2025-2026 Academic Catalog

CHM-203 Organic Chemistry I

This course is the first semester of a two-semester organic chemistry sequence with laboratory. It is required for science/engineering majors and pre-professional students. The course includes alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and alkyl halides, with an emphasis on their nomenclature, preparations, reactions, kinetics, and stereochemistry. Reaction mechanisms are emphasized. An introduction to spectroscopy and chromatography is included.

Credits

4 credits

Prerequisite

Take CHM-103 and CHM-104.

Corequisite

Take CHM-203L.

Semesters Offered

Fall Only, All Years