The Department of Chemistry

Course Description

This course follows on the Organic Chemistry I course which students would have already taken and is designed to complete the organic chemistry theoretical knowledge considered essential for a major in Chemistry. Students will apply the knowledge they have gained in stereochemistry, spectroscopy and synthetic methodology. The course introduces the student to the basic chemistry and synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, amino acids, peptides and carbohydrates and to the mechanistic features of important types of organic reactions, namely substitution and elimination. The properties and role of reactive intermediates, e.g. carbenes, nitrenes, radicals and carbocations, in organic chemistry are also discussed.

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