Return to the UK Chemistry Home PageIn collaboration with some UK computer scientists and the publisher Prentice–Hall, I have developed a new Web-based organic chemistry homework program called ACE Organic. This program asks you to draw organic structures in response to a question. If your answer is incorrect, you are given some feedback, but you are not told the correct answer. You need to keep trying until you get the right answer.
Your performance on the electronic homework problems (percentage of problems answered correctly, excluding the tutorials) will contribute 10% to your overall grade. You will be allowed an infinite number of tries to answer most questions, so there is no reason any person cannot score 100% on the electronic homework. Feel free to ask for help from me on any problems. Problems from the electronic homework have a very peculiar way of making their way onto exams. Last year's students found it most useful to do the ACE problems early and then to focus on the textbook problems closer to exam time.
We are continuing to add new capabilities to our own installation of ACE here at UK, which we call ACE@UK, but the commercial installation of ACE has a much larger database of questions. Therefore, you will have to register with two different ACE systems. Most of your homework will be on the commercial installation of ACE. I will alert you when I post homework on ACE@UK.
Visit this page for instructions on gaining access to the commercial installation of ACE Organic.
Visit this page for instructions on gaining access to ACE@UK.
In addition to the ACE assignments, problems from the book will be assigned, but they will neither be collected nor graded. Answers to homework problems are available in the Study Guide and Solutions Manual. Answers to non-text problems assigned in class are available in the lecture notes or on this Web site.
Even though I will not be collecting or grading the traditional homework, you are strongly encouraged to do it. Problems from the book also have a very peculiar way of making their way onto exams. Also, many types of problems that may appear on exams will not be found in ACE, so you will need to do the textbook problems in addition to the ACE problems. Last year's students found it most useful to do the ACE problems early and then to focus on the textbook problems closer to exam time.
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This page was last updated August 17, 2005