AIMS OF COURSE:
-to develop abilities and skills such objectivity, integrity, insight and initiative that is relevant to the study of science
-to stimulate students, create and sustain their interest in chemistry and understand its relevance to society
-discuss bonding, structure and nomenclature of organic compounds and their corresponding functional groups
-appreciate the synthesis, functional groups, interconversions of aliphatic compounds and the concept of aromaticity and its consequences on chemical reactivity
OBJECTIVES:
Students will
-interpret and use nomenclature, general formulae and displayed formulae of given classes of compounds
-interpret and use terminology associated with organic reactions
-describe optical activity and identify chiral centres and/or cis/trans isomerism in a molecule given a structural formula
-discuss bonding nomenclature of functional groups and the concept of aromaticity in aliphatic compounds and benzene