Course Title

Practical Organic Chemistry I for Health Sciences

Course Number

10231239

Instructor Name

رشا بوريني

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

Second Semester 2025
Second Semester 2022

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

This practical course is designed to provide health science students with the fundamentals of applied organic chemistry through laboratory work. The course covers topics such as basic laboratory techniques like melting and boiling point measurement, crystallization, extraction, distillation, and thin-layer chromatography. It also includes the isolation of organic compounds from natural sources, such as caffeine and proteins, and the study of the properties of organic compounds and their relationship to chemical structure. In addition, the course covers simple organic reactions, such as the preparation of cyclohexene, tert-butyl chloride, and isoamyl acetate (banana oil), with an emphasis on identifying functional groups, reaction mechanisms, and applying safety protocols in the laboratory.

Students will learn how to perform common laboratory techniques such as melting point,
boiling point, thin layer chromatography, column chromatography, crystallization and
extraction. After getting hand on experience on the techniques, the students will be introduced
to simple chemical reactions that involves functional groups identification, functional groups
conversion, and synthesis.

1. Follow proper safety rules and learn
proper way of handling chemicals and
laboratory equipment.

2. Learn proper purification techniques of
organic compounds.

3. Experiment the synthesis of organic
compound with various functional
groups and perform chemical tests for
functional groups identification.

4. Explain the relationship between
physical properties (melting point,
solubility, boiling point) and chemical
structure.

5. Predict the reactivity of organic
compounds and the products of organic
reactions based on the general reactivity
of functional groups and mechanisms.

Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual I, Othman Hamed.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.