Course Content - Unit Materials

Unit 7 - Aldehydes and Ketones and Redox Reactions

Objectives:

Be able to describe the relation between oxidation and reduction reactions.
Be able to show how the reduction of alkenes leads to alkanes and the oxidation of alkanes leads to the formation of alkenes
Be able to show how the reduction of carbonyls leads to the formation of alcohols and how the oxidation of alcohols leads to the formation of aldehydes ketones.
Be able to describe how primary, secondary and tertiar alcohols lead to different reduction products.
Be able to recognize, name and predict the physical properties of aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids, relative to the other functional groups that we have studied so far.
Be able the predict the products for the oxidation of thiols.
Be able to describe the function of the redox coenzymes FAD/FADH₂ and NAD⁺/NADH.
Be able to describe the significance of metabolic pathways, and describe the sequence of reactions that converts a CH₂ into a carbonyl

Readings

Class Overheads, Fall 2015

19.-21. Oct., 2015

Homework

Chem 150 - Fall 2015