Syllabus:
- Introduction to organic chemistry and organic compounds
- Reasons for the separate study of organic compounds from inorganic compounds
- Tetra-covalency and catenation properties of carbon
- Classification of organic compounds
- Alkyl groups, functional groups and homologous series
- Idea of structural formula, contracted formula and bond line structural formula
- Preliminary idea of cracking and reforming, quality of gasoline, octane number, cetane number and gasoline additive
