CHM3163 ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

ADVANCED ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

INTRODUCTION

To understand organic chemistry one must first familiarize oneself with the physical and chemical properties of different functional groups of organic compounds. Then there is a need to understand the reactivity of organic molecules by application of molecular orbital theory. These two passes for understanding organic Chemistry have been covered respectively in Organic chemistry I (Level II) and Organic Chemistry II (Level IV). Thus organic chemistry I is an Introductory course that focus on compounds, followed by a course on reaction mechanisms

Now our goals is to solidify the student‘s understanding of the concepts provided in the two first parts of organic chemistry and to fill in much more information and details about Aromaticity, Organometallic compounds, Concerted reactions, Functional group protection  and an introduction to the Retrosynthesis.

Thus the four chapters in this Module are :

Chap. 1. AROMATICITY

Chap. 2. ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS

Chap. 3. FUNCTIONAL GROUP PROTECTION

Chap. 4. RETROSYNTHETIC ANALYSIS