/700/800 to provide the essential base of organic chemistry required for advanced study at Levels 6 and 7 (Years 3 and 4). It covers the main areas of the subject e.g. the chemistry of carbanions, carbocations and radicals, monofunctional and difunctional carbonyl compounds, aromatic, homocyclic and heterocyclic compounds, amino derivatives and modern aspects of synthesis. Workshops are integral to the unit.
Lectures, workshops (classes of 20 students with two staff members) and masterclasses (interactive seminar sessions of the whole class) and independent study. The Dynamic Laboratory Manual provides important e-learning resource in advance of workshop sessions. Pre-workshop online material will be provided to assist students with the contact workshop.
Exam: 2 x 2 hours 30 mins.
Essential reading will be from the following books:
Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, J Clayden, N. Greeves, S Warren, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Further reading from: Aromatic heterocyclic chemistry, D. T. Davies, Oxford Chemistry Primer 1992; Organic Synthesis, The Disconnection Approach, P. Wyatt and S. Warren, Wiley 2008; Workbook for Organic Synthesis The Disconnection Approach, P. Wyatt and S. Warren, Wiley 2009; Organic Synthesis, C. L. Willis and M. Wills, Oxford Chemistry Primer 1995.