Syllabus
- Principles of organic chemistry – Naming, Structure and Hybridisation
- Isomerism in organic chemistry - Optical, Geometric, Conformational and Structural
- Reactions of common groups and their properties
- Chirality and its implications
- Organic reaction mechanisms
- Carbocation rearrangements
- Substitution and Elimination reactions SN1, SN2 and E1, E2
- Resonance structures – Hemiacetals, Hemiketals and acid salts
- Transamination
- Peptide hydrolysis
- Fatty acids and iodine number
- The 4n+2 rule and aromatic systems and Huckel’s rules
- E / Z notation
- Effect of substituent groups on the benzene ring
- Fischer projections, Newman projections and other 3D considerations
- Conformational isomerism
- Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention and the application to stereoisomerism
- Assignment of true configuration to optical isomers R and S
- Diels-Alder and related reactions
- Sigmatropic rearrangements
- Aldol formation and the Aldol condensation
- The terpene structure as a base of larger organic molecules
- Weiner Index
- Bicyclic Nomenclature
- Infrared Spectroscopy and NMR
- Beer-Lambert Law
- Ternary Diagrams
- Morphine rules
A range of other degree level organic areas are introduced, and application to simulated questions will enforce concepts, as they are covered during the course
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