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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
BONDING AND STEREOCHEMISTRY 9 Atoms Electrons and orbitals – Covalent Bonds – Octet rule – Polar covalent Bonds -Electronegativity- formal charge – Resonance Acids and Bases – Arrhenius and Bronsted Lowry Theories – Acid Base equilibria – SP3 hybridization – Conformation analysis ethane, butane and cyclohexane – Cis- trans isomerism. Stereochemical activity around the tetrahedral carbon -optical activity – Conformation of the peptide bond.
Unit II
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Unit III
KINETICS AND MECHANISM 9 Kinetic method – Rate law and mechanism – Transition states- Intermediates – Trapping of intermediates – Microscopic reversibility – Kinetic and thermodynamic reversibility – Isotopes for detecting intermediates. Primary and secondary isotopes – the Arrhenius equation Eyring equation – AG, AS, AH, Thermodynamics of coupled reactions.
Unit IV
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Unit V
BIOORGANIC REACTIONS 9 Timing of Bond formation and fission – Acyl group transfer – C-C bond formation and fission -Catalysis of proton transfer reactions – Transfer of hydride ion – Alkyl group. Transfer – Terpene biosynthesis – Merrifield state peptide synthesis – Sanger method for peptide and DNA sequencing
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Carey, Francis A. Organic Chemistry. VIIth Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2009.
- Page, M.I. and Andrew Williams Organic and Bio-organic Mechanisms. Pearson, 2010.
Reference Books:
- Dugas, Hermann Bioorganic Chemistry: A Chemical Approach to Enzyme Action 3rd Edition, Springer, 2003
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