Key Topics for TRU students taking CHEM1500
- Conformations of alkanes and cycloalkanes
- staggered/eclipsed/anti/gauche conformations
- torsional energy barriers
- ring angle strain
- steric strain
- cyclohexane and substituted cyclohexanes conformations
- axial and equatorial bonds
Key Learning Outcomes (Examples)
- draw the various possible significant conformations of organic compounds with a straight-chain or ring-structure carbon atoms
