2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CHEM 245 Survey of Organic Chemistry

Students taking this course will learn about structures, bonding, nomenclature, stereochemistry and reactivity of organic compounds. The following types of organic compounds will be covered: hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and aromatics), alkyl halides, alcohols, phenols, ethers, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters and amides. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CHEM 134

Offered

Fall

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify organic functional groups
  2. Use fundamental principles of bonding to predict the shape, bond angles, and hybridization for organic compounds
  3. Identify key reactions and predict the results of reactions
  4. Identify and discuss the chemistry of various key environmental organic compounds