This course isdesigned as major foundational courses for the undergraduate students in Schoolof Life Science to provide them with a fundamental overview of organicchemistry and its importance to biological science. A good knowledge of generalchemistry is required. This course includes basic concepts and principles inorganic chemistry, major classes of reactions, organic reaction mechanisms andpathways, structure determination and stereochemistry of organic compounds, designand synthesis of the targeted organic molecules, some of the chemistry ofbiomolecules: carbohydrates, nucleic acids, lipids, amino acids and peptides,and enzymatic reactions.