Chemistry 202 - Organic Chemistry I
Fall
2017
02
4.00
Darren Hamilton;Gary Snyder
MWF 08:35AM-09:50AM
Mount Holyoke College
100818
Kendade 305
hamilton@mtholyoke.edu;gsnyder@mtholyoke.edu
Introduces organic chemistry, emphasizing the principles governing broad classes of reactions. Topics include stereochemistry, nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions, the chemistry of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, and ethers, and an introduction to infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Laboratory work includes synthesis, practice in the techniques of distillation, crystallization, chromatography, molecular modeling, and identifying unknown organic compounds by chemical and spectroscopic means.
Prereq: CHEM-201 with grade of C or better.; Coreq: CHEM-202L.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.