Organic Reactions

Full course description

This course focuses on chemical reactivity. In this course, a broad review will be presented of the most important functional groups and their reactivity. This review will describe the synthesis and reactivity of molecules, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and amines. It will also discuss reactions involving orbitals, the so-called pericyclic reactions. Knowledge of the various types of organic reactions will provide the basic skills to design multistep synthesis sequences to obtain specific organic compounds. Furthermore, the reaction types will be placed in an appropriate context with regard to practical applicability and industrial processing. Finally, also theoretical aspects regarding reaction mechanisms will be presented.

Course objectives

To provide a comprehensive overview of chemical reactivity;
To understand the reactivity of most common functional groups;
To be able to present detailed reaction mechanisms for typical organic reactions;
To give the ability to design multi-step reaction sequences to obtain a specific organic compound.

Prerequisites

CHE2001
CHE2004

Co-requisites

PRA3001

Corequisites

Advanced Organic Synthesis

Organic Reactions