CHEMISTRY

Learning Objectives

• CHIMICA ORGANICA

  Organic compounds are milestones of the living matter. The aim of the class is to describe the structures, the features and the reactivities of the main classes of organic compounds paying particular attention to the principal organic compounds present in food. The students must acquire the knowledge of the main classes of organic compounds, must learn to write the simplest structures and discuss their properties in particular with reference to their behavior as food component. In addition the students must learn to correlate the structure of an organic compound with the resultant reactivity and the most common reaction mechanisms.

Course Structure

• CHIMICA ORGANICA

  Lectures and exercises

Detailed Course Content

• CHIMICA ORGANICA

  Chemical bond, atomic and molecular orbitals, sigma and pi bonds, resonance. Nucleophiles and electrophiles. Alkanes, cycloalkanes, isomers, stereoisomers, chirality, enantiomers, biological activity. Alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides, reactivity. Aromatic hydrocarbons, Huckel rule, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution reactions. Alcohols, phenols, ethers, thiols, polyphenols and quinones. Aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes and ketones. Aliphatic and aromatic amines. Heterocyclic compounds. Rich and poor heterocycles. Carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Lipids. Triacylglycerols. Carbohydrates. Aminoacids. Proteins. Nucleic acids.

Textbook Information

• CHIMICA ORGANICA
  1. Brown, Campbell, Farrel: Elementi di Chimica Organica con modelli molecolari, Edizione 2012, Edises, Napoli.
  2. Janice Gorzynski Smith: Fondamenti di Chimica Organica, II edizione 2014, MCGraw-Hill Education, Milano
  3. Paula Yurkanis Bruice, Elementi di chimica organica, II edizione 2017, Edises, Napoli
  4. John McMurry : Fondamenti di chimica organica, VII edizione, PICCIN Padova (Testo di consultazione)
  5. Class notes (Slides)