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Pre-professional career based curriculum

CH 331, CH 332 and CH 337 constitute the sophomore organic chemistry sequence for pre-professional students (medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy and other health professions), chemical engineering students and other students not majoring in chemistry who require a year of organic chemistry. The courses in the sequence must be taken in order. One year of college chemistry is required before enrollment, including our online General Chemistry sequence. CH 130 does not meet the prerequisites for this course. View All Chemistry Courses Ecampus offers online and Course Schedule for more details on when these courses are offered.

CH 331 Organic Chemistry (4)

Topics include: Review of general chemistry; acids and bases; alkanes and cycloalkanes; stereochemistry; alkenes; alkynes and alkyl halides. See course Prerequisites and Overrides for 2010/2011.

CH 332 Organic Chemistry (4)

Topics include: Alcohols and ethers; aldehydes and ketones; carbohydrates; carboxylic acids and esters; aromaticity; electrophilic aromatic substitution; and spectroscopy (IR and NMR). See course Prerequisites and Overrides for 2010/2011.

CH 337 Organic Chemistry Laboratory (4)

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The laboratory component of the course completes the sophomore chemistry sequence for pre-professional students in health fields and chemical engineering.

Lecture topics include: Enol and enolate chemistry; radical chemistry; chemistry of amines and amides; amino acids, peptides and proteins.

Laboratory topics include: Isolation of trimyristin from nutmeg; synthesis of salicylic acid; distillation of a methanol/water mixture; isolation of cuminaldehyde from cumin seeds; synthesis of E,E-dibenzalacetone; synthesis of benzoic acid; isolation of lactose from non-fat milk; isolation of green-leaf pigments from spinach; dehydration of 2-butanol; dehydrohalogenation of 2-bromobutane; associated laboratory techniques.

CH 337 is offered as a hybrid online/on-campus format in a six-week session during summer term 2011 (June 20 to July 29; weeks 1-2 and 5-6 are online; weeks 3-4 are on-site on the OSU campus). CH 337 can also be completed in a short three-week session in an on-campus format during summer term 2011. See course Prerequisites and Overrides for 2010/2011. Visit OSU Housing and Dining Services to find out more information on lodging on campus during Summer Session.

*Specific topics are subject to change in the final syllabus.