ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Organic compounds are milestones of the living matter. The aim of the class is to describe the structures, the features and the reactivities of the main classes of organic compounds paying particular attention to the principal organic compounds present in food. The students must acquire the knowledge of the main classes of organic compounds, must learn to write the simplest structures and discuss their properties. In addition the students must learn to correlate the structure of an organic compound with the resultant reactivity and the most common reaction mechanisms.

Lectures and exercises

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Atomic and molecular orbitals. Carbon atom chemical bonds, sigma and pi bonds, resonance. Nucleophiles and electrophiles. Alkanes, cycloalkanes, isomers, stereoisomers, chirality, enantiomers, biological activity. Alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, reactivity. Aromatic hydrocarbons, Huckel rule, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution reactions. Alcohols, phenols, ethers, thiols, polyphenols and quinones. Aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes and ketones. Aliphatic and aromatic amines. Heterocyclic compounds. Rich and poor heterocycles. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Lipids. Triacylglycerols. Carbohydrates. Aminoacids. Proteins. Nucleic acids.

1. W.H.Brown, M.K.Campbell, S.O. Farrel: Elementi di Chimica Organica con modelli molecolari, Edizione II/2018, Edises, Napoli.
2. W.H.Brown, B.L. Iverson, E.V.Anslyn. C.S.Foote: Chimica Organica, Quinta Edizione, Edises, Napoli.
3. Janice Gorzynski Smith: Fondamenti di Chimica Organica, II edizione 2014, MCGraw-Hill Education, Milano
4. Paula Yurkanis Bruice, Elementi di chimica organica, II edizione 2017, Edises, Napol
5. Class notes (Slides)