- Docente: Maurizio Pirini
- Credits: 2
- SSD: BIO/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Aquaculture and Ichthyopathology (cod. 0403)
Learning outcomes
Students are expected to acquire a basic knowledge of the structure and the chemical properties of the main organic compounds and of their interactions with molecules of biological interest.
Course contents
Classification of organic compounds according to theire functional group. Reagents and substrates, nucleophilic and electrophilic compounds. Main organic reactions: overview. Alkanes: properties and main reactions. Alkenes: properties and main reactions. Survey on alkynes. Inductive and mesomer effect. Stabilization by resonance. Aromatic hydrocarbons: properties and main reactions. Nucleophilic substitution reactions: types and exemples. Elimination. Alcohols and phenols: overall properties and main reactions. Ethers, thiols and thio-ethers: properties and reactions. Aldehydes and ketones: properties and reactivity of the carbonylic group, aldolic condensation. Hemiacetals and acetals, imines and Schiff bases. Carboxylic acids: properties and main reactions. Saponification. Esterification. Amines: properties and main reactions. Isomerism: position, geometrical, optical isomers. Keto-enolic tautomery. Polyfunctional compounds of biological interest. Heterocyclic compounds of biological interest.
Readings/Bibliography
1) Binaglia L.- Giardina B., Chimica e propedeutica biochimica, II Ed., McGraw-Hill
2) Graham Solomons T.W., Chimica organica , Zanichelli, Bologna
3) Notes from the lessons.
Teaching methods
In agreement with students front lessons may be accompanied by written multiple-choice and/or open answer tests carried out during the course on previously taught subjects.
Assessment methods
Learning will be checked by a final oral test. During the course, in accordance with students, students may be asked to do written multiple-choice or open-answer tests; positive results may proportionally contribute to the final mark. Students who do not perform the tests during the course or do not achieve positive results can participate to the final oral exam consisting of some questions, deepened and discussed and including brief exercises.
Teaching tools
Blackboard, transparency projector, PC, video-recorder, laboratories.
Office hours
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