Course: Organic Chemistry 1

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Course title Organic Chemistry 1
Course code OCH/OC1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Markos Athanasios, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Organic Chemistry I provides information on chemical nomenclature, structure of basic organic skeletons, and their stereochemistry as well as their reactivity. Organic chemistry of the basic hydrocarbon skeletons. The subject of organic chemistry. Chemical bonds and bonding in organic molecules. Hybridization of the carbon atom, bonding energy, bond length, polarity of the chemical bond. Inductive and mesomeric effects on the chemical bonds, conjugation. General criteria of chemical reaction - reaction kinetics, reaction profiles and mechanism. Activation energy and enthalpy of the reaction. Chemical nomenclature. Alkanes and cycloalkanes, their chemical nomenclature. Chain isomerie, conformation analysis of alkanes and cycloalkanes (with stress on cyclohexane ring). Fused cyclic systems. Newmann projection. cis-trans Isomerism of cycloalkanes. Radical reactions as typical reactions of this system. Summary of radical reactions. Optical activity and symmetry of molecules. Chiral molecules, conditions of chirality. Methods of space objects presentation. Enantiomers, optical activity, specific rotation and its measurement, optical purity, racemic mixture. Molecules with more than one stereocenter. Cahn, Ingold, Prelog rules. Nomenclature of enantiomers. Meso compounds. Resolution of enantiomers. Alkenes, stereochemistry of double bond, cis-trans and E-Z nomenclature. Addition reactions, their summary with attention to the stereochemistry and mechanism. Polymerizations. Dienes and polyenes (cumulated, isolated, conjugated). Reactions of conjugated dienes, conditions and mechanism of 1,2- and 1,4-addition. Isoprenoides (monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, di-, tri- and tetraterpenes, carotenes). Electronic spectra and relation between the structure and its spectrum. Pericyclic reactions - electrocyclic reactions, cycloaddition reactions, the rules of their realization, sigmatropic rearrangements. Akynes and their structure. Properties of the triple bond, addition reactions (electrophilic and nucleophilic additions), acidity of the hydrogen atoms bound on sp- carbon, pK$_a$. The phenomenon of aromaticity and its properties. Nonbenzoid aromates (polycyclic aromates, annulenes, aromatic ions.} Mechanism of aromatic electrophilic substitution. Summary of electrophilic reactions, formation of electrophilic reagents. Effect of substituents on the reactivity and orientation. Hammet equation, sigma and rho constants. Ipso substitution. Nucleophilic substitution on the aromatic ring (SN1, SN2, elimination-addition mechanism). Conditions for addition reactions and reactions of oxidation. Substitution a other reactions on fused aromatic compounds.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
Specialized course focusing on basic principles of organic chemistry.
Define main concepts, describe main approaches, present system of the organic chemistry.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Requirements for Successful Completion of the Course OC1 The student must obtain at least 70 points out of a total of 110 points. Points can be obtained in the following ways: Continuous assessment test - max. 10 points (The test is mandatory and takes place during a seminar. Absence from the test is graded with 0 points.) Written colloquium - max. 100 points Dates: The date of the continuous assessment test will be announced at the first OC1 lecture. Dates of the written colloquium will be announced before the end of the teaching period. One early date will be scheduled in the last week of the semester; five dates will be scheduled during the regular examination period (May/June), and one date during the resit examination period (August). Each student is allowed a maximum of three attempts at the written colloquium: One regular attempt and two resit attempts. For the final evaluation, only the points from the continuous assessment test and from the written colloquium in which the student achieved the highest number of points are counted.
Recommended literature
  • Červinka O. a kol. (1987). Chemie organických sloučenin I, II. SNTL, Praha.
  • Červinka O., Dědek V., Ferles M. (1969). Organická chemie. SNTL, ALFA Bratislava.
  • Červinka O., Dědek V., Ferles M. (1980). Organická chemie. SNTL Praha.
  • Hrnčiar P. (1990). Organická chémia. SPN Bratislava.
  • Kováč J., Kováč Š. (1977). Organická chémia. SPN, Bratislava.
  • Slouka J., Fryšová I., Cankař P. (2010). Průvodce některými úvodními kapitolami organické chemie. Olomouc.


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