Chemistry 356, Organic Chemistry II
Course
Syllabus, Fall 2010
Catalog
Course Description: Organic
Chemistry II. 3 hrs. I, II, S.
Continuation of Chemistry 355. 3 lec. (PR: C or better in CHM 355)
Instructor: Dr. Robert J. Morgan Office: 486 Science
Phone: 696-3159 email: morganr@marshall.edu
Office
Hours: M-F 11-12, TR 2-4,
other times by appt
Required
Text: Sorrell, Organic
Chemistry, 2nd
ed., University Science Books,
2006
Lecture
Notes: Available on
Blackboard in Powerpoint format
Recommended: Molecular models
Optional: Solutions manual Or Sorrell, Organic
Chemistry
Optional:
Organic Chemistry: The
Official Guide.
Optional: http://www4.uwm.edu//chemexams/guides/details_guides.cfm?ID=163
Optional: http://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/intro1.htm
Objectives
a. To
become familiar with the vocabulary of organic chemistry.
b. To demonstrate
mastery of the fundamental skills of organic chemistry, reactions, mechanisms
synthesis, and spectroscopy
c.
To be able to use the
fundamental concepts to solve problems of a routine nature, and also those problems requiring creativity,
ingenuity and critical thinking.
Attendance Policy
Students are expected to attend all
classes. A large part of the learning process in this course is based on the
in-class activities. If you are not here you will not have a chance to
participate in those activities. There will be no makeup quizzes – if you miss
a quiz it will simply be one of the four that is dropped from the calculation.
If you miss a class it is your responsibility to get class notes from another
student in the class.
Academic Dishonesty
During exams you may not use your own paper
or other materials except your pen or pencil and a set of molecular models.
Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Academic dishonesty includes
unauthorized use of any materials, notes, sources of information, or study aids
or tools during a quiz or exam. It also includes the unauthorized assistance of
any person other that the course instructor during a quiz or exam, the
unauthorized viewing of another person’s work during a quiz or exam, or the
unauthorized securing of all or part of any quiz or exam before submission by
the instructor. The minimum penalty for academic dishonesty will be a failing
grade for the course.
Electronic Devices
I do not have any objection to students
taping my lectures but I doubt that it will help very much because the taped
lecture will not be very meaningful without the blackboard materials that go
with it. Cell phones, pagers, and the like must be turned off before entering
the classroom. Failure to comply with this can result in you being removed from
the classroom, even during an exam.
Grading
Quizzes: You will receive
numerous surprise quizzes at the beginning of class. Quizzes will typically cover
what you were supposed to learn during the previous class period. Quizzes the
day after an exam will typically be the one or two most frequently missed
questions from the
exam.
Exams: There will be three hour exams. All exams
are comprehensive and cover everything from the first day of the course up to
the class period before the exam. Make-up exams will only be given for
university excused absences as defined in the catalog.
Final Exam: The final exam
will be ACS Standardized examination in organic chemistry. It will be
comprehensive over the year of organic chemistry.
Calculation of Overall Average: The lowest quiz
scores (one drop for every 5 taken) will be dropped from the calculation. The
average of the remaining quizzes will count the same as an hour exam.
The overall average will be calculated by
two methods and the higher result will be used in determining the course grade.
Method
1.
The quiz average, each hour exam score, and the final exam score will be added
together and the total will be divided by 5. Thus, each exam counts 20%, the
quizzes count 20%, and the final counts 20%.
Method 2. The lowest exam score is dropped from the
calculation. The final exam counts double. The quiz average, the two best exams
scores, and double the final exam score will be added together and the total
will be divided by 5. Thus, each exam counts 20%, the quizzes count 20% and the
final exam counts 40%. Please note the absence of the terms, “scale or “curve”
in the above. The following scale is then applied to your final average:
A = 90%, B = 80%, C = 70%, D = 60%, F,
below 60%
Problems
Working
problems is an essential portion of the process of studying organic chemistry.
Work all of the problems that are imbedded in the text since these are designed
to allow you to test yourself on your understanding of the section(s). Many of these problems have multiple
parts. It will usually be sufficient to
work about one half of these unless you are having trouble with this type of
problem in which case you should work more. You should try to work all of the
problems at the ends of the chapters.
The links in the optional texts contain many extra problems with answers
to test yourself.
Notes on Spectroscopy
(Chapters 13-14)
Solving
spectroscopy problems is a skill that requires practice. To be successful in
this portion of the course it is essential that you practice problem solving.
Unfortunately, the textbook contains an inadequate number of problems for you
to become proficient in spectral interpretation. One way of obtaining
additional problems is to use the Internet. The list of sites below offer you an
opportunity to supplement the problems in our text. The list is by no means
complete, and you may find other sites by searching "NMR practice" or
browsing around chemistry/NMR/IR links.
http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~webspectra/
(A nice site with
a number of problems at several levels. As well as some helpful hints for
solving NMR and spectral problems with answers)
http://stuaff.ucdavis.edu/lsc/chem./118a/Jim/ProtonNMR.Probs.html
(A handful of NMR
problems with answers)
http://orgchem.colorado.edu/hndbksupport/spect.html
(A tutorial and
solved problems.)
http://riodb01.ibase.aist.go.jp/sdbs/cgi-bin/cre_index.cgi?lang=eng
(no problems, but
an extensive spectroscopic database of compounds. I often use this to obtain
exam problems)
Approximate Exam and Lecture Schedule
Date Chapter Topic
Aug. 23,25,27,30, Sept. 1 13 Proton
and Carbon NMR Spectroscopy
Sept. 3,8,10 14 Determining
the Structure of Organic Molecules
Sept. 13,15,17,20 15 Organometallic
Reagents and Chemical Syntheses
Sept.
22 13-15 Exam 1
Sept. 24,27,29, Oct. 1 17 The Chemistry of Benzene and its Derivatives
Oct. 4,6,8 18 Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of
Aldehydes and…
Oct. 11,13,15 19 Addition-Substitution
Reactions of Aldehydes and…
Oct. 18,20,22 20 Addition-Elimination
Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones
Oct.
25 17-20 Exam 2
Oct. 27,29,Nov. 1 21 Addition-Elimination
Reactions of Carboxylic acids and…
Nov. 3,5,8,10 22 The
Acid-Base Chemistry of Carbonyl Compounds
Nov. 12,15,17 23 The
Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Enolate Ions
Nov. 19 24 Conjugate Addition Reactions Unsaturated
Carbonyl…
Nov. 29 21-24 Exam 3
Dec. 1 25 The Chemistry of Polycyclic and
Heteroarmatic Arenes
Dec. 3,6 27 Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins
Dec
11 1-27 Final Exam