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 Ten

Organic acids Page 286, 289, 290

Origin

Naming

Reactions Page 297

Conversion to Esters

Conversion to amides

Amides Page 309

Peptides and Proteins

Poly amides Page 314

Polyesters Page 315

Lesson Eleven:

Organic acids

Reactions

Conversion to acid chlorides Page 297

Reactions of Acid Halides

Production of carboxylic acids

Production of esters

Production of amides

Reactions of Amides Page 310

Conversions to acids

Reduction to amines with LiAlH₄

Production of Nitriles Page 311

Displacement reaction involving HCN and an acyl halide

Eg RCH2Br + Na^{+ CN}_{^{-
à RCH2CN + NaBr}}

Reactions of Nitriles

Conversion to acids

Lesson Twelve

Amines Page 350

Primary, Secondary Tertiary and Quaternary ammonium salts

Naming Amines

Heterocyclic amines