2024 Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
Organic Chemistry (Functions) B
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Materials Science and Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Yoshimitsu Sagara
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- MAT.P312
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The purpose of this course is to acquire the basic knowledge of organic reactions. This course focuses on pericyclic reactions and synthetic polymers. Also, important spectroscopic methods to determine chemical structures are introduced.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the basic mechanism of organic reactions.
2) Know the reactivity of specific functional groups and the synthesis of various organic compounds.
3) Know how to perform spectroscopic measurements.
4) Understand the ways to characterize the organic compounds.
Keywords
Organic synthesis, reaction mechanism, structure determination
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Every lesson contains not only a lecture based on the textbook but also a drill or practice.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | An Overview of Organic Reactions and Introduction of Pericyclic Reactionss | Understand the kinds and mechanism of organic reactions. |
| Class 2 | Orbitals and Organic Chemistry: Pericyclic Reactions | Explain the reaction mechanism of pericyclic reactions. |
| Class 3 | Synthetic Polymers | Explain chain-growth polymerization and step-growth polymerization. |
| Class 4 | Structure Determination: Mass Spectrometry and Infrared Spectroscopy | Explain the mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy of organic compounds. |
| Class 5 | Structure Determination: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Explain the NMR spectroscopy of organic compounds. |
| Class 6 | Structure Determination: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Explain the NMR spectroscopy of organic compounds. |
| Class 7 | Conjugated Dienes and Ultraviolet Spectroscopy | Explain the properties and ultraviolet spectroscopy of conjugated dienes. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
John McMurry, Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition, First and Third Volumes, Tokyo Kagaku Dojin, 2017 (ISBN 9784807909124, 9784807909148)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
John McMurry, Organic Chemistry, 9th Edition, Second Volume, Tokyo Kagaku Dojin, 2017 (ISBN 9784807909131)
Evaluation methods and criteria
The grade is mainly evaluated based on the results of the final examination and the reports that are assigned in every lecture.
Related courses
- MAT.P211 ： Organic Chemistry (Structure-I)
- MAT.P212 ： Organic Chemistry (Structure-II)
- MAT.P213 ： Organic Chemistry (Reaction-A)
- MAT.P214 ： Organic Chemistry (Reaction-B)
- MAT.P311 ： Organic Chemistry (Functions) A
- MAT.P314 ： Organic Synthetic Chemistry A
- MAT.P315 ： Organic Synthetic Chemistry B
- MAT.P316 ： Organic Synthetic Chemistry C
Prerequisites
It is desired that students have taken Organic Chemistry (Structure-I), Organic Chemistry (Structure-II), Organic Chemistry (Reaction-A), Organic Chemistry (Reaction-B), and Organic Chemistry (Functions-A).
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
sagara.y.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp