General organic chemistry

Representation and stereochemistry


Nomenclature of organic compounds


Electronic effects in molecules


Introduction to reactivity in organic chemistry


Spectroscopic characterization methods Principle and use of 1H NMR

Representation and stereochemistry


Representation of molecules: perspective, Cram, Fischer, Newman


Conformational and configurational stereoisomerism (conformation of carbon chains and rings, chirality, enantiomerism, diastereoisomerism, CIP rules, geometric stereoisomerism, chirality and rotatory power)




Nomenclature of organic compounds


Notion of functional group


Basic principles of hydrocarbon nomenclature


Basic principles of monofunctional compound nomenclature (alcohols, ethers, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters).




Electronic effects in molecules


Bond polarization, conjugated molecules


Inductive and mesomeric effects




Introduction to reactivity in organic chemistry


Types of reagents : electrophile, nucleophile, Lewis acid and base


Link between electronic and steric effects and reactivity


Reaction intermediates (carbocations, carbanions, radicals)


Reaction profile, kinetic control, thermodynamic control, Hammond's postulate


Kinetic control and the "frontier orbitals" approach




Spectroscopic characterization methods Principle and use of 1H NMR


Principle and use of IR spectroscopy