Chemistry 211 - Organic Chemistry

Chemistry 211 - Organic Chemistry - Fall 2000

Professor: Kevin Gwaltney

Phone: 577-1345

Office: Rooke Chemistry 308

Email: gwaltney@bucknell.edu

AIM: moonshadowg

Texts: Organic Chemistry: McMurry, 5^th ed.

Study Guide and Solutions Manual, 5^th ed. (recommended)

Pushing Electrons: Weeks, 3^rd ed.

Organic Chemistry Lab Survival Manual: Zubrick, 4^th ed.

Chemistry 211 Organic Chemistry I Laboratory Manual Fall, 2000

Molecular Structure Models: Organic Chemistry (highly recommended)

Lecture: T R 9:30 am Recitation: Wednesday 7 pm, Rooke 116

(or with other professors in Rooke 116: Mon. 7 pm, Thurs. 7 pm)

Lab: Check your schedule

Office Hours: By appointment (phone, email, after class), Walk-ins welcome if time allows

Quizzes: EVERY Thursday: 9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30

Exams: 1 Thurs., September 28; 2 Thurs., November 2; 3 Thurs., December 7

Final Exam: Date to be announced

Check for Conflicts with Sports or Other classes NOW!!!

Grading:	Points
9 quizzes	100
3 exams (100 pts. each)	300
Lab	125
Final	200
Total	725 pts.

Impropriety: Academic Impropriety will not be tolerated. Suspected cases of impropriety will be dealt with appropriately. Be careful that you do not arouse suspicion.

Absences: Alternative Quiz or Exam arrangements will be allowed for:

Sports: Note from coach (at least two weeks prior to event).

Illness: Note From Dean is required.

Study Daily Start TODAY! AT LEAST 9-12 hours/week

Read, review and rewrite notes

WORK PROBLEMS, check answers, work problems WITHOUT looking at

the answers, check answers, work problems, check answers, …

Work in GROUPS of 2 to 4.

If you do not do well on a quiz or exam, your are not practicing enough!

Order of Topics

Structure and Bonding: McMurry: Chapter 1

Suggested Problems: 1-3, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14-17, 22-24, 26, 27, 33, 35, 38, 44, 45

Problem Set: Hybridization and Lewis Structures

Weeks: Ch.1: prob. 1-31

Bonding and Molecules: McMurry: Chapter 2 (see also 5.6)

Suggested Problems: 2, 3, 6, 8-10, 13, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26, 34, 36, 38, 40-45, 48, 52, 56

Problem Set: Organic Structures and Formulas; Resonance, Acids and Bases

Weeks: Ch.1: prob. 32-48, Ch.2: prob. 1-28, 37-54, Ch.1: prob. 49-66

Alkanes: McMurry: Chapter 3

Suggested Problems: 1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 13, 15-18, 19, 23, 26, 30, 34, 38-40, 44

Problem Set: Naming Alkanes; Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Worksheet

Conformations: McMurry: Chapter 4 (skip 4.7)

Suggested Problems: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 27, 28, 31, 32, 38, 39, 41, 44, 45

Problem Set: McMurry Fig. 4.15 and 4.18, Cyclohexane

Reactions: McMurry: Chapter 5

Suggested Problems: 5-7, 10-14, 19, 20, 24-26, 28, 29, 37, 38

Problem Set: Functional Groups and Reaction Types

Alkenes: McMurry: Chapter 6 (skip 6.11)

Suggested Problems: 1, 3-7, 10, 11, 14-16, 19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49

Problem Set: Alkenes I

Reactions of Alkenes: McMurry: Chapter 7

Suggested Problems: 3-5, 7-10, 12-17, 23-27, 35, 37, 42, 45, 46

Problem Set: Alkenes II

Alkynes: McMurry: Chapter 8

Suggested Problems: 1, 3, 5-8, 10-13, 18, 19, 21, 23-26, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36,

Problem Set: Alkynes and Retrosynthesis

Stereochemistry: McMurry: Chapter 9 (skip 9.6, 9.13 and 9.14)

Suggested Problems: 1-4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 19, 23, 26, 35, 47-50, 53, 54, 56, 57, 62

Problem Set: Stereochemistry

Alkyl Halides: McMurry: Chapter 10 (skip 10.10)

Suggested Problems: 1-3, 6, 8-12, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 32, 38

Problem Set: Multi-Step Synthesis

Chemistry 212: Chapters 11-14, 17-23, 15-16