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Organic Chemistry Course Overview

This document provides a course description for CHEM1.2, an introductory organic chemistry course. The course is worth 3 ECTS credits and involves 30 total hours, including 21 lecture hours and 9 tutorial hours. The course aims to help students understand the fundamentals of organic chemistry and its importance in industries like food, clothing, and medicine production. Students will learn to solve problems involving topics like stereochemistry, reactivity, and synthesis, while also developing skills like critical thinking. Assessment includes assignments, exercises, a midterm, and a final exam worth 60% of the grade. Course content includes fundamentals and topics such as alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, aromatics, aldehy

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Organic Chemistry Course Overview

This document provides a course description for CHEM1.2, an introductory organic chemistry course. The course is worth 3 ECTS credits and involves 30 total hours, including 21 lecture hours and 9 tutorial hours. The course aims to help students understand the fundamentals of organic chemistry and its importance in industries like food, clothing, and medicine production. Students will learn to solve problems involving topics like stereochemistry, reactivity, and synthesis, while also developing skills like critical thinking. Assessment includes assignments, exercises, a midterm, and a final exam worth 60% of the grade. Course content includes fundamentals and topics such as alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, aromatics, aldehy

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CHEM1.

2: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
I. Course description:
1. Credit points: 3 ECTS
2. Time commitment:

Items Lecture Tutorial Practical Total


No. of hours 21 9 0 30
3. Prerequisites: N/A
4. Recommended background knowledge: N/A
5. Subject description:
This course is designed to help USTH’s 1st year students with understanding Organic
chemistry—a science—which began as a tentative attempt to understand the chemistry of
life. It has grown into the confident basis of vast multinational industries that feed, clothe,
and cure millions of people.
6. Objectives & Outcome:
- Students will be able to solve problems from various areas of Organic chemistry,
including stereochemistry, reactivity patterns and synthesis
- Student will also develop learning strategies, critical-thinking, and problem-solving
skills
7. Assessment/ Evaluation

Attendance +
Component Exercises Assignments Practical Midterm Final
Homeworks
Percentage
0 0 0 20 20 60
%
8. Prescribed Textbook(s): N/A
II. Course content & schedule:
1. Summary on fundamentals of organic chemistry
2. Alkanes and cycloalkanes
3. Alkenes and alkynes
4. Alcohols and ethers
5. Aromatic compounds
6. Aldehydes and ketones
7. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives
8. Phenols and aryl halides
III. Reference Literature:
[1]. Selected reading paragraphs together with presentation handouts will be sent to
students.
[2]. Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 4th edition

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