CHEM 3060 - Organic Chemistry II

• Students must be proficient in spectroscopy and modern spectroscopic techniques (1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR, Mass Spec and UV) for use in structural elucidation of organic compounds.
• Students must be proficient in the chemistry and reaction of amines.
• Students must be proficient in the chemistry of alcohols, ethers, alkyl halides, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives.
• Students must be proficient in the chemistry of aromatic compounds, including aromaticity, electrophilic aromatic substitution and nucleophilic aromatic substitution.
• Students must be proficient with addition reactions, nucleophilic acyl substitution and condensation reactions.
• Students must be proficient with enol and enolate chemistry including condensation reactions.
• Students must be proficient with free-radical chemistry and reactions.
• Students must be proficient with synthesis and the synthesis of natural products.
• Students must be proficient with the chemistry of carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides (proteins), nucleotides and nucleic acids.
• Students must be proficient with the chemistry of dienes, including Diels-Alder and other pericyclic reactions.