Course Level:
Second Year
Academic Year:
2020/2021
The recommended text for CHEM 233 is Organic Chemistry, 3rd Edition, by David Klein. Students may also use the 2nd edition. This text is packaged with a solutions manual at the UBC Bookstore. You may choose a hole-punched unbound "binder ready" version or a hard cover version of the package. A detailed reading list will be posted on the course 'Canvas' site (http://canvas.ubc.ca).
Brief Course Outline
- Structure and bonding (representing organic structures, functional groups, nomenclature, valence bond theory, stereochemistry, aromaticity)
- Intermolecular forces
- Acidity/basicity
- Introduction to reaction mechanisms
- Nucleophilic substitution reactions (SN2 and SN1)
- 1,2-Elimination reactions (E2 and E1)
- Electrophilic addition to alkenes
- Reduction and oxidation reactions
- Nucleophilic addition to aldehydes and ketones
- Carbohydrates
- Nucleophilic acyl substitution of carboxylic acids and their derivatives
- Decarboxylation