COURSE PORTFOLIO
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
COURSE NAME : Organic chemistry for non-chemistry students
COURSE NUMBER : CHEM 230
SEMESTER/YEAR : 1st Semester/ 1434-1435H
COURSE SYLLABUS
Instructor Information
Name of the instructor: Zahra Al-amshany
Office location: Building / 07/ Room / 174
Office hours U, M,R., 8 — 9 , W lab 8 - 11.
; E-mail: zalamshany@hotmail.com
Course Objectives
This course aims to give the theoretical and experimental basis of organic chemistry for
non-chemistry students.
Expectation from students ; students are expected to share efficiently during
the class by asking the questions ,and they are also welcomed to open or start
discussion in the course related topics . They also expected to read and
understand English to understand the terminology used in that course. They
must attend the lectures and the lab sessions regularly to be able to make
link between them.
Learning Resources
Main text books :
" Organic chemistry, by Graham Solomons TW, Craig B Fryhle, 8th ed., 2007.
Course Requirements and Grading
Two exams: one quiz15 Marks & midterm exam 15 Marks.
Attendance and participation: 5 Marks.
Lab: 25 Marks ---10 degree, classified on 10 lab session ,1degree for each arranged on the
(attendance, wearing the lab coat, writing the result in the lab note book and the bench and the
equipments cleaning after work )
Final : 40 Marks
The student should study hard to gain the fundamentals of the course.
Attendance at the exact time of lectures and high degree of commitments is required.
High concentration and side talking is forbidden.
Effective participation of students during the lectures and this evaluated by a degree.
 Commitments by the time of quizzes and exams, and acceptable excuse must be given in case of
absence
More than 25% absence from the lectures will be prohibited from the final exam.
Mobiles must kept silent during the lecture
Mainly the students follow these rules but still few of them are not.
Course Schedule Model
(meeting three times a week)
Week
#
1
2
3
Date
Topic
Lec.1
Introduction to the course
Lec.2
Atomic structure &M.O.T
Lec.3
Hybridization of atomic orbitals
Lec.4
Classification of organic compounds
Lec.5
Nomenclature of alkanes
Lec.6
Nomenclature of alkenes, alkynes and
aromatic hydrocarbons
Lec.7
Nomenclature of halogen compounds
,alcohols,phenols and ethers
Reading
Assignment
What is Due?
Buy Book 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Homework
assignment #1
Homework
assignment #2
Lec.8
Lec.9
Lec.10
Nomenclature of carbonyl
compounds,carboxylic acids and its
derivatives
Nomenclature of amines and organic
sulpher compounds
Structural isomerism
Chapter 3
Conformational isomerism
4
5
Lec.11
Lec.12
Configurational isomerism
Lec.13
Optical isomerism
Homework
assignment #3
Lec.14
Quiz 1
Lec.15
Types of organic reactions and reactions of
alkanes
Chapter 4
6
7
8
9
Lec.16
Reactions of alkenes
Lec.17
Reactions of alkenes and alkynes
Lec.18
Reaction of aromatic hydrocarbons
Lec.19
Reaction of halogen compounds
Lec.20
Reaction of halogen compounds
Lec.21
Reactions of alcohols and phenols
Lec.22
Reactions of ether and carbonyl compounds
Lec.23
Reactions of carbonyl compounds
Lec.24
Reactions of carboxylic acids
Lec.25
Reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives
Lec.26
Reactions of amines
Lec.27
Reactions of amines
Lec.28
Heterocyclic compounds
Lec.29
Heterocyclic compounds
10
Homework
assignment #4
Homework
assignment #5
Chapter 5
Homework
assignment #6
11
Lec.30
Classification of carbohydrates
Lec.31
The cyclic structure of monosaccharides
Lec.32
Reactions of monosaccharides
Lec.33
Reactions of monoaccharides
Lec.34
Structure of oligo and polysaccharides
Chapter 6
Classification of amino acids
12
Lec.35
Chapter 7
Optical activity
Lec.36
13
14
15
Reactions of amino acids
Lec.37
Reactions of amino acids
Lec.38
Quiz2
Lec.39
Electric migration and separation of amino
acids
Lec.40
Peptides and proteins
Lec.41
Terpenes
Lec.42
Final revision
Report
Final Exam
Practical Sessions Schedule Model
Lab.
#
Date
Exp/Practical title
Reading
Assignment
What is Due?
Safety & Regulations
Buy the lab note.
1
2
3
Separation Techniques (1)
Separation Techniques (2) +
hydrocarbons
Alcohols
4
Carbonyl compounds
5
Liquid carboxylic acids +
Scheme 1
6
Midterm Exam
7
Solid carboxylic acids
8
Scientific conference
9
Phenols
10
Scheme 1
11
Scheme 2
12
13
-----------------------Final Exam