Università Roma Tre

The student goal is to develop skills to understand the chemical processes underlying cellular metabolism and the vital functions of living organisms. At the end of the course, the student must be able to identify the functional groups present in natural molecules and to know their physico chemical- characteristics and the reactivity at the base of their transformations.
To this end, the course aims to provide:
- information on the structure, nomenclature and physico-chemical properties of the main organic functional groups;
- skills to recognize the stereochemistry of molecules knowing how to correlate it with the spatial structure of asymmetric carbons;
- knowledge of the structure / activity relationships and of the main organic chemistry reactions with particular regard to the mechanism of functional groups formation and
transformation and to the stereochemistry of products deriving from reactions on chiral substrates.