• ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

Organic chemistry is a branch of chemistry that deals with the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions and synthesis of natural or synthetic organic compounds that, by definition, contain carbon. This course provides an introduction to organic chemistry and lays the foundation for the basic concepts necessary for students pursuing scientific careers, particularly in chemistry, biology, biochemistry and health studies.

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Objectives

This course aims to provide basic knowledge to any student studying chemistry, but also in a field other than chemistry such as biology and biochemistry.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Know how to name a compound using the IUPAC systematic nomenclature and how to represent it.
  • Know how to analyze the structure of a molecule: acquire basic knowledge in stereochemistry.
  • Apply the knowledge gained to reactivity in organic chemistry:

- analyze electronic effects and predict their consequences on the properties and reactivity of a molecule.

- know how to write and understand the mechanisms of nucleophilic substitution, elimination and electrophilic addition.

- know and describe the synthesis and reactivity of haloalkanes, alkenes and alkynes.

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Necessary pre-requisites

General Chemistry HAV105C or HAC101C

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Knowledge control

final exam, 2 sessions 

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Syllabus

  • IUPAC nomenclature of the main classes of organic compounds
  • Covalent bonding and hybridization
  • Representations of molecules (plane, Cram, Newman and Fischer projections)
  • The plane isomerism
  • Stereoisomerism: 1) conformational, 2) configurational and its stereodescriptors
  • Chirality
  • Electronic effects (inductive, mesomeric) and their consequences on the stability and acid-base properties of molecules
    • Introduction to writing and describing a reaction scheme and mechanism
  • Nucleophilic substitution, elimination and electrophilic addition reactions
  • Properties, synthesis and reactivity of haloalkanes, alkenes and alkynes
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Additional information

Hourly volumes* :

CM : 18

TD : 21

TP:

Terrain:

Administrative contact(s):

 

Bachelor's Degree Secretariat

fds-licence-chimie@umontpellier.fr

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Bibliography

Recommended books:

Reference 1: Chemistry. Stéphane Perrio, Béatrice Roy and Jean-Yves Winum, Dunod 2017. 

Reference 2 : Chimie L1 - Je me trompe donc j'apprends ! Stéphane Perrio, Béatrice Roy and Jean-Yves Winum, Dunod 2020.

Reference 3: Mémo visuel de chimie organique -2e édition, Jacques Maddaluno, Véronique Bellosta, Isabelle Chataigner, François Couty, Anne Harrison-Marchand et al, Dunod 2018.

Reference 4: Le cours de chimie organique -3e édition, Jacques Maddaluno, Véronique Bellosta, Isabelle Chataigner, François Couty, Anne Harrison-Marchand et al, Dunod 2020.

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