- Docente: Susanna Guernelli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/06
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Scientific Information on Pharmaceutical Products (cod. 0037)
Course contents
Introduction and overview: Electronic structure and chemical bonds. Lewis structures. Resonance structures. Atomic orbitals. The Aufbau principle. molecular orbitals. Hybrid orbitals. Structures of organic molecules. Acids and bases. Functional groups.
Alkanes: nomenclature, physical properties, reactivity, conformational isomers, potential-energy diagrams.
Stereoisomerism: chiral molecules, optical activity, absolute configuration, Fischer projections, diastereomers, stereochemistry in chemical reactions, separation of enantiomers.
Cyclic Alkanes: nomenclature, physical properties, ring strain and structure, polycyclic alkanes.
Haloalkanes: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Organometallic reagents: alkyllithium and alkylmagnesium.
Nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations: introduction, kinetic, stereochemistry, competition between elimination and substitution.
Alkenes: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Alkynes: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Alcohols: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Ethers: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Aromatic compunds: nomenclature, aromaticity, resonance, electrophilic aromatic substitution, reactions of substituted benzenes, substituents control, regioselectivity.
Arenes: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Electron delocalisation and resonance: benzylic radical and carbocation, dienes.
Phenols: nomenclature, physical properties, acidity, preparation, reactivity.
Aldehydes and ketones: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Carboxylic acids: nomenclature, physical properties, acidity, preparation, reactivity.
Derivatives of carboxylic acids: nomenclature, physical properties, preparation, reactivity.
Readings/Bibliography
Recommended reading
W. H. Brown, C. S. Foote, S. Iverson, Chimica
Organica, 3a ed., 2006, EdiSES.
W. H. Brown, T. Poon, Introduzione alla Chimica
Organica, 3a ed., 2005, EdiSES.
P. Y. Bruice, Chimica Organica, 2005, EdiSES.
J. McMurry, Chimica Organica, 6a ed., 2004, PICCIN.
Teaching methods
Lessons and class exercises.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Videobeamer.
Office hours
See the website of Susanna Guernelli