Basic Organic Chemistry

This course is a 4 credit course (15 weeks, 40 module) for B. Sc. Chemistry Students. Here, Students will be taught how to improve their basic understanding of chemical concepts. The scientific explanation given in the video contents makes use of the following components: Presentations, chemical structures, figures, tables, images, use of molecular models, etc.Who can benefit Any student or learner who wants to learn the basics of organic chemistry. The course shall be helpful for UG students (credit transfer), research scholars, young scientists and faculty members for their career growth. UG students who are in pursuit of excellence can learn more from this course. The course covers most of the topics (organic chemistry) that are part of various competitive exams. IIT-JEE, CSIR-NET, GATE, UPSC, SLET, SSC-CGL, various CET. Industry support for jobs pharma, petrochemical, dye, perfume, agro chemicals industries

Syllabus

Week 1
Introduction to chemical evolution,Carbon fixation-Calvin cycle

Introduction to molecular interactions, types of bonds
Common bonding pattern for carbon, oxygen and nitrogen
VSEPR theory
Tutorial: VB theory

Week 2
VB theory, hybridisation in methane, ammonia, amide, water, alkene, alkyne
MO theory, orbital overlap (s-s, s-p, p-p), bond order, s-p mixing

Week 3
Electronic effects 1: Inductive effects and its significance
Electronic effects 2: Resonance effects and its significance

Week 4
Electronic effects 3: Hyperconjugation and its significance
Tutorial:Acids and bases: Arrhenius, Brønsted-Lowry, and Lewis theories

Week 5
Functional groups and their importance
Tutorial : Formal charge

Week 6
Reactivity and intermediates
Carbocations, Carbanions, Free radicals and Carbenes

Week 7
Types of organic reactions and their mechanism
Addition, Elimination, Substitution and radical reactions
Stereochemistry 1: Fischer, Newmann and Sawhorse Projections
Tutorial:Fischer-DL

Week 8
Stereochemistry 2: Geometrical isomerism – cis/trans, E/Z notation, CIP rule
Optical Isomerism -enantiomer, diastereomer
Tutorial:Geometrical isomerism
Tutorial: enantiomer, diastereomer

Week 9
Chemistry of alkanes: formation, Wurtz Reaction, Wurtz-Fittig Reactions, Reactions of alkanes

Week 10
Electrophilic additions
Markownikoff and Anti Markownikoff addition
Reactions of alkenes 1: Oxymercuration-demercuration, Hydroboration-oxidation, Ozonolysis
Tutorial: E2
Tutorial:Electrophilic additions

Week 11
Reactions of alkenes 2: Catalytic reduction, 1,2-and 1,4-addition, Diels-Alder reaction

Week 12
Reactions of alkenes 3: Di-hydroxylation, Allylic and benzylic bromination and mechanism
Reactions of alkynes

Week 13
Conformation of cycloalkanes 1
Conformation of cycloalkanes 2
Conformation of cyclohexane

Week 14
Aromaticity 1: Huckel’s rule, aromatic character of cyclic C3 and C4 systems
Aromaticity 2: aromatic character of cyclic C5-C7 systems, heterocycles

Week 15
Aromatic Electrophilic substitutions 1: Halogenation
Aromatic Electrophilic substitutions 2: Hammick and Illingworth empirical rule, Orientation
Aromatic Electrophilic substitutions 3: Nitration, sulphonation, Friedel-Crafts alkylations and acylation