Course 2024-2025

Organic Chemistry [SCHIB202]

  • 10 credits
  • 45h+66h
  • 1st and 2nd quarter
Language of instruction: French / Français

Learning outcomes

To familiarize students with the wealth of chemical behavior of mono- and polyfunctional organic molecules through the study of reaction mechanisms and stereochemistry. The ubiquity of organic chemistry in everyday life is emphasized by many connections with the biological and technological achievements. The course is given in French.

Objectives

see french section.

Content

Initially, the course focuses on the detailed description of the reactivity of basic functions with emphasis on processing and the interconversion of functional groups. At this level, attention is drawn to the relative nature of the fundamental properties: nucleophilic, electrophilic, acid, base, in the sense that, often, a functional group may change their behavior according to the reagent into his presence. In the study of the stereochemistry of reactions, different spacial representation (perspective, Newman projection, Fischer projection) are used alternately and / or simultaneously, in order to accustom students to the equivalence of these representations. Then, the problem of the presence of several functional groups in one molecule is addressed in particular by an introductory study of some classes of compounds with complex structures such as carbohydrates, hetero-cyclic compounds and terpenes.

Table of contents

see french section.

Exercises description

see french version.


Prerequisites

Chimie organique [SCHIB105]

Teaching methods

see french section.

Evaluations

This course will be evaluated during written exams, with several questions (70 % = 30% for the 1st semester program, 40% for the 2nd semester program).

TDs will be evaluated (20% of the final score) and TPs (10 %) (see french section for details).

Recommended readings

Clayden, J.; Greeves, N.; Warren, S. and Wothers, P. - Organic Chemistry.

Language of instruction

French / Français

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR

Degree of Reference

Undergraduate Degree