CHEM206

This course offers an introduction to basic modern organic chemistry and it will predominantly be of interest to students majoring in biology or bioinformatics who do not require the traditional two-semester organic chemistry sequence (Chem 210/212). Therefore students who do not plan on applying to medical school or graduate school can take this course instead of the two-semester organic chemistry sequence. This course will introduce students to the principles of
organic structure, nomenclature, conformational analysis, stereochemistry, functional group transformations, aromatic compounds, amino acids, and nucleic acids providing the language and theoretical foundations of organic chemistry. In addition, the course will include sections on infrared (IR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy as tools to determine chemical structure.