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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEM 2310
Course Syllabus Fall Semester, 2006
Course website address (course information, handouts, review questions, tests, and answers): http://www.webct.utah.edu
Instructor: Bub Carlson Office: HEB 1340 Phone: please use e-mail E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: I am normally on campus from 8 – 4 and my office hours are anytime after 9:30. My class schedule is on my door. You can sign up for an appointment on my door or just stop by.
Class Times: MWHF 8:35-9:25 a.m., room HEB 2008 Quizzes and hour exams will normally be given alternate Thursdays. For extra time on hour exams, work can begin as early as 7:30 a.m. Wednesday class periods before all tests will be review sessions. On weeks with tests there will be only two lectures. Thursday class periods on weeks with no scheduled tests will be discussion sessions. On those weeks there well be three lectures. T 8:35-9:25 a.m., LS 102, extra weekly help session (Bub Carlson) There will also be three additional supplemental instruction sessions per week by SI instructor at times to be determined after the first week of class.
SI instructor: Mark Dammann [email protected]
The Supplemental Instruction Program, called SI for short, is offered in this course to provide organized study sessions. These sessions are free and open to all students in the course and are led by an undergraduate who has done well in this subject area. Your SI leader will be attending classes, reading the material, and doing any relevant assignments to be prepared for the SI sessions. The purpose of SI is to see that each of you has the opportunity to do as well as you would like to in this course. In SI sessions, we will review, organize, and clarify the material from lectures, teach you ways to develop effective study skills for this course, and help you prepare for exams. Your SI leader will schedule 3 meetings per week convenient to the majority of your schedules. Attendance is voluntary, and you may attend as many or as few sessions as you like.
To help us determine the best times to offer SI and to assess your learning goals for SI, please complete the 5-minute online survey in the next couple of days. The online survey can be accessed at : www.studentvoice.com/utah/si.html It is extremely important for the effectiveness of SI that you complete the survey. Even if you are uncertain whether you will use SI, please complete the survey in case you decide to use SI later in the semester.
At the end of the semester, please complete the post-survey also accessed at www.studentvoice.com/utah/si.html to provide us with feedback on your experience with SI. Your comments are valued and important to our ability to provide you with effective SI sessions that meet your needs. Let us know what worked well and what you would change!
Prerequisites: It is recommended that no student take Chem 2310 without first taking General Chem 1220; it is recommended no one should take Chem 2310 directly out of high school.
Texts: Organic Chemistry, eighth edition by Solomons and Fryhle Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Organic Chemistry , eighth edition by Solomons, Fryhle and Johnson
Optional: Molecular models
Lecture Topic and Test Schedule:
Date Lecture Topic Reading Assignment
Aug 23 Introduction; Lewis electron dot structures 1- 24 Formal charges; Resonance 14- 25 Molecular geometry 19-
28 Structural formulas; Functional groups 41- 30 Intermolecular attractions; Physical properties (omit 2.16) 70- 31 Discussion session Sept 1 Alkane nomenclature (omit 3) 134-
4 No class/Labor Day 6 Review session 7 Quiz # 1 (chaps 1-3) 8 Nomenclature of alcohols & alkyl halides; Cycloalkanes 139-
11 Alkane & cyclohexane conformations 154- 13 Disubstituted cyclohexanes 711- 14 Discussion session 15 Stereochemistry; R/S nomenclature 193-
27 Oxidations of alcohols; Organometallics 546- 29 Review Session 30 Hour exam III (chaps 8.15-11) Dec 1 Additions of Grignards to carbonyl compounds 555-
4 Synthesis problems involving Grignard reactions 6 Review Session 7 Unofficial reading day for Chem 2310, no class scheduled 8 Final exam (can work 7-11 am) (chaps 1-9 and 10-12; sect 2.16 and chap 9 will be covered second semester) (Note: final not on Dec 14!)
Homework assignments Solomons and Fryhle, Organic Chemistry:
Answers to these problems will be found in the Study Guide and Solutions Manual. Supplemental homework and review questions will also be handed out in class and some will be only posted on the web; answers to these will be posted on the web and placed in the library.
Aug 25 1.1-6, 18, 19
29 1.8, 10-15, 20, 22-27, 32- 30 2.5, 6, 17, 20, 21, 23, 28, 35- Sept 2 4.1, 2
9 4.3-5, 19 a-k, 20 (omit e, h)
12 4.10, 37 14 4.12, 13, 31, 32, 39, 42 16 5.2-5, 9-
19 5. 23 5.17-22, 24-
26 5.33, 35, 38- 30 6.1, 2, 13
Oct 3 6.4, 5
10 6.6-10, 15- 14 6.21, 25
17 7.1, 18, 2, 5, 7, 8 19 7.9-11, 26, 31, 33 21 7.13 b-d, 14, 15, 22, 24
Nov 4 8.18, 20-23, 27-
9 10.2, 6, 11, 14 10 A.1, 2
18 11.7-9, 26, 13-
21 11.19, 20, 29-30 (a-h), 35, 46
28 12.4, 5, 14 Dec 2 12.8-10, 12, 15, 17, 19
Important Dates: Last day to drop/delete class: Sept 1 Last day to withdraw: Oct 20
Point distribution for course: Quizzes – 4 @ 25 100 Hour exams – 3 @ 100 300 Final exam 200 600
Examination Policies:
There are no make-up quizzes or exams. Under certain justified circumstances students may take tests early or late. All tests will be given on Thursdays and returned the following Monday in class. Any student taking a test late must do so before they are returned in class. Come to HEB 1340 Thursday or Friday or before 8:15 Monday morning. Any student who misses a test will receive a 0.
Errors unfortunately do occur on grading of tests. Always carefully check your test with the key located on the course website or on reserve in the library. Legitimate questions about grading of an exam or quiz should be submitted within one week after the exam is handed back. Do not write on the test or it may not be acceptable for regarding.
Anyone caught cheating on an exam or quiz will be referred to the Dean for disciplinary action and should expect to receive an F in the course.
Teaching philosophy and study strategy:
To do well, students should attend class and take very detailed notes. You should rely on your lecture notes rather than the text as your primary study resource. Lecture notes will be posted on the course website (this may not occur for several days after the lecture). The topics covered in lectures will follow the same order as the text. The lectures will focus on the most important aspects of the material with more emphasis given to the most important points. Examples used in lecture will be different from those in the text. You will be responsible for everything covered in lecture, but not responsible for material that is covered in the text but not in lecture. It is not possible to cover all the topics in the text. On hour exam I over half the general background material in the book will not be covered in lecture. To get most out of the lectures, it is recommended you read the text before lecture, then reread the text in more detail after the lecture to make sure your understand all concepts. The lectures move quite rapidly, so reading the text before lecture will improve your comprehension. Always go over your lecture notes within a day of the lecture.
Be sure to do all the assigned problems, handouts, and review questions. Check your answers carefully. Before you do any problems, first go over the concept involved and make sure you understand the concept and method for solving the problem. Always check the answer to each problem before you go on to the next, so that you don’t learn and repeat incorrect methods. Pay attention to small details, because they may be a clue that you don’t understand some concepts. The answers to text problems are in the study guide and answers to handouts will be both in the library (Marriott reserve) and on the web. Although test questions will be different from assigned problems and lecture examples, they will involve the same concepts. It is not sufficient to look over examples of solved problems; you must practice solving problems yourself. Rework any problems you did not get correct on the first attempt as part of your review before tests.
It is imperative that you not get behind in the material. General chemistry was a review of high school chemistry and covered many different topics which could be approached in any order. Organic chemistry is all new material and builds on itself like a foreign language. If you do not understand the basic concepts thoroughly it eventually becomes necessary to compensate by memorizing, and there is too much material covered in the course to learn it through memorization. Try to understand concepts rather than memorizing them; ask yourself “why is this logical?” People who do well in this class are the ones who commit to spending many hours a week necessary to master the material. If you find you cannot make the necessary time commitment to get the grade you want, you might consider withdrawing from the course and taking it another semester when you can spend more time on it.
It is recommended you organize the material to facilitate learning. The best way to be able to predict products from a set of reaction conditions is to make note cards with reactant (written in a general form) and conditions on one side and expected product on the other side. The best way to prepare for synthesis problems is to make up preparation sheets organized by functional groups with the same general reactions which were on the note cards. A good way to organize mechanisms (written in general form) is to put similar mechanisms on the same sheet (those involving carbocations or in acidic conditions, those involving carbanions or in basic conditions, and those involving free radicals).
Organic chemistry requires frequent visualization of molecular structures in three dimensions, so it is recommended all students purchase or share an inexpensive set of molecular models.
Many students have been successful in studying with a partner or in a group. You can compare class notes with a study partner and come up with an improved set of lecture notes, you can discuss homework problems and create additional problems for each other.
There will be review sessions the day before every test. The review, discussion, and supplementary instruction sessions are an ideal time to clear up any questions you have about the lecture material and homework problems. To get the most out of these sessions you should have tried to work all problems beforehand. If these sessions do not answer your questions I will be happy to meet with you personally if you are having difficulty, and my goal is to help the maximum number of you finish this course with a good grade. The Department of Chemistry office (HEB 2020) also has a list of students who are willing to work as tutors should you feel you want additional help.
There will be supplementary problems handed out periodically as well as review questions before every quiz and exam. Old tests will also be available for practice. Tests and answers to them will be on reserve in the library and posted on the web.
Other important points:
You are responsible for all information and announcements made in lecture. If you miss a lecture get the notes and all announcements from the course website or from another student.
Lectures go fast so be prepared. You can read the text in advance of lectures so it will be easier to comprehend concepts. Each organic lecture section must cover the same standard number of chapters each semester, so it is not possible to slow down the lecture pace.
