This webinar, presented by the UNC System Organic Chemistry I Development Taskforce, provides an in-depth overview of the module content. Watch this video to explore the various assessments, instructional materials, learning activities, and lab activities intentionally designed to support the achievement of the stated student learning outcomes.
For addition information regarding the development of these materials and their suggested use within your course, we invite you to also review the Organic Chemistry I Faculty Resource Guide.
Name a given structure according to IUPAC rules and draw the structure of a compound given its name.
Predict and describe trends in the physical properties, including boiling point, melting point, and water solubility, of a set of compounds.
Predict the main product (and its stereochemistry) of a given chemical reaction and identify and draw various stereoisomers.
Identify reagents used for functional group transformations and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions.
Identify the properties and uses of acids and bases in organic chemistry.
Module 1 - Remembering General Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Bonding
Module 2 - Delocalized Electrons and Their Effect on Stability, pKa and the Products of a Reaction
Module 3 - Acids and Bases: Central to Understanding Organic Chemistry
Module 4 - An Introduction to Organic Compounds: Nomenclature, Physical Properties, and Representation of Structure
Module 5 - Isomers: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space
Module 6 - Alkenes: Structure, Nomenclature, and Reactivity. Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Module 7 - Substitution and Elimination Reactions
Module 8 - The Reactions of Alkenes: The Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions
Module 9 - The Reactions of Alkynes. An Introduction to Multistep Synthesis
Module 10 - Radical Reactions and Polymerization
Module 11 - Mass Spectrometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, NMR Spectroscopy, and Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy