Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
KEM.340
Organic Chemistry 2, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 2 (21.10.2024–31.12.2024)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Course code
KEM.340Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Alexander EfimovResponsible organisation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Environmental Engineering and Chemistry Studies 100 %
Core content
- Intermediate level organic chemistry course
- Electrophilic addition reactions, stereochemistry, electron delocalization
- Substitution and elimination reactions
- Organometallic compounds
- Chemistry of carboxylic acids and their derivatives
- Chemistry of carbonyl compounds
- Chemistry of aromatic compounds
- Introduction to heterocyclic compounds
- Reaction mechanisms
- Regioselectivity, stereoselectivity, stereospecificity of reactions
- Acid and base catalysis
- Reactivity: electronic effects, steric hindrance
- Interconversion of functional group
- Multistep synthesis and retrosynthetic analysis
- Catalysts
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Compulsory prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
26.08.2024 – 16.10.2024
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)