Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to assist you in linking principles you already learned in general chemistry to more advanced concepts as they will actually be applied in the organic chemistry course you will take as a sophomore in college. You will review and apply, (1) most of the concepts delineating atomic/ molecular structure, and how these structures are represented by the various models; such as ball and stick, Lewis structures, Hawthorne structures, Newman projections, and dash-wedge notation, (2) chemical bonding and the implications for charge separation, polarity, and species reactivity, (3) how to write reaction mechanisms using curved arrows; (4) acid-base chemistry; and (5) understand and describe the ten elementary reaction steps. Through assigned readings, problem sets, online discussions, quizzes, home experiments, molecular simulations and exams, you will gain many of the prerequisite skills necessary to examine simple reactants and reaction conditions, and predict products.
Textbook and Materials
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