Department of Chemistry

Syllabus (pdf)

Recommended Reading in Wade, 7th edition

• Chapter 12 - read all sections (problems 14-17, 20, 24, 25)
• Chapter 13 - skip sections 9-14 (problems 34-36, 39, 40, 47, 49)
• Chapter 14 - skip sections 7, 9, 10, 15, 16 (problems 31, 32, 37, 38)
• Chapter 15 - skip section 13 (problems 27, 30, 33)
• Chapter 16 - skip sections 9, 11, 15 (problems 28, 32, 34)
• Chapter 17 - skip sections 13, 15 (problems 46, 59)
• Chapter 18 - read all sections (problems 39, 49-51, 60) - most important chapter in 202
• Chapter 19 - skip sections 8, 11, 13-16 (problems 37, 42, 62)
• Chapter 20 - read all sections (problems 26, 27, 33, 35, 39)
• Chapter 21 - skip section 15 (problems 44, 48-50, 53)
• Chapter 22 - skip section 19 (problems 61, 62, 64, 65, 68, 69) - another very important chapter
• Chapter 23 - skip sections 8-19, 24 (problems 53, 54)
• Chapter 24 - skip sections 6-14 (problem 35)

Homework Sets (and Keys)

• Homework #1 - 202 review - due Friday 01/27/2012 key (pdf)
• Homework - Spectroscopy - will not be collected key (pdf)
• Homework #2 (Ch 14) - due Friday 02/17/2012 (pdf)

Class Handouts

• mechanistic help sheet (pdf)
• epoxide nomenclature (pdf)
• electrophilic aromatic substitution regioselectivity (pdf)

Review Keys

• Review #1 (pdf)
• Review #2 (pdf) (not yet taken)
• Review #3 (pdf) (not yet taken)

Lab Handouts

• Week 0 (01/23) - lab notebook style (pdf)
• Week 1 (01/30) - group spectroscopy problems - no handout (numbers might not match those in lab, sorry)
• lab unknown 1
• lab unknown 2
• lab unknown 3
• lab unknown 4
• lab unknown 5
• lab unknown 6
• Week 2 (02/06) - tosylation of an amine (pdf) - part 1
• Week 3 (02/13) - tosylation of an amine - part 2
• Week 4 (02/20) - Diels-Alder (pdf) - part 1
• Week 5 (02/27) - Diels-Alder - part 2 - lab report template (MS Word)
• lab report help sheet
• sample Diels-Alder lab report
• Week 6 (03/12) - computational chemistry lecture - (no lab for week of 03/05 - Spring Break)
• modeling data
• Week 7 (03/19) - computational chemistry lab (pdf)
• Week 8 (03/26) - nitration (pdf) - part 1
• Week 9 (04/02) - nitration - part 2
• Week 10 (04/16) - aldol condensation (pdf) - part 1
• Week 11 (04/23) - aldol condensation - part 2

Spectroscopy Examples

• in-class IR spectra
• in-class MS spectra
• in-class NMR spectra
• in-class unknowns (spectra only) (pdf)
• in-class unknown #1 (solution)
• in-class unknown #2 (solution)
• in-class unknowns (spectra only) (pdf)
• in-class unknown #3 (solution)
• in-class unknown #4 (solution)
• in-class unknown #3 (Fri) (no solution available - hint: isomer of unknown #5)
• in-class unknown #4 (Fri) (no solution available - problem is too hard)
• in-class unknown #5 (solution) (Fri)