Certificate IV Food Technology

Organic Chemistry

Lesson Plan

Reference: Think Quest

http://library.thinkquest.org/3659/orgchem/

McMurry, J. (1994) Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry, Brooks/Cole.

Lesson Eight:

Alcohols

Reactions

Mechanism of nucleophilic substitution (Sn2 reactions)

Page 209 McM

Reactions of Phenols

Acidity of Phenols Page 237

Electrophilic substitutions Page 147 McM

Br, NO_{2, SO3H}

Oxidation to quinones Page 247

With Na2Cr2O7

_{Carbonyl Compounds

Aldehydes Page 285
Ketones
Carboxylic acids
Esters

Practicum

Ferric Chloride test for Phenols
Acidity of Phenols

Reference

http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/organic.html

http://www.chem.uic.edu/web1/OCOL-II/WIN/EXIT.HTM}