CHEM 341: Heterocyclic Organic Chemistry

Chap 1: Introduction and Nomenclature

• Definition of heterocyclic chemistry and aromaticity

• Nomenclature of heterocyclic compounds (Common, IUPAC and replacement names)

Chap 2: Five-Membered Rings

• Properties, preparation, reactions and cycloaddition reactions

Chap 3: Six-Membered Rings

• Properties, preparation, and reactions.

Chap 4: Fused Rings

• Properties, preparation, and reactions.

Chap 5: Carbohydrates

• Nomenclature of sugars, main classifications, projection formulae and configuration of simple sugars

• Cyclic hemiacetals, anomerism and mutarotation, reactions of monosaccharaides, cyclic acetals and ketals, esterification, reduction and oxidation reactions, hydrazine         and osazone formation, chain extension and chain- shortening reactions

• Relative stereochemistry of monosaccharaides and molecular weight determination of oligo and polysaccharides

Chap 6: Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins

• Definitions, Protein amino acids,

• Physicochemical properties of amino acids and peptides acid–base properties.

• Preparation for amino acids and peptides

Chap 7: Lipids

• Definitions of lipids

• Classification of lipids

• Fatty Acids

• Chemical Properties