UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Proposal Form for New or Revised Modules (MA1- version 4)
Approval information
Approval Type
Date of
Introduction/Change
New module
Discontinue module
Revised module
October 2011
If new, does this module
replace another? If so,
enter module code and
title:
If revised/discontinued,
Change to the syllabus for C700 Biochemistry students
please outline the rationale
for the changes:
Confirmation that affected
departments have been
consulted:
Yes, Life Sciences have been consulted via Kevin Moffat.
Module Summary
1. Module Code (if known)
CH161
2. Module Title
Introduction to Organic Chemistry
3. Lead department:
Chemistry
4. Name of module leader
Dr Andrew Clark
5. Level
UG:
PG:
Level 4 (Certificate)
Level 6 (Honours)
Level 7 (Masters)
Level 5 (Intermediate)
Level 8 (Doctoral)
See Guidance Notes for relationship to years of study
6. Credit value(s) (CATS)
18 CATS and 24 CATS
7. Principal Module Aims
The aim of this module is to provide students with a basic understanding
of organic chemistry. As such it provides a fundamental look at organic
chemical bonding, structure, reactivity, mechanism and synthesis of
simple functional groups (18 CATS and 24 CATS). Later parts of the
module apply an understanding of organic chemistry to the synthesis and
the chemistry of functional groups containing the carbonyl functional
group (18 CATS and 24 CATS) and to two further areas: the structure,
properties and reactivities of molecules of biological importance and of
organic macromolecules including synthetic polymers (24 CATS). The
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Module Summary
content of this module will be assumed in ALL subsequent Chemistry
modules. It provides all entering first years with a common foundational
knowledge of organic chemistry.
This will be achieved by a range of teaching methods, primarily lectures
and tutorials, but also student centered learning:-including directed
reading, problems classes and workshops, set exercises, and
computational exercises
8. Contact Hours
(summary)
Lectures 50hrs in total (39 for 18 CATS)
Workshops 4hrs in total (2 for 18 CATS)
Tutorials 7hrs in total (5 for 18 CATS)
Non Assessed Class Test 1hr (1 for 18 and 24 CATS)
9. Assessment methods
(summary)
100 Examination 3hrs (2 hrs for 18 CATS)
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Module Context
10. Please list all departments involved in the teaching of this module. If taught by more than
one department, please indicate percentage split.
Chemistry 100%
11. Availability of module
Degree Code
Title
F100
F101
F105
F106
F107
F108
F121
Chemistry BSc
Chemistry BSc with Intercalated Year
Chemistry MChem
Chemistry MChem with Prof Experience
Chemistry MChem with Intercalated Year
Chemistry MChem with Industrial Training
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry BSc
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry BSc
with Intercalated Year
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry
MChem
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry
MChem with Prof Experience
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry
MChem with Intercalated Year
Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry
MChem with Industrial Training
Chemistry with Management BSc
Chemistry with Management BSc with
Intercalated Year
Biomedicinal Chemistry BSc
Biomedicinal Chemistry BSc with
Intercalated Year
Chemical Biology MChem
Chemical Biology MChem with Intercalated
Year
Biochemistry BSc
F122
F125
F126
F127
F128
F1N1
F1N2
BF91
B9F1
FC11
F1C1
C700
Study Year
C/OC/
A/B/C
Credits
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
24 CATS
24 CATS
24 CATS
24 CATS
24 CATS
24 CATS
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
24 CATS
1
C
18 CATS
18/24
CATS
Visiting Students
O
12. Minimum number of registered students required for module to run
10
13. Pre- and Post-Requisite Modules
Post-Requisite Modules
CH264 Organic Chemistry II
CH248 Organic Synthesis
CH242 Polymer Chemistry
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Module Context
CH269 Introduction to Biological and Medicinal Chemistry
Module Content and Teaching
14. Teaching and Learning Activities
Lectures
Workshops
50hrs in total (39 for 18 CATS)
4hrs in total (2 for 18 CATS)
Tutorials
Laboratory sessions
Total contact hours
Module duration (weeks)
Other activity
7hrs in total (5 for 18 CATS)
(please describe): e.g.
distance-learning, intensive
weekend teaching etc.
61hrs in total (46hrs for 18 CATS)
23 weeks (17 weeks for 18 CATS)
1hr Non Assessed Class Test (also for 18 CATS)
175hrs of Self Study/Revision/Directed Reading (134hrs for 18
CATS)
15. Assessment Method (Standard)
Type of assessment
Examinations
Assessed
essays/coursework
Other formal assessment
Length
3 Hours (2 Hours for 18 CATS)
Words
% weighting
100%
16. Methods for providing feedback on assessment.
Marks for Examination to be provided via Personal Tutor.
17. Outline Syllabus
1) Drawing of organic structures, nomenclature and functional groups. Organic chemical structures,
e.g. orbitals, shape, hybridisation, stereochemistry, isomerism
2) Cation/Anion stability, resonance, Acidity, basicity, pKa
3) Mechanism and curly arrows, electrophiles, nucleophiles, radicals
4) Radical stability, mechanism
5) Acidity, free energy diagrams, reaction profiles
6) Substitution mechanisms, SN1, SN2
7) Addition reactions
8) Elimination reactions and chemistry of alkenes and alkynes
9) Chemistry of alcohols, ethers, amines, oxidation and reduction
10) Aromatic electrophilic substitution
11) Carbonyl chemistry, addition, substitution
12) Hydrolysis reactions
13) Grignards, Alkyl lithiums, conjugate addtions
14) Carbonyl enolate chemistry
15) Claisen condensations, aldol condensation, mannuch reactions
16) 1,3-Dicarbonyl compounds and reactions
17) Biomolecules, aminoacids, peptides, proteins
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Module Content and Teaching
18) Biomolecules, DNA, RNA
19) Lipids, fatty acid synthesis, detergents
20) Macromolecules, synthetic polymers, addition polymerisation, condensation polymerisation
Topics 1-16 are covered in the 18 CATS module and topics 1-20 are covered in the 24 CATS module
18. Illustrative Bibliography
Essential Text (required)
Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, 6th Edition, Peter Sykes, Longman
Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers, Organic Chemistry, Oxford 2001
19. Learning outcomes
Successful completion of the module leads to the learning outcomes. The learning outcomes identify the
knowledge, skills and attributes developed by the module.
Learning Outcomes should be presented in the format ”By the end of the module students should be able
to...” using the table at the end of the module approval form:
Resources
20. List any additional requirements and indicate the outcome of any discussions about these.
Approval
21. Module leader’s
signature
Dr Andrew Clark
22. Date of approval
21st April 2011
23. Name of Approving
Committee (include minute
reference if applicable)
LTC
24. Chair of Committee’s
signature
Prof Rob Deeth (on behalf of Dr Andrew Clark)
25. Head of Department(s)
Signature
Prof Mike Shipman
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Examination Information
A1. Name of examiner (if
different from module
leader)
A2. Indicate all available methods of assessment in the table below
% Examined
% Assessed by other methods
100
Length of examination paper
3hrs/2hrs
A3. Will this module be examined together with any other module (sectioned paper)? If so,
please give details below.
A4. How many papers will
the module be examined
by?
A5. When would you wish
the exam take place (e.g.
Jan, April, Summer)?
1 paper
2 papers
Summer
A6. Is reading time
required?
Yes
No
A7. Please specify any special exam timetable arrangements.
A8. Stationery requirements
No. of Answer books?
4
Graph paper?
no
Calculator?
yes
Any other special
stationery requirements
(e.g. Data books, tables
etc)?
Periodic table and data sheet
A9. Type of examination paper
Seen?
Yes
No
Open Book?
Yes
No
Restricted?
Yes
No
If restricted, please provide
a list of permitted texts:
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
(By the end of the module the student should be able
to....)
Which teaching and learning methods
enable students to achieve this learning
outcome?
(reference activities in section 15)
Which summative assessment method(s) will
measure the achievement of this learning
outcome?
(reference activities in section 16)
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations.
Non assessed class test
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
Demonstrate an understanding of the structure, shape,
properties and reactivity of organic molecules including
their acidity, mechanisms and reactions
(18 and 24 CATS)
Demonstrate an understanding and awareness of different
reactions in organic chemistry and why and how they take
place.
Non assessed class test
Have a basic understanding of mechanisms and their
stereochemical consequences of nucleophilic substitution,
elimination, electrophilic additions/substitutions, oxidations
and reduction.
(18 and 24 CATS)
Have a basic understanding of mechanisms carbonyl and
enolate chemistry
(18 and 24 CATS)
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
(By the end of the module the student should be able
to....)
Use their knowledge of general mechanism and reactivity to
postulate mechanisms of organic reactions using curly
arrows
(18 and 24 CATS)
Which teaching and learning methods
enable students to achieve this learning
outcome?
(reference activities in section 15)
Which summative assessment method(s) will
measure the achievement of this learning
outcome?
(reference activities in section 16)
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
Non assessed class test
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Use their knowledge to be able to design short syntheses of
organic molecules
(18 and 24 CATS)
Understand the roles of lipids, aminoacids, and DNA in
biological chemistry and their structure, reactivity, synthesis
and physical properties.
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
Lectures, tutorials, workshops, directed reading
Formative assessment by set and marked work for
tutorials and workshops, summative assessment by
examinations
Demonstrate a knowledge of fatty acid biosynthesis
(24 CATS)
Understand the basic principles of macromolecules,
including the structure, reactivity and properties of
synthetic and natural polymers.
(24 CATS)
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