CHE 232-002, Spring 2009

Exams, Tips, Handouts, & Keys

The syllabus

Advice on how to do well in this course.

Homework

Handouts

• Stereochemistry handouts.

• Substitution and elimination handouts.
  • Instructions for drawing substitution and elimination products.
  • Instructions for determining whether substitution or elimination will occur.

• Alkene reactions handout.

• How to go about drawing mechanisms, including free-radical chain mechanisms.

• C–C bond-forming reactions we know and love, and how to use them in synthesis problems.

• Some multipart spectroscopy problems and answers.

• A functional-group finder. Find out what functional groups are in your compound, and see how different functional groups are defined.

• How you know whether dehydration follows an aldol reaction.

• Synthetic interconversions of alcohols and carbonyl compounds.

• Synthetic interconversions of carboxylic acid derivatives.

• Organic reactions in biology:

  • The aldol reaction catalyzed by enamines in vivo.

  • How Claisen reactions are used in polyketide synthesis.

  • Carboxylic acid derivative interconversion reactions in peptide synthesis.

• A variety of useful chemical calculation programs, including a mechanism calculator, a pK_a calculator, a hybridization calculator, and a program that names pericyclic reactions.

• Elsewhere:
  • Check it out: IUPAC's free online compound naming service. Draw a structure and have the computer calculate its name for you!

  • William H. Reusch's Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry.

• Greg Cook's Organic Chemistry help pages.

Dr. Grossman's lecture notes

I will post my notes after each chapter or set of lectures. Remember, these are my raw notes, so I do not guarantee their accuracy and completeness.

• Chapters 13 and 14 (spectroscopy).
• Chapter 15 (radicals).
• Chapter 16 (dienes).
• Chapters 17-18 (aromatics).
• Chapter 20 (addition of hard nucleophiles to carbonyls).
• Chapter 21 (addition of soft nucleophiles to ketohydes).
• Chapter 22 (carboxylic acid derivative interchanges).
• Chapters 23-24 (carbonyl α-substitution reactions).

Exams & Study Guides

All exams (including the final) will be held in Room 014 of the Charles T. Wethington Building (for those with laptops) and Nursing 602J (for those who need University computers). The exams will be given via ACE, but not the version that you usually use for your homework. Instead, we will use this local UK version of ACE. If you have not already done so, you need to register with ACE. Follow these instructions to register with ACE.

CTW-014 room diagram and seating chart for exam 4.

Exam	Date	Time	Study Guide	Prev Year's Exam	Prev Year's Key	Class Median	Grades Histogram
1	Wed Feb 18	7:00–9:00 pm	Guide 1	S07-1 (spectra)	S07-1 Key	59	PDF
2	Wed Mar 11	8:30–10:30 pm	Guide 2	S07-2	S07-2 Key	43	PDF
3	Wed Apr 15	8:00–10:00 pm	Guide 3	S07-3	S07-3 Key	66	PDF
Final	Mon May 4	6:00–8:00 pm	Guide 4	S07-4 (spectra)	S07-4 Key

If you would like to request a regrade, please put the reason for your request in writing, and return it to me with your exam. I will not entertain oral requests for regrades.

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