Organic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity

4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: course 20B with grade of C– or better. First term of organic chemistry for Chemistry, Biochemistry, and engineering majors. Covalent bonding, shapes, stereochemistry, and acid/base properties of organic molecules. Properties, synthesis, and reactions of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, and alkynes. SN2, SN1, elimination, and radical reactions. P/NP or letter grading.