CHE 232-001, Spring 2007

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

Remember, these are my raw notes, so their accuracy and completeness is not guaranteed.

• Chapters 13 and 14 (new version posted 1/24/07)
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17 (new version posted 3/19/07)
• Chapters 18 and 19
• Amines

Exams & Study Guides

Exam	Date	Time	Study Guide	Prev Year's Exam	Prev Year's Key	Seating Chart	This Year's Exam	This Year's Key	Class Median	Grades Histogram
1	Fri Feb 16	in class	Guide 1	S05-1	S05-1 Key	chart	S07-1 (spectra)	S07-1 Key	62	Chart
2	Mon Mar 5	in class	Guide 2	S05-2	S05-2 Key	chart	S07-2	S07-2 Key	78 (!)	Chart
3	Fri Apr 13	in class	Guide 3	S05-3	S05-3 Key	chart	S07-3	S07-3 Key	62	Chart
Final	Mon Apr 30	6:00–8:00 pm	Guide 4	S05-4 (spectra)	S05-4 Key	chart	S07-4 (spectra)	S07-4 Key	76/150
Alt. Final	Tue May 1	3:30–5:30 pm CP-211

If I made an addition error on your exam, bring it to me, and I will correct it immediately. 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. Please be aware that I photocopy a substantial percentage of the exams to discourage students from changing their answers and then requesting a regrade.

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