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Organic Chemistry - GAF411
Title: Organic Chemistry
Guaranteed by: Department of Organic And Bioorganic Chemistry (16-16120)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:28/20, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Milan Pour, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : GAF390, GAF426
Incompatibility : GAF133, GAF292, GAF299
Interchangeability : GAF133, GAF285, GAF292, GAF299
Is interchangeable with: GAF299, GAF285
Annotation -
Preparatory discipline for profile subjects taught at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Themes: System of organic compounds: hydrocarbons, halogen derivatives, alcohols, phenols, ethers, amines, sulfur and silicon compounds, carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, substituted carboxylic acids and their derivatives, carbonic acid derivatives, organometallic compounds.
Last update: GAF299\5002930 (13.10.2025)
Course completion requirements -

The condition to obtain the credit is 100% attendance at the seminars and at least 60% points from tests written during the semester or from credit test. Exam has written test (minimum 60% points) and oral part.

2 Exam Questions: 

Drug formula, its name, physical and chemical properties

System: 

1.    Alkanes, cycloalkanes, nomenclature, synthesis, reactivity

 

2.     Alkenes, nomenclature, preparation (Zaitsev´s rule), reactivity (Markovnikov´s rule and anti-Markovnikov´s rule), reactivity

 

3.    Dienes, polyenes, Diels-Alder reaction, Alkynes, nomenclature, preparation and reactivity

 

4.    Benzene, aromaticity of compounds, electrophilic aromatic substitution, effect of substituents on electrophilic aromatic substitution

 

5.    Nucleophilic aromatic substitution.

 

6.    Alkylhalides, nomenclature, preparation, reactivity of halogenalkanes (substitution, elimination, comparison with arylhalogenates)

 

7.    Alcohols, ethers, nomenclature, preparation, reactivity

 

8.    Aldehydes, ketones, nomenclature, synthesis, reactivity

 

9.     Reaction of aldehydes and ketones with N-bases, O-bases and S-bases, Haloform reaction, oxidation reduction of carbonyl compounds

 

10. Reactivity of carbonyl compounds with C-H acids, Aldol and Crossed Aldol reactions (α-carbon)

 

11. Carboxylic acids, nomenclature, preparation and their reactivity

 

12. Acylchlorides, nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity

 

13. Anhydrides and esters, nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity

 

14.Amides and nitriles, nomenclature, synthesis and their reactivity

 

15. Reactivity of benzenediazonium salts, azo-coupling reactions of diazonium salts with activated aromatic compounds

 

16. Reactivity of a,b-unsaturated carbonyl compounds

 

17. Oxidations

 

18. Reductions

 

19. Molecular rearrangements

 

20. Addition polymers

 

21. Condensation polymers

 

22. Organometallic compounds - preparation, reactivity

 

23. Amines, nomenclature, synthesis, reactivity

 

24. Sulphur containing compounds

 

25. Heterocyclic amines

 

26. b-Dicarbonyl compounds and their reactivity (The Claisen condensation, Malonic ester synthesis, Knoevenagel condensation, Michael addition, Mannich reaction)

 

27. Phenols - synthesis, reactivity

 

28.Amino acids, nomenclature, preparation, reactivity

 

Last update: GAF299\5002930 (13.10.2025)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • McMurry, Susan McMurry, John. Study guide & student solutions manual for John McMurry's Organic chemistry. Belmont: Thomson-Brooks/Cole, 2008, 900 s. ISBN 978-0-495-11268-6.

Last update: Pour Milan, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (13.10.2025)
Syllabus -

System of organic compounds

Alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, polyenes, alkynes, aromates, halogen derivatives, alcohols, phenols, ethers, amines, organic compounds of sulphur and silicon, carbonyl compounds and their reactivity, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, acylchlorides, anhydrides, esters, amides, nitriles, amino acids, organometallic compounds, heterocyclic compounds.

Last update: GAF299\5002930 (13.10.2025)
Learning outcomes

  

Workplace: Department of Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Charles University, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové

 

Course title: GAF299 Organic Chemistry II

 

General learning Outcomes

 

A.  Prerequisite: Skills required from Organic Chemistry I:

·         Find and name all functional groups in the drug formula or find the specified functional group in the drug formula

·         Find and name all heterocycles in the drug formula and determine which heteroatom is present in the ring

·         Find the stereocentres in the given structure and discuss the maximum number of stereoisomers

·         Identify the aromatic rings in the given molecule and explain

·         Discuss the spatial arrangement of rings in a given molecule

·         Predict the acid-base properties of a given compound; comment on the acidity or basicity of specific functional groups (e.g., discuss the basicity of various nitrogen functional groups)

·         Predict the approximate aqueous solubility of a given compound; discuss the contributions of individual functional groups or structural fragments to aqueous solubility

·         Discuss ways to increase the solubility of a given substance in water (using acid-base reactions)

 

B.  By the end of the module, students should be able to…..

·         Write reaction schemes for the preparation of a given product from a given reactant(s) (the synthesis may have more than one step).

·         Write a detailed mechanism for the reaction of a given reactant(s) with a given reagent (under given conditions).

·         Explain the course of a given reaction using resonance structures.

·         Explain the influence of inductive or mesomeric effects on the course of a given reaction or the reactivity of a given functional group.

·         Decide whether a given compound will react with a given reagent and what, if anything, will be produced.

·         Suggest an appropriate reagent to achieve a specified reaction.

·         Select an appropriate reactant that can be used for a specified reaction.

·         Describe and explain the similarities and differences between the preparations of two given compounds.

·         Complete the formulae of unknown substances A, B, C in a given reaction scheme.

·         Decide whether a given reaction will take place.

·         Classify a given reaction as an addition, elimination, substitution or rearrangement.

·         Identify the electrophile/nucleophile in a given reaction.

 

 

For details of the module syllabus, see the corresponding content document.

Last update: GAF299\5002930 (13.10.2025)
 
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