4.00 Credits
This is the last of a two-semester science course for science majors and pre-professional students. The course is a systematic study of the fundamental principles of organic?chemistry with interpretation of structure and properties based upon modern atomic and molecular theory. Topics include aromatic hydrocarbons and heterocyclic compounds, aromatic substitutions and eliminations, carbonyl chemistry, reductions and oxidations of carbon-containing species, retrosynthetic analysis, spectroscopy, and pericyclic, radical, and polymeric reactivity.�