SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: The element carbon, its catenation and three-dimensional tetrahedral nature;
Covalent molecular compounds of carbon;
Bonding, sigma and pi bonds, hybridisation, resonance, bond polarity;
Electron flow mechanisms;
Significance of, and information contained in molecular formulae;
Unsaturation, formal charge, carbonium ions, carbanions, free radicals, electrophiles, nucleophiles, electron delocalisation;
Types of isomerism, writing stereoformulae, R,S and E,Z systems, chirality and symmetry, diastereoisomerism;
Reaction chemistry, elimination, substitution, combustion, inductive and mesomeric effects, steric hindrance, relative acidity, hydrogen bonding, tautomerism;
Important industrial applications of organic synthesis;
A brief introduction to the basis of and applications for infra-red, ultra-violet and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. |
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