Introduction to Organic Chemistry

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Overview

Framework:
Access to HE
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
QU006603
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Grade Descriptors

  • GD2-Application of knowledge
  • GD3-Application of skills
  • GD7-Quality

Unit Learning Outcomes

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

Understand how to use the accepted conventions of representing organic compounds.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1

    Draw structural formulae.

  • 2.2
    Identify and explain simple molecules using the IUPAC system.
  • 2.3
    Explain the types of isomerism (skeletal, positional geometric and optical).
3

Understand how to classify organic compounds in homologous series.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Define and explain homologous series and conduct associated experiments.
  • 3.2
    Recognise and explain general formulae of alkanes.
  • 3.3
    Identify and explain functional groups and investigate two examples experimentally.