Lecture 5 objectives and skills
- Recognize the different hydrocarbon families and functional groups, distinguish between primary, secondary and tertiary, as appropriate
- Determine units of unsaturation for any organic compound
- Define electronegativity and polar covalent bonds
- Determine whether a given molecule is polar or non-polar
- Convert structures to names or names to structures for: alkanes, alkyl halides, alcohols, alkenes, alkynes and cyclic/bicyclic structures
- Understand the basics of IR spectroscopy
- Rationalize the intensity and frequency of different IR absorption bands
- Assign key IR absorption bands to specific types of bonds (functional groups)
- Ability to recognize and work with patterns
- Application of standard methods
- Comparisons of fine details
- Connection of invisible, microscopic properties to visible, macroscopic observations
