Organic Chemistry Skills

Full course description

This course follows up on Chemistry and Biology Laboratory Skills and is closely connected to the course Organic Chemistry. You convert your theoretical knowledge on chemical reactivity and green chemistry to laboratory experiments. The course is specifically interesting for those opting for the concentration Circular Chemical Engineering. This skills training focuses on the development of a clear understanding of the synthesis and purification of organic chemical compounds. You are trained in safe handling of organic reagents and safe execution of organic experiments, commonly used organic synthetic laboratory techniques, synthetic chemistry of various organic reaction types (e.g. nucleophilic substitutions and eliminations, electrophilic reactions and radical chemistry), organic reactions in batch and in flow reactors, purifications and separations in chemistry and spectroscopy and characterization of organic compounds.