Introduction to Organic Chemistry

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE 2024
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

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Unit Learning Outcomes

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1. — Understand the importance of carbon chemistry.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1.

    Explain the tetravalent bonding of carbon and its ability to bond with itself and other elements.

2. — Be able to use the accepted conventions of representing organic compounds.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1.

    Construct structural formulae for named examples of simple organic compounds, identifying structural, geometrical, and optical isomers where appropriate.

  • 2.2.

    Explain the use of IUPAC rules of nomenclature for systematically naming simple organic compounds.

  • 2.3.

    Explain the types of formulae encountered in basic organic chemistry including empirical, molecular, displayed and skeletal formulae.

3. — Understand how to classify organic compounds in homologous series.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1.

    Explain homologous series and functional groups in organic compounds.

  • 3.2.

    Use the general formulae of alkanes to predict formulae of any members of the series.

4. — Be able to carry out experiments to classify organic compounds in homologous series.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1.

    Conduct experiments to clearly distinguish between homologous series and functional groups of organic compounds. 

  • 4.2.

    Explore homologous series.