Course
Description: CHEM 203 is a
one-semester organic chemistry course that has both lecture and
laboratory components. The lecture introduces students to the basic
theory and application (structure determination) of different types of
spectroscopy (nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, infrared
spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy) and mass
spectrometry. Certain chemical reactions learned in CHEM 202 will be
reviewed along with the mechanistic details of some of these processes.
Special topics such as drug discovery, natural product isolation, and
synthesis will be surveyed. The laboratory teaches students the
fundamental techniques used by organic chemists such as
recrystallization, melting point determination, distillation,
extraction, thin-layer chromatography, and column chromatography.
Mastery of these basic techniques lays the foundation for carrying out
organic syntheses and/or natural product isolations. Students are given
hands-on access to instrumentation for the characterization of
synthetic products or organic unknowns using standard analysis methods
such as IR, NMR, UV/V is spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, polarimetry,
HPLC, GC and GC-MS. Students are responsible for writing laboratory
reports for all experiments.
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