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"This course is very great and is helpful not only for students but also for all chemistry professors. This course is the best platform for all organic chemistry learners. The language is very easy. So that, each and every student can understand all the concepts easily. Discussion forum is also a best platform for us to ask any query about any concept.
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Also,thanks to SWAYAM for conducting such type of course for all chemistry learners." ---- Ketaki, One of the topper from the course July-2019.
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Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction to stereochemistry
Conformational analysis of open chain systems
Week 2
Conformational analysis of cyclic systems
Symmetry elements, Point group analysis
Stereochemical conventions
Week 3
Stereogenicity, Topicity
ORD and CD, Axial halo ketone rule, Octant Rule
Week 4
Stereochemical reactions
Reactions involving stereo centres
Crams Rule, Felkin-Anh model, Prelog rules
Week 5
Aromaticity, Aromatic stabilization energy, Hückel MO, Musulin-Frost diagram
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), Polyacenes, Annulene
Week 6
Aromatic Electrophilic substitutions
Aromatic Nucleophilic substitutions
Ipso-cine-tele substitution
Week 7
Reaction dynamics, Hammond postulate
Linear free energy relationship, Hammett equation
Week 8
Yukawa Tsuno equation, Swain-Lupton equation, Grunwald–Winstein equation, Taft equation
Curtin-Hammett principle, Winstein-Holness equation
Carbocation, Part 1: Generation, Structure and Geometry
Week 9
Carbocation, Part 2: Stabilisation of carbocation, Reactions
Carbocation, Rearrangement 1: No Change in carbon skeleton, Change in carbon skeleton
Carbocation, Rearrangement 2: involvement of other electron deficient terminus, Anchimeric assistance
Week 10
Carbanions: pKa and its significance
Carbanions: Hard and Soft Acid and Base principle
Carbanions: Structure, Formation, Stability, Reactivity
Week 11
Carbanion reactions: Acyl Anions, Benzoin condensation, Umpolung-inversion of reactivity
Free radical 1: Formation, Structure, Stability
Week 12
Free radical 2: Stability, Reactivity
Free radical 3: Reactions: Addition, atom abstraction, disproportionation, cyclisation
Week 13
Free radical 4: Reactions: Fenton, Kolbe, Bouveault-Blanc, Giese, Hofmann-Loffler, Birch, Barton-McCombie, Sandmeyer, Barton decarboxylation
Carbene, Nitrene: Generation, Structure, Reactivity
Week 14
Carbonyl addition reaction
Enol and enolate formation and reactions
Enamines formation and reactions
Week 15
Enol ethers formation and reactions, Mukaiyama-Aldol reaction
Sharpless epoxidation, Click reaction, Diels-Alder reaction- Scope and mechanism
Exam
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry Reactions, Mechanisms and Structure 5th Ed. Michael B. Smith, Jerry March, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.
F. A. Carey: Organic Chemistry, 5th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Peter Sykes, A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, 6th Ed, John Wiley and Sons. Inc, New York, 1986.
J. Clayden, N. Greeves, S. Warren, Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012.
F. A. Carey and R. J. Sundberg, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part A & B, 5th Ed., Springer, New York, 2007.
Thomas H. Lowry and Kathleen Schueller Richardson, Mechanism and theory in Organic Chemistry, Harper& Row, Publishers, 1976.
Paula Yurkanis Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 4th Ed. Prentice Hall, 2003.
Arvi Rauk, Orbital Interaction Theory of Organic Chemistry, 2nd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.
D. Nasipuri, Stereochemistry of organic compounds, Principles and Applications, 3rd Ed. New Age International Publishers, 2018.
P. S. Kalsi, Stereochemistry: Conformation and Mechanism, 9th Ed, New Age International (P) Ltd., 2017.
Ernest L. Eliel, Samuel H. Wilen, Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds, Wiley India Ed, 2008.
I. L. Finar, Organic Chemistry, Volume 2: Stereochemistry and The Chemistry of Natural Products, Chapter 2, 5th Ed, Pearson Education India, 1956.
Those who would like learn more about organic chemistry at a UG level can register for the course at
Basic organic chemistry
Following are the other courses developed by Dr. Balaji which are available online for organic chemistry students with the support from SWAYAM Prabha TV Channel (CH15), IIT-M.
Pharmaceutical Organic chemistry 3
Organic chemistry 3
Dr. Balaji is working as Associate Professor at School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His area of specialization includes Green chemistry, synthetic chemistry, drug development, nano-chemistry, teaching and learning methodologies. He received his Ph.D in organic Chemistry from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, affiliated to then Pune University. He spent three years as a Center of Excellence Foreign Visiting researcher at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He then worked as Postdoctoral fellow and Research fellow (faculty track position) at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. He has published many research publications (including a book) and holds four Indian patents. The research contribution from his laboratory had appeared in a few Journal cover pages (Chemical Communication, Nuclear Medicine and Biology) and appeared in local print and electronic media. He got his MBA from Anna University with Technology management as specialization.
He has been regularly contributing as a resource person for various Faculty development program to School, College and University faculty members. He had conducted more than 100 sessions. So far he had trained over 5000 Faculty members. Currently, he is coordinating with IIT-Madras in creating e-contents (home based recording) for SWAYAM Prabha TV channels. So far around 700 hrs e-learning contents had been created for the benefit of students. Prior to this Dr. Balaji served as subject matter expert/external Academic consultant to e-VidyaBharati/ ArogyaBharati project of Ministry of External affairs, Government of India in collaboration with National Institute for Smart Governance.
“30 Marks will be allocated for Internal Assessment and 70 Marks will be allocated for external proctored examination”
There will be weekly graded evaluation. To get a certificate, you have to attempt weekly graded crossword puzzle 30% weight (best 5 out of 15 graded puzzle) and final proctored examination 70% weight. A 40 % pass individually (weekly assessment and proctored examination) is required to receive the certificate.
Best of 5 out of 15 graded quizzes/crossword puzzles will be considered for internal evaluation. The selection of 5 best quizzes will be spread over the entire 15 weeks. We will select 2 best quizzes from Week 1 to 5, another two from Week 6-10 and last one from Week 11-15.
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