CHEM2131 — Organic Chemistry II
Organic reactions: nucleophilic substitutions, eliminations, carbonyl additions, acyl substitutions, aromatic electrophilic substitution, rearrangements, oxidation and reduction reactions. Use of spectroscopic tools in structure elucidation: nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectroscopy, infrared and electronic absorption spectroscopy. Reactivity of biologically important classes of organic compounds such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids. prereq: C- or better in 1333