General and Organic Chemistry Notes

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Notes in PDF from General and Organic Chemistry of BEng in Biotechnology Semester 1

• The chemical language: comprising naming
• The electron configuration of atoms: comprising orbitals, quantum numbers, the Aufbau principle, Hund’s rule, Pauli’s principle, the construction and properties of the periodic system, ionisation energy, and electron affinity
• Chemical bonding: comprising the Lewis model, the VSEPR model, valence bond theories, hybridisation, resonance, and electronegativity
• Chemical equilibrium: comprising Le Chartelier’s principle and equilibrium constants
• Acid-base equilibrium: comprising speciation diagrams, pH, buffer systems, Brøndsted and Lewis definitions, and titration
• Redox reactions
• Bonding in and spatial structure of carbon compounds
• The IUPAC nomenclature
• Synthesis, reactivity, and physical properties of simple organic compounds studied according to functional groups (alkanes, cyclo-alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols and phenols, ethers, aromatics, aldehydes, thiols, thioethers, ketones, carboxylic acids, acid derivatives, nitriles, esters, amides, and amines)
• Reaction mechanisms and introduction to organic synthesis
• Chirality
• Spectroscopy targeted at organic identification