Organic Chemistry I (CHEM-0051)

Summer 2025 · CHEM 0051 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

Structure, bonding, conformational analysis, functional groups, and stereochemistry. Organic reactions, synthesis, and mechanisms including acid/base reactions, nucleophilic substitution and elimination, reactions of alcohols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, and amines. Tools for structure determination including nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy. Two 75-minute lectures, one recitation. One course. (Note: The laboratory course, CHEM 53, is normally taken concurrently with CHEM 51.) Prerequisites: CHEM 2 or 12.

Course codes: CHEM-0051, CHEM 0051, CHEM0051, CHEM-51, CHEM 51, CHEM51

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