19 Organic Chem

Goals

Students will learn:

• • bonding characteristics of carbon account not only for the vast number of organic compounds but for the differences in carbon's allotropes.

  • that carbon forms single, double and triple bonds

  • to recognize the bonding characteristics of aromatic compounds

  • to distinguish functional groups

  • to classify compounds

Objectives

Section 1: Compounds of Carbon

• 1. Explain the unique properties of carbon that make the formation of organic molecules possible.

  2. Relate the structures of diamond, graphite, and other allotropes of carbon to their properties.

  3. Describe the nature of the bonds formed by carbon in alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, and cyclic compounds.

  4. Classify organic compounds such as alcohols, esters, and ketones by their functional groups.

  5. Explain how the structural difference between isomers is related to the difference in their properties.

Section 2: Names and Structures of Organic Compounds

• 1. Name simple hydrocarbons from their structural formulas.

  2. Name branched hydrocarbons from their structural formulas.

  3. Identify functional groups from a structural formula, and assign names to compounds containing functional groups.

  4. Draw and interpret structural formulas and skeletal structures for common organic compounds.

Section 3: Organic Reactions

• 1. Describe and distinguish between substitution and addition reactions.

  2. Describe and distinguish between condensation and elimination reactions.