CHEM 4524 - Organic Chemistry II

Structure, preparation, properties and reactions of ethers, epoxides, aromatics, arenes, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acid derivatives, phenols; carbanion reactions; electrophilic aromatic substitutions; reactions of alpha, beta-unsaturated compounds. Common organic laboratory preparations will be taken up including substitution, elimination, oxidation, and reduction reactions. Products will be analyzed using both traditional physical methods (polarimetry, boiling point, melting point) as well as infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance and gas chromatography.