Entry requirements

60 credits in science/engineering including 10 credits organic chemistry.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course the student shall be able to:

• predict and explain the properties and reactivity of organic compounds based on their structure, as well as unambiguously report the structure of carbon compounds using structural formulas and projections 
• identify and describe synthetically relevant organic-chemical reagents and the course of reactions and discuss the mechanisms of such reactions, 
• identify and discuss basic chemo-, regio- and stereochemical problems in relation to chemical transformations, 
• with the support of literature and databases, seek knowledge about and plan industrially relevant organic transformations and analyzes to solve organic-synthetic issues, as well as discuss how different scales can affect environmental and economic positions, 
• independently carry out basic organic transformations and analyzes with a technically and scientifically relevant workflow and safe working methods 
• carry out risk assessment and keep continuous documentation of the laboratory work as well as orally and in writing report questions, contents and results. 

Content

Organic-chemical reactions of relevant compound classes. 

Reaction mechanisms for building up and breaking down carbon compounds. Introduction to retrosynthesis. 

Use of different concepts and explanatory models to explain reactivity and properties of organic compounds (conjugation, electronegativity, steric aspects and atomic orbital theory and molecular orbital theory).  

Fundamental aspects of chemo-, regio- and stereoselectivity in reactions. 

Concepts and reagents for organo-synthetic chemistry including various forms of catalysis. 

Differences and similarities between laboratory scale and industrial scale and working methods as well as economic and environmental perspectives.  

Individual exercises in methodology and transformations used in an organic-chemical laboratory. Practice in a technical and scientifically relevant workflow including use of spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques as well as oral and written reporting.  

In connection with the laboratories, risks and safety issues in laboratory work are discussed. 

Instruction

Lectures, problem solving sessions, seminars and laboratory work.

Assessment

Written examination (6 credits). Laboratory sessions (4 credits). The final grade is a weighted sum of the results of the written examination and the laboratory sessions.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other regulations

Cannot be included in a degree together with either of the courses 1KB407 Synthetic Organic Chemistry or 1KB419 Synthetic Organic Chemistry or 1KB420 Organic Chemistry II.