21CHY316 FUNCTIONAL GROUPS, HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS AND NATURAL PRODUCTS Chemistry Paper – VIII-
Unit I-
Alcohols and Phenols: Monohydric alcohols: Nomenclature, methods of formation (reduction of aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and esters), Hydrogen bonding, Acidic nature. Reactions of alcohols (oxidation, esterification, dehydration), Dihydric alcohols: Nomenclature, methods of formation (from alkenes and alkyl dihalides), chemical reactions of vicinal glycols – oxidative cleavage [Pb(OAc)4 and HIO4] and Pinacolpinacolone rearrangement, Trihydric alcohols: Nomenclature and methods of formation (from alkenes and alkenals), chemical reactions of glycerol (with nitric acid, oxalic acid and HI), Phenols: Nomenclature, structure and bonding, Preparation of phenol, resorcinol and 1 and 2- naphthols (one method each), Physical properties and acidic character of phenol, Comparative acidic strengths of alcohols and phenols, resonance stabilization of phenoxide ion. Reactions of phenols: Electrophilic aromatic substitution, acylation and carboxylation, Mechanisms of Fries rearrangement, Claisen rearrangement, Gatterman synthesis, Houben-Hoesch reaction, Lederer-Manasse reaction and ReimerTiemann reaction.
Unit II-
Carbonyl Compounds: Aldehydes and Ketones: Synthesis of aldehydes and ketones with particular reference to the synthesis of aldehydes from acid chlorides, synthesis of aldehydes and ketones using 1,3-dithianes, synthesis of ketones from nitriles and from carboxylic acids, Physical properties, Benzoin, aldol, Perkin and Knoevenagel condensations, Use of acetals as protecting group, Baeyer-Villager oxidation of ketones, Cannizzaro reaction, MPV, Clemmensen, Wolff-Kishner, LiAlH4 and NaBH4 reductions, Halogenation of enolizableketones, An introduction to α, β-unsaturated aldehydes and ketones, Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives: Reactions of carboxylic acids: HVZ reaction, synthesis of acid chlorides, esters and amides, Reduction of carboxylic acids, Mechanism of decarboxylation, Methods of formation and chemical reactions hydroxy
acids – malic, tartaric and citric acids, Unsaturated monocarboxylic acids: Methods of formation and chemical reactions Dicarboxylic acids: Methods of formation and effect of heat and dehydrating agents, Carboxylic acid derivatives: Structure and nomenclature of acid chlorides, esters, amides and acid anhydrides, Preparation of carboxylic acid derivatives, chemical reactions, Mechanism of esterification and hydrolysis (acid, base conditions).
Unit III-
Organic Compounds of Nitrogen: Nitro Compounds: Introduction, Preparation of nitroalkanes and nitroarenes, Chemical reactions of nitroalkanes, Mechanism of nucleophilic substitution in nitroarenes and their reductions in acidic, neutral and alkaline media, Picric acid. Aliphatic and Aromatic amines: Structure and nomenclature of amines, Preparation of alkyl and aryl amines (reduction of nitro compounds, nitrites), reductive amination of aldehydic and ketonic compounds, Gabriel-phthalimide reaction, Hofmann bromamide reaction, Reactivity, physical properties, stereochemistry of
amines, Separation of a mixture of primary, secondary and tertiary amines (Hinsberg’s method), Structural features effecting basicity of amines, Amine salts as phase – transfer catalysts, Reactions of amines, electrophilic aromatic substitution in aryl amines, reactions of amines with nitrous acid, Synthetic transformations by aryl diazonium salts, azo coupling.
Unit IV-
Heterocyclic Compounds: Introduction, methods of formation of five membered heterocycles – furan, thiophene and pyrrole. Molecular orbital picture and aromatic characteristics of pyrrole, furan, thiophene and their chemical reactions with particular emphasis on the mechanism of electrophilic substitution, Six membered heterocycles: methods of formation of pyridine, mechanism of nucleophilic substitution reactions in
pyridine derivatives, Comparison of basicity of pyridine, piperidine and pyrrole, Introduction to condensed five and six-membered heterocycles, preparation and reactions of Indole, quinoline and isoquinoline with special reference to Fischer indole synthesis, Skraup synthesis and Bischler-Napieralski synthesis, Mechanism of electrophilic substitution reactions of indole, quinoline and isoquinoline.
Unit V-
Natural Products: Carbohydrates: Introduction, classification and nomenclature, Configuration of monosaccharides, Erythro and threodiastereomers, Interconversions in carbohydrates – glucose to fructose, fructose to glucose, aldopentose to aldohexose and aldohexose to aldopentose, Epimerisation, mechanism of osazone formation, Formation of glycosides, ethers and esters, Determination of ring size of monosaccharides, Structural elucidation of D(+) glucose, Mechanism of Mutarotation, Constitution of disaccharides – maltose, sucrose and lactose, Introduction to polysaccharides (starch and cellulose) without involving structure determination, Alkaloids: Introduction, general methods of structural determination, structural elucidation of Conine, Nicotine and piperineTerpinoids: Introduction, isoprene rule, structural elucidation of Citral and Menthol, Amino acids, Peptides, Proteins and Nucleic acids Classification, structure and stereochemistry of amino acids, Acid-base behaviour, isoelectric point and electrophoresis, Preparation and reactions of α- amino acids, Classification of proteins, Peptide structure determination – end group analysis, selective hydrolysis of peptides, Solid-phase peptide synthesis, Primary and secondary structures of proteins, Protein denaturation, Nucleic acids: Introduction, constituents of nucleic acids, Ribonucleosides and Ribonucleotides. The double helical structure of DNA.
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