Semester/Year: 1/1

Lec.+lab/week: (2+2) hours

This course is designed to introduce the student with the basic principles of organic chemistry such as: general classification of organic compounds, shapes or organic compounds-hybridization, structural representation of organic molecules, functional groups, homologous series, common or trivial names, nomenclature of aliphatic, aromatic and substituted aromatic compounds. Structural isomerism and stereoisomerism is discussed. It deals also with fundamental concepts in reaction mechanism: cleavage or covalent bond, electron movement in organic reactions, electronic displacement in a covalent bond and types of organic reactions. The following laboratory techniques of methods of purification of organic compounds are performed: crystallization, melting point determination, extraction, simple and fractional distillation, boiling point determination and chromatographic separations. Practical hours are included.