The students will be provided with the fundamental notions of organic chemistry. First some basic concepts on atomic and molecular orbitals, chemical bonds, shape of the molecules, acid and bases, will be given. Then, the structure, nomenclature, synthesis and reactivity of the main classes of functional groups (aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, alkyl and aryl halogen derivatives, alcohols and thiols, phenols, ethers, amines, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives) will be described, not overlooking the stereochemical aspects.
Traditional lessons in the classroom (64 hours). The solutions of problems will be treated in additional and optional tutoring hours. The attendance is not compulsory but, for statistical means, it wil be anyway monitored.
The program will not follow a specific book.
Anyway, students are advised to integrate the lessons with consultation of any Organic Chemistry book for chemists (that can be borrowed in the library). For example:
Ricevimento: Luca Banfi is always present in the department from 8.30 to 13.00 and from 15.00 to 18.30. However, due to the many lessons and exams he is involved in and to the institutional meetings, it is impossible to establish in advance a time interval where he will be surely not engaged. Therefore students are pleased to take an appointment in advance by E-mail. They will be received in few days.
LUCA BANFI (President)
ANDREA BASSO
CHIARA LAMBRUSCHINI
LISA MONI
RENATA RIVA
SERGIO THEA
From february, 20, 2017 (according to the timetable that will be reported on www.ctc.unige.it).
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
The students who want to be submitted to the exam must registrate at least 48 hours in advance on https://servizionline.unige.it/studenti/esami/prenotazione
The exam will be essentially oral. However, it will be preceded, on the same day, by a written exam, whose aim is just to filter off the unprepared students in order to avoid useless loss of time for both sides. Therefore the written exam will not involve solution of problems, it will be relatively easy, and onlt these four outcomes will be communicated few hours after its end: excellent, good, sufficient and not sufficient. Only the students who have gained the first three grades will be admitted to the oral exam. The grade obtained during the written exam will not count for the final grade, apart from the fact that the maximum available grade for those judged "sufficient" will be 26. Even the students who have got "excellent" may eventually fail the oral exam.
The oral exam will involve 3 questions. The first one will be quite general and will be taken from a list that will be made public, during the course, through the "aulaweb" service. The second and third will be more specific. The relative weight of the three questions will be, approximately, 50%, 25%, 25%. When students who have got "excellent" in the wrtten exam, answers very well to the first question, the commission may decide to stop the exam (with a grade of 30) or to pose a more difficult question in order to judge if the student is worth the "cum laude".
During the oral exam the student must demonstrate to have reached the learning outcomes, both orally and (most importantly) writing formulas, chemical equations, mechanisms. In case of students who have certified a "specific learning disease" (DSA) the commission may decide to go directly thrpough the oral exam where the student will be given enough time to understand the questions and answer to them. Requests of these aids must be presented not directly to the professor, but to the reference persons for DSA at the School of Science.
When the commission will judge that the learning oucomes have not been reached, the students willbe invited to repeat the exam in one of the subsequent dates. When the commission have decided for a positive grade, the student may ask to refuse ot and repeat the exam. However the commission will decide whether to accept or not this refusal. In any case the request of refusal must be presented at once, and students are not allowed to change their minds later. If, later,the students repeats the exam and obtain an inferior grade, he/she can not ask to receive the grade that he/she had preiously refused.
The oral exam is always carried out by two teachers with at least 5 years of experience and will last at least 30 minutes. In this way, taking into account also the preliminary written exam, the commission is definitely able to verify with high accuracy if the student has reached or not the learning outcomes.
During the oral exam the student must demonstrate to have reached the learning outcomes, both orally and (most importantly) writing formulas, chemical equations, mechanisms.
When the commission will judge that the learning oucomes have not been reached, the students willbe invited to repeat the exam in one of the subsequent dates.
Only the students who have already successfully obtained the credits for "General Chemistry and Laboratory" will be admitted to the exam.
