ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
- To know the most important functional groups present in the organic compounds. To understand and to be able of using the IUPAC nomenclature system.
- To be able to represent organic compounds using Lewis's structures, structural formulae and with stereochemistry (Newmanm, Fischer, perspective) and using computer applications.
- To have basic notions of stereochemistry and conformational analysis.
- To relate physical properties (melting points, boiling points, solubility in water) with molecular structure.
- To know the main methods of separation of organic substances and their practical implementation.
- To know the most relevant chemical reactions of the functional groups studied.
- To know the industrial and environmental importance of organic compounds
- To develop oral communication skills.
TOPIC 1: STRUCTURE AND NOMENCLATURA OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Representation of organic molecules. Structural isomerism. Functional groups. Resonance. Hiybridization. Polarity. Intermolecular forces. Acids and bases.
TOPIC 2: ALKANES.
Physical properties. Conformacional analysis of Alkanes and cycloalkanes. Combustion. Halogenation. Petroleum.
TOPIC 3: STEREOCHEMISTRY. Chirality. Optical activity. Absolute configuration. Fischer Projection. Stereoisomerism.
TOPIC 4: ALKENES and ALKYNES
Alkenes: Structure and industrial importance. Electrophilic Aaddition to alkenes. Oxidation. Reduction. Diels-Alder's reaction. Polimerization.
Alkynes: structure. Acidity of alkynes. Reactivity of alkynes.
TOPIC 5: AROMATIC COMPOUNDS:
Structure of benzene and aromaticity. Electrophilic aromatic substitution. Aromatic compounds: industrial importance.
TOPIC 6: HALOALKANES
Classification and importance. Nucleophilic substitution: SN1 and SN2 . Elimination: E1 and E2 .Organometallic compounds.
TOPIC 7: ALCOHOLS AND AMINES
Alcohols: classification and importance. Acid-base properties. Nucleophilic substitution with alcohols. Reactions of Alcohols with acids. Oxidation. Ethers and epoxides.
Amines: Classification and importance. Acidity and basicity of amines. Alkylation of amines and Quaternary ammonium salts.
TOPIC 8 ALDEHYDES AND KETONES
Structure and properties. Additions to the carbonyl group. Hemiacetals, acetals, imines, enamines. Alpha reactivity: aldol condensation. Oxidation and reduction. Carbohydrates.
TOPIC 9: CARBOXILIC ACIDS AND DERIVATIVES
Addition-elimination reactions. Transformation of carboxilic acids to their derivatives and interconversion of carboxilic acid derivatives.
LABORATORY:
SESSION 1: separation techniques:
a) Liquid-liquid extraction.
b) Column chromatography.
SESSION 2: Fisher esterification: ethyl acetate preparation.
SESSION 3: Preparation of polymers.
COMPUTER SESSION: use of computer applications to represent organic molecules.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
All the basic study material will be available in the Learning Management System physically or through the corresponding internet links.
HART, H.; HART, D. J.; CRAINE, L. E., Organic Chemistry: A Short Course. Ed Houghton Mifflin Compay, ISBN 9780618590735
VOLLHARDT, K. P. C.; SHORE, N. E. Organic Chemistry ", Ed W. H. Freeman, ISBN 9781429239240
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
William Reusch, Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry (free access under Creative Commons License)
Basic competences:
- CB4 Ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to an specialized audience as well as to a non-specialized audience
Specific competences - Basic Module:
- FB.4.2 Ability to understand and apply the basic knowledge of organic Chemistry in Engineering.
General competences:
- CG.3 Knowledge in basic topics and technologies. This will allow the students to learn new methods and theories to adapt to new situations.
- CG.4 Ability to solve problems with initiative, to take decisions, creativity, critical reasoning. Ability to communicate and to transmit knowledge and skills related to industrial engineering.
- CG.10 Ability to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.
Transverse competences:
- CT.1 Ability of analysis and synthesis
- CT.3 Oral and written communication in mother languages and some foreigner
- CT.4 Skills using computer applications
- CT.6 Problem solving
- CT.8 Teamwork
- CT.13 Ability to apply the knowledge in practice
- CT.16 Sensibility towards environmental topics
Course without On-Campus Instruction
Students will have access to the detailed syllabus, core and supplementary bibliography, and teaching materials from the last academic year in which the course was officially taught (2024/2025), all available through the course’s Virtual Classroom.
As this is a discontinued course (no longer offered with regular instruction), the only available teaching support consists of individual tutoring sessions, focused on addressing specific theoretical, conceptual, or practical questions. These sessions must be arranged in advance, and the assigned instructor will determine whether they take place in person or via MS Teams.
Assessment: 100% Final Examination
The final grade will be based entirely on a written exam comprising exercises similar to those used in previous years during continuous assessment.
In cases of academic dishonesty or fraudulent completion of exercises or exams, the provisions set out in the university’s Academic Performance Assessment and Grade Review Regulations will be applied.
-
-
-
Gabriel Tojo Suarez
- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814244
- gabriel.tojo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Tomas Gamasa
- Department
- Organic Chemistry
- Area
- Organic Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815760
- maria.tomas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Researcher: Ramón y Cajal
| 01.08.2026 09:15-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Aula A10 |
| 05.21.2026 09:15-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A1 |
| 07.01.2026 09:30-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A1 |