HBC 107 (ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FOR BIOCHEMISRY STUDENTS)
Introduction: The course is designed to provide the basic knowledge on the principles or
Organic Chemistry to Biochemistry students of the University of Nairobi.
Programme: BSc in Biochemistry
LECTURER: PROFESSOR ABIY YENESEW
OFFICE: G6 (Chemistry Department, Chiromo Campass)
ayenesew@uonbi.ac.ke;
abiyenesew@yahoo.com
TIME TABLE
Monday
Thursday
Friday
8.00-10.00 (Lecture)
14.00-17.00
(Lab)
11.00-13.00 (Lecture)
Venue: Small Lecture Theatre ( SLT)
Consultation Hours
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
16.00-17.00
16.00-17.00
16.00-17.00
Course objectives: To provide the basic knowledge in Organic Chemistry
Instructional methods (per week): 3 hours of lectures, three hours of practicals and one hour of
tutorials
COURSE EVALUATION:
• Assignments and tutorials (5 MARKS)
• CAT (10 MARKS)
• Practical (15 MARKS)
• Final Exam (70 MARKS)
RECOMMENDED BOOKS (HBC 107):
1)
Organic Chemistry by John McMurry,
Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning
2)
Organic Chemistry by F. Carry
3)
Organic Chemistry by By H. Hart, L.E.
Craine and David J.Hart, Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston, New York
4)
Organic Chemistry by T.W.G. Solomons John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York,
Chichester
5)
Organic Chemistry by Clyden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers, Oxford University
Press
COURSE OUTLINE
1. What is Organic Chemistry?
2. Carbon in the periodic table.
3. Bonding in carbon compounds – ionic bond, covalent bond and hybridization.
4. Polar Covalent Bonds: Electronegativity, dipole moment.
5. Intermolecular forces.
6. Nomenclature, isomerism in alkanes, conformational isomers, occurrence, uses, preparation
and reactions of alkanes.
7. Introduction to functional groups
8. An Overview of organic reactions: Addition, substitution, elimination, rearrangement. Basic
concepts of organic reaction mechanisms.
9. Inter-conversion of functional groups (alcohol to alkyl halide, ether, carbonyl, carboxylic acid
etc).
10 Introduction to stereochemistry: Optical isomers (stereoisomerism and enantiomerism).