Organic Chemistry 3
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In-depth study of the aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene substituents) and the carbonyl group, chemistry of amines and their derivatives, chemistry of the heterocycles. Organic chemistry of biologically important molecules: carboxylic acids, carbohydrates, amino acids, peptides, proteins, natural products
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Additional reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives are studied in this chapter: chemistry of acid anhydrides: preparation and reactions, chemistry of amides: preparation, hydrolysis and reactions, nomenclature and properties of nitriles, chemistry of nitriles: preparation, hydrolysis and reactions.
The chemistry of the alpha carbon of a carbonyl is studied in this chapter: the alpha position, enols and tautomerization, the preparation of enolates and their reactivity, alpha halogenation, the haloform reaction, the alkylation of enolates, the malonic ester synthesis and acetoacetic ester synthesis.
Carbonyl condensation reactions are studied in this chapter: aldol and retro-aldol additions, aldol condensation, crossed aldol and intramolecular aldol reactions, Claisen condensation, Dieckmann cyclization, Michael reaction, Michael acceptors and donors, Stork enamine synthesis, Enamine Alkylation, Robinson annulation.
The benzylic and aromatic reactions of substituted benzene are studied in this chapter: reactivity of the benzylic position, benzylic oxidation and reduction, reduction of nitrobenzene, nucleophilic aromatic substitutions, elimination-addition via benzyne, reactivity of phenol, preparation and reactivity of diazonium salts.
Carbohydrates are studied in this chapter: properties of carbohydrates, Fischer projection, naming and classification of carbohydrates, configuration of aldoses and ketoses, cyclic structures of sugars, Haworth projection, ester, ether, and N-glycoside formation, epimerization, oxidation and reduction of sugars, chain lengthening and shortening, polysaccharides.
Amino acids, peptides, and proteins are studied in this chapter: structure and properties of amino acids, synthesis of amino acids (Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction, amidomalonate synthesis, Strecker synthesis, enantiopure synthesis), structure and properties of peptides, peptide sequencing by Edman degradation and enzymatic cleavage, synthesis of peptides, Merrifield solid-phase peptide synthesis, structures and functions of proteins.
Lipids are studied in this chapter: classes of lipids, waxes, triglycerides, reactions of triglycerides and fatty acids, phospholipids, phosphoglycerides, steroid structure, cholesterol and other major steroids, biosynthesis of cholesterol, eicosanoids, prostaglandins, terpenes, classification and biosynthesis of terpenes.