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Chapter 1 What is Organic Chemistry?

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Seidel


Chem 315

Course notes will be posted on the Sakai site: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal


Seidel research website: http://seidel-group.com/

Textbook: Clayden, Greeves, & Warren:


Organic Chemistry 2e (ISBN: 978-0-19-927029-3)
Problems:
http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199270293/

Workbook: Warren: Solutions Manual to Accompany


Organic Chemistry (ISBN: 978-0199663347)
Recommended: Molecular Model Set
http://www.maruzen.info/hgs/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4

Software: ChemDraw, Site license:


http://chem.rutgers.edu/chemdraw_site_license

Aromatic compounds isolated from residue


of coal distillation:

Typical ingredients in shaving gel:

Sucralose

Sucrose

Selected pharmaceutical drugs:

For the Top 200 Brand Name Drugs by


Total US Prescriptions, see:
http://cbc.arizona.edu/njardarson/group/
Prof. Jon Njardarson

(One of the most famous modern insecticides)

Pyrethrum-flowers

What makes a compound organic ?

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