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 Department:    CHEM&

 Course #:    242

 Credits:    4

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    4

 CIP:    400504

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

A continuation of CHEM& 241. For students majoring in chemistry or biology, or pursuing graduate degrees in medicine or pharmacy. Radical reactions, infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, preparation and reactions of alcohols, ethers, and epoxides, conjugated systems and pericyclic reactions, aromaticity and aromatic substitution reactions.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Both CHEM& 163 and CHEM& 241 with a grade of "C" or higher.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 44

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic Natural Sciences  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Name alcohols, ethers, and derivatives of benzene.
2. Propose mechanisms for and/or predict products of radical halogenation and the reactions of alcohols, ethers and epoxides, conjugated systems, and the derivates of benzene.
3. Propose multiple methods for synthesizing alcohols, ethers and epoxides, dienes, and derivatives of benzene.
4. Use data from a spectrometer to determine the functionality and/or structure of a molecule.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. IUPAC and common nomenclature of alcohols, ethers, and derivatives of benzene.
2. Radical halogenation, oxidation-reduction, organometallic reactions, ring-opening of epoxides, pericyclic reactions, electrophilic aromatic substitution, and nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
3. Synthesis of alcohols, ethers, epoxides, dienes, and derivatives of benzene.
4. Theory of infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
5. Analysis of data obtained from infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.