CHM 203 Organic Chemistry I
Provides science majors and pre-professional students with a foundational study of organic chemistry. This is the first course of a two-course series covering the most fundamental concepts, reactions, and mechanisms involved in the understanding and practice of organic chemistry. Topics include alkanes, alkenes, aromatics, structure, properties, nomenclature, conformations, isomers, stereo- chemistry, chirality, resonance, reactions, polymerizations, synthesis, carbocations, radicals, mechanisms, thermodynamics, and spectroscopic techniques. Three lecture periods per week.