B006416 - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Italian

Course Contents (detailed program): Introduction: beginning and development of organic chemistry.
Hybridization of the carbon atom and shape of the molecules. Bondsethylene and acetylene. Bond length and strength. Acid-base theories. Inductive and resonance effects.
Structure and stability of carbocations. Hyper-conjugative effects.
Classification of the organic chemistry reactions. Electrophiles and nucleophiles: definition, analogies and differences between acid-base and E/N behaviour

J. Gorzynski Smith, Fondamenti di Chimica Organica, McGraw-Hill, Milano.
J. McMurry, Fondamenti di Chimica Organica, Zanichelli, Bologna.
W. Brown, T. Poon, Introduzione alla Chimica Organica, EdiSES, Napoli.
Material provided by the teacher

Knolewdge acquired:
The course is aimed to provide the students with a basic knowledge of organic chemistry. The knowledge of this subject is a fundamental requirement for understanding the complex biochemical mechanisms found in living organisms, such as metabolism and energetic balance, formation of secondary metabolites, action of enzymes and biologically active substances, etc.
Competence acquired:
Ability to recognize the main classes of organic compounds according to the functional groups linked in the molecule. Evaluation of the possibility of transforming the existing functional groups and adding new groups in order to increase the reactivity and/or carry out the preparation of a target compound. General view of the most important classes of organic reactions and related reaction mechanisms.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
At the end of the course the students will acquire the ability of writing the structures of organic molecules on the basis of both trivial and IUPAC names. The students, on the basis of the structure of a given compound, will be able to predict its properties, such as acidity, basicity, electrophilic and/or nucleophilic character, optical activity, etc. Furthermore, they will acquire the capability of understanding the general problems related to reactivity of organic compounds, such as formation of by-products, stereo- and regioisomers, etc..

Courses to be used as requirements
Courses required: General and Inorganic Chemistry
Courses recommended: Mathematics, Physics

CFU: 6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities:102
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 48
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours): 0
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 0
Seminars (hours): 0
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0

Frequency of lectures, practice and lab:
Highly recommended
Teaching tools:
Molecular models.
Office hours:
By e-mail contact with the teacher.

Exam modality: Discussion on the general properties of a class (more classes)of organic compounds. Solving of problems related to the reactivity, reaction mechanisms. Regio- and stereoisomerism.
Programme (short version for Diploma Supplement):
Hybridization and shapes of the molecules. Acidity, basicity, electrophilic and nucleophilic character of organic compounds. Redox reactions. Main classes of organic compounds: their synthesis and reactivity. Addition, elimination, and substitution reactions. Structural and stereoisomerism. Biologically relevant organic compounds: amino acids, peptides, proteins, mono- di-, and polysaccharides, lipids.