Organic chemistry is the study of the chemistry of carbon compounds.
Organic chemistry is the foundation for the pharmaceutical, fuels, and plastics industries.
It is the foundation for the disciplines of biochemistry, molecular biology and the life sciences in general. Course Description return An introduction to the chemistry of carbon compounds. Emphasis is on organic functional groups and their chemical properties, nomenclature and molecular structure. The laboratory introduces students to basic organic laboratory techniques using a discovery approach. Computers will be integrated into the lab environment and computational chemistry will be applied to problems in organic chemistry.