CH 220 - Organic Chemistry I

Credit Hours: 3

This course is a detailed introduction to Organic Chemistry designed as a second year offering to science majors and to students in pre-medical, pre-dental, physical therapy, chiropractic, veterinary science, mortuary science, and other related disciplines. Topics include: electronic structure & bonding; properties of organic molecules; nomenclature and conformations of alkanes & cycloalkanes; stereochemistry - enantiomers & diasteriomers; holoalkanes - nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions & mechanisms; and alkene and alkynes - structure, synthesis, reactions and mechanisms.
Prerequisites: CH 182
Concurrent Registration: CH 221
F/S (C, N, S)