Syllabus Chemistry 8. Elementary Organic Chemistry On Line.

V. Cornel, Reedley College. Fall 2008.

 

Lecture: All lecture materials and notes will be presented on-line. Optional review sessions and mandatory exams are all in LFS-A at Reedley College from 2-3pm on Fridays. E-mail me in advance if you need to take your exams at another time (within 1 week of the exam)

Office: Reedley College (RC) LFS-B, phone # (559) 638-3641 ext 3449

email:vmcornel@scccd.org  Write “CHEM8” as the subject

Office hours: MWF 10-11,  and F 9-10 and CHEM8 tutorials on Fridays 2-3pm in LFS-A

The first optional tutorial session is Friday August 22, 2008 @ 2 pm, in LFS-A at Reedley College. Send me an e-mail at the above address as I need your email and postal address to communicate with you and mail corrected assignments back to you. The first assignment is also due Friday August 22, 2008 by 2pm so start working on it ASAP.

Course objectives. Chem 8 is an elementary organic chemistry course for pre-med, pre-pharmacy, pre-dental, pre-vet students and forestry and ecology majors. In addition, dietetic majors and students that would like to have a better background in organic chemistry before starting the advanced organic chemistry (Chem 28A) may want to take this class. We will make a study of the reactions of principal functional groups with emphasis on theory and practical applications. In addition, some basic reaction mechanisms will be studied and with the aid of computer programs we will learn how to analyze Infrared (I.R.) Spectra and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (N.M.R.) Spectra. Organic Nomenclature is an essential component of this course as well as drawing Lewis diagrams. A computer program will be used to practice the naming of organic compounds.

Required Text book:  Paula Bruice “Essential Organic Chemistry”, published by Prentice Hall, 2006. 

Grading:  There will be four exams, which will cover the material discussed in the previous on-line lectures.  Exams will count 80% of your grade divided equally between the four exams. Homework assignments will count 20%.  The following break off is used for grading: A 90% or more, B 80-89%, C 70-79%, D 60-69%, F 59% or less. 

Fraudulent behavior (copying, peaking, cheating) during quizzes, exams and in home work assignments is graded with a zero (0%). 

Dates of exams:

Friday   9/19 @ 2-3pm in LFS-A

Friday   10/17 @ 2-3pm in LFS-A

Friday   11/14 @ 2-3pm in LFS-A

Friday 12/11 @ 10am-12 in LFS-A

Attendance: Attendance at the exams is mandatory, unless we have made an arrangement for a make-up exam with a special proctor assigned by me. Make-up exams must be taken within one week of the exam.

Optional Review Sessions: Every Friday from 2-3pm in LFS-A (unless an exam is assigned that day).  Students who attend these review sessions do a lot better in this course.

Drop date: The final drop date is FRIDAY October 17, 2008. After that day a letter grade (A-F) must appear on your transcripts. To avoid a "W", for withdrawal, you need to drop the class before Friday September 5, 2008.  If you wish to change to a Pass/No-Pass grading basis you need to do so before September 19.  If I have not received assignments from you for 2 weeks, and you have not contacted me during those two weeks, you may be dropped from the class (up until the drop-date).  

Homework: Homework will posted every week under “Assignments” on Blackboard. You need to mail, hand-deliver or scan and submit the assignments to me using the digital dropbox in Blackboard. Please don’t e-mail the scanned assignments to me as they are too large and will overfill my mailbox. Whichever way you choose the assignments must get to me before the due date and time. Late assignments will be accepted up to one week after the due date, but points will be deducted for every day they are late. It is essential to your success in this class that you read the chapters assigned from your textbook, read the notes posted on Blackboard, and complete the homework assignments on Blackboard every week. This course is the equivalent of a lecture class with 3 one hour lectures a week. You need to spend at least 6 hours a week studying the material and doing the homework assignments.  The average of graded homework is worth 20% of your final grade in the class. No make-up assignments will be given, but one homework assignment with the lowest grade will be dropped.

Important: If you have a verified need for an academic accommodation or materials in alternate media (i.e., Braille, large print, electronic text, etc.) per the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, please contact me as soon as possible.

Lecture topics.

We will cover half a chapter a week for the first two weeks, and then a chapter each week. The following topics and chapters will be covered:

1. Covalent Bonding and Shapes of Molecules. Lewis structures and calculation of electronegativity differences. Polar covalent and non-polar covalent bonds.

2. Acids and Bases.

3. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes. The basics of organic nomenclature.

4. Alkenes and Alkynes. Nomenclature

5. Reactions of Alkenes. The rule of Markovnikov and its mechanistic background.

7. Benzene and its Derivatives. Nomenclature and reactivity of substituted benzene rings

8. Chirality and stereo-isomerism. Asymmetric carbon atoms and their effects on stereochemical behavior.

10. Haloalkanes. Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions. Replacement of the halogen by nucleophiles such as cyanide, alkoxide and azide.

11. Alcohols, Ethers and Thiols. Nomenclature and synthesis of the three major functional groups.

15. Structure Determination: Infrared and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Analysis of IR and NMR spectra.

16/17/20/21. Biomolecules. An introduction to carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins and nucleic acids.

Recommended readings, computer programs and internet sites:

My copies of these textbooks are available to use in LFS-B.

1. Lampman, Organic Nomenclature. An introduction to the IUPAC System. Excellent tutorials on our laptops computers in LFS-B

2. Traynham: Organic Nomenclature

3. Great Organic Chem. Website: http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/intro1.htm

4. Bailey and Bailey, Organic Chemistry (previous textbook for this course). Study guide and solutions manual available at http://chemweb.calpoly.edu/cbailey/BaileyText/. Textbook still available in the RC library.

5. McMurry: Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry.

6. Solomons: Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry.

7. Brown: Introduction to Organic Chemistry.

 

CHEM8 Fall 2008

Week

Date

Assignment Due

     1

Aug 22

1: Chapter (1.1-1.4)

     2

Aug 29

2: Chapter (1.4-1.9) and (1.11-1.12)

     3

Sep 5

3: Chapter (2.1) and (3.1-3.4)

4

Sep 12

4: Chapter (3.5-3.10)

5

Sep 19

Exam 1

6

Sep 26

5: Chapter (4.1-4.2) and (4.4-4.5)

7

Oct 3

6: Chapter (4.7) and (5.1-5.12)

8

Oct 10

7: Chapter (6.1-6.2) and (7)

9

Oct 17

Exam 2 and the Drop Date

10

Oct 24

8: Chapter (8.1-8.10)

11

Oct 31

9: Chapter (10.1-10.4)

12

Nov 7

10: Chapter (11.1-11.4) and (11.6)

13

Nov 14

Exam 3

14

Nov 21

11: Chapter (15.12-15.16)

15

Nov 28

Thanksgiving Holidays

16

Dec 5

12: Chapter (17.1) and (17.6)

17

Dec 12

Final Exam