- Basic Concepts in Organic Chemistry: Atomic orbitals; molecular orbitals and chemical bonding;
- Concept of resonance and stability of resonance hybrids,
- factor effecting the resonance;
- Inductive effect; Applications of inductive effect and resonance on various properties of organic compounds;
- Steric effect and its applications,
- Hydrogen bonding and its effects on various properties of organic compounds;
- Tautomerism,
- Hyperconjugation.
- Chemistry of Functional Groups: Preparation and properties of alcohols; Phenols; Ethers; and amines with focus on reaction mechanism and applications;
- Carbonyl compounds; Preparations and reaction mechanism of aldehydes and ketones and their applications;
- Carboxylic acids and their derivatives; Acidity of carboxylic acids and effect of substituents on their acidity;
- Preparation and reactions of carboxylic acids and their derivatives including esters; Amides; Acid halides and acid anhydrides.
- Chemistry of Hydrocarbons: Saturated; Unsaturated and aromatic hydrocarbons with emphasis on synthesis
- and free radical;
- Electrophilic; Addition and electrophilic substitution reactions
