Continue Chapter 11
Reaction Guide for Chapters 10 and 11
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 11 except the following sections: 11.4b, 11.5b, 11.8, 11.9, and 11.12. You will also not be tested on organocuprates in 11.4c, or KMnO4 in 11.6c.
Week of 11/28:
Continue Chapter 10
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 10.
Reminder: Exam 3 is on Monday, December 5th! See the Exams Page for details.
Week of 11/21:
Chapter 10
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 10.
Week of 11/7:
Chapter 9
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 9, except sections 9.4 and 9.11. You will also not be tested on the McLafferty rearrangement (pg 378) or the Karptlus curve (pg 411).
Lecture Slides for Mass Spectrometry: PPT PDF
Lecture Slides for IR: PPT PDF
Lecture Slides for 1H NMR: PPT PDF
Lecture Slides for 13C NMR: PPT PDF
Week of 10/31:
Chapter 8
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 8, except sections 8.6-8.7. You will also not be tested on the Hofmann Elimination or the E1cB mechanism on pgs. 342-345.
Exam 2 is on Thursday, November 3rd! See the Exams Page for details.
Week of 10/24:
Continue Chapter 7
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 7. You will not be tested specifically on the following topics/sections: section 7.2c, entropy in 7.4b, rate constants in 7.4d, solvent effects on SN2 reactions in 7.5h. You will also not be tested on the following reagents (as part of the Chapter 7 material): alcohol chlorination using thionyl chloride (pg 300), triphenylphosphine/CCl4 (pg 301), or PCl5 (pg 301-2).
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Handout on substitution and elimination
Week of 10/19:
Chapter 7
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 7. You will not be tested specifically on the following topics/sections: section 7.2c, entropy in 7.4b, rate constants in 7.4d, solvent effects on SN2 reactions in 7.5h. You will also not be tested on the following reagents (as part of the Chapter 7 material): alcohol chlorination using thionyl chloride (pg 300), triphenylphosphine/CCl4 (pg 301), or PCl5 (pg 301-2).
Information on carbocation rearrangements in SN1 reactions can be found in section 8.5 (we will cover these concepts as part of the Chapter 7 material).
Week of 10/10:
Chapter 6
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 6, except sections 6.6, 6.8, 6.9. In addition, we will not cover nitrogen inversion on pg 240-241.
Get the lecture slides (Chapter 6): PDF PPT
Week of 10/3:
Chapter 5
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 5. Note: you will not be expected to systematically name bicyclic systems, which is described in 5.7.
Get the lecture slides: PPT PDF
Exam 1 is on Wednesday, October 5th! See the Exams Page for details.
Week of 9/26:
Chapter 4
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 4, except sections 4.7 and 4.10.
Get the lecture slides: PPT PDF
Week of 9/19:
Chapter 3
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 3, except sections 3.16-3.22.
Get the lecture slides: PPT PDF
Degrees of unsaturation handout
Rotation around pi bonds: video (https://youtu.be/qCFpfh1SuMU)
Week of 9/12:
Chapter 2
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 2, except section 2.15.
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Lab starts this week! Make sure to print the Lab Syllabus and Experiment 1, read them, and bring them to your first lab meeting
Week of 9/7:
Chapter 1
Answers to the problems we went over in class on September 12th can be found here.
To prepare for class, read through Chapter 1, except for the description of weighting factor from pages 28-30.
Get the lecture slides: PDF PPT
Lewis Structure Help.pdf (Need-Have-Shared-Unbonded Algorithm)
Note: Lab starts the week of 9/12. Make sure to print the Lab Syllabus and Experiment 1, read them, and bring them to your first lab meeting