Course: Selected Lectures in Organic Chemistry

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Course title Selected Lectures in Organic Chemistry
Course code OCH/OC3
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Soural Miroslav, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Criteria for organic reactions classification and types of reaction components 2. Methods for reaction mechanism elucidation 3. Electrofilic addition: mechanism and stereochemistry, synthetic application. AE leading to halogenderivatives, oxygen and sulphur species 4. Nucleophilic addition: addition to carbonyl group, mechanisms, catalysis types. AN to aldehydes and ketones (oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur nucleophiles), aldolization/aldol condensation, AN to iminocompounds (Mannich synthesis and related reactions), AN to carboxylic acids and their functional derivatives, AN to carbonic acid derivatives, AN to nitriles, cumulated and conjugated systems, AN to N=O and S=O bond, pseudobasicity 5. Radical additions: radical formation, types of radicals, mechanism and different types of starting compounds 6. Cycloadditions: classification, Ac leading to 3 - 6 membered rings, catalytic reduction 7. Nucleophilic substitution: types of SN and their mechanisms, aliphatic and aromatic SN, stereochemistry, key factors, examples of reactions with C,N,O,S-nucleophiles 8. Electrophilic substitution: aromatic SE, mechanism and classification according to the reactivity of electrophile and aromate, types of SE 9. Elimination reactions: mechanism types, stereochemistry of products, dehydrohalogenation, dehalogenation, dehydration, cleavage of quaternary ammonia hydroxides, E1cb reaction. Cis-eliminaton - thermal cleavage of esters and xanthogenates

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
Lectures in Organic Chemistry aimed on students´ acquisition of deeper knowledge of selected chapters in organic chemistry.
Main approaches and strategies in organic chemistry, mechanism of specific reactions, synthesis of selected compounds
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Passing an oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • John McMurry. (2007). Organická chemie. Praha.
  • Miroslav Soural, Jan Slouka. (2011). Stručný přehled nejdůležitějších organických reakcí, jejich mechanismu a syntetického využití. UP Olomouc.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology (2020) Category: Chemistry courses 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer