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May 9, 2012
The results of the final exam, and your final points total and your grade for the class are now posted in the "Your Points" page. Click HERE. Remember to hit refresh on any page if something does not look right.
Now that the final points have been posted there is no way for you to change them, there is no extra credit, no way of changing any points for any reason, please do not ask. I have personally regraded all of the final exams for all students who were within 30 points of the grade cutoffs. There will be no further regrades.
It has not escaped my attention that several of you have points totals that are close to the cutoffs, however, I have already looked at your final exams and I am very sorry, there are just no more points for you to earn. If this is you, I understand your frustration and you have my sympathy, but please remember that the majority of students who earned the higher grade scored more than 100 points more than you did.
As above, now that the final grades have been posted there is no way for your to change your grade. The only exceptions are if there has been a serious data entry error. If you find one then send me an email.
You will be able to pick up you final exams, but not until next week. I am going out of town tomorrow and will not be back on campus until the middle of next week, I will make an announcement on this site when you may pick them up.
Many of you worked extremely hard in this class, I know that it was very time consuming. I thank you all, I very much enjoyed teaching this class this semester, and I enjoyed working with you all.
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The TAs are grading the tests right now, we hope to have the grading finished by Wednesday. After all of the tests are graded, I will then go and personally regrade the test of every student who is within 30 points of any grade cutoff to see if I can find the points you will need for the higher grade. These are the only regrades for the final, you will not be able to request one.
I then hope to enter the grades on Thursday morning. I will send an announcement by email when they are posted so that you don't have to keep checking every 5 mins all morning!
After the final grades are posted there will be no way for you to change that grade, no more regrades, no extra credit, nothing, please don't ask me. The only exceptions, obviously, will be clerical grade entry errors, and they have been know to occur with so many to enter. If you are within a few points of a grade cutoff it will not have escaped my attention, since I will have already re-graded your final. It will just be the case that the points are not there for you to get the higher grade, sorry. You need to accept that most of the people who got the higher grade probably scored at least 100 points more than you did.
You will be able to pick up your final exam from my office, but not until next week since I need to go out of town for a few days at the end of this week. I should be back by around Tuesday. My schedule will be unsettled next week, but you can try my office at any time although I can't promise to be there all day every day.
I have really enjoyed teaching you all this semester, not just those who have slogged through the entire 2-semester sequence, but everyone! I enjoy teaching every class, you are not unique in that regard, sorry:)
Obviously, this is a very large class. For this reason and also because so many questions are now answered on the class website, I meet only a tiny fraction of you in person in office hours. Nevertheless, by the end of the second semester I have at least some feel for the unique character of each class. Your class has great character (and also one or two very strange characters, you know who you are :) I feel honored for having had the opportunity to teach and learn with you all.
Thank you for working so hard, organic is a class that takes a lot of time, I know that, so much time that for some of you the grade you get is determined by how much time you could commit rather than your innate cognitive ability or motivation, and I am sorry that it turns out that way sometimes.
Thank you for participating in our joint learning experience this semester, I wish you all success in your future academic endeavors.
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May 5, 2013
I was asked for a flowchart or something similar for amine synthesis, turns out that it is not easy (or really) possible to do, there are too many variations. There are certainly some principles that always seem to work, but there are no simple rules, and there are so many possibilities that I am not sure how useful these principles or guidelines are. Anyway, here they are, maybe useful to some people? Click HERE.
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May 5, 2013
At the review session yesterday I promised a summary of the mechanism that are direct form the notes that you would have to know since the 3rd midterm, to see this, click HERE. For the final you will also need to be able to solve mechanism problems that are not directly from the notes. Examples of these can be found in the problem set (pages 13, 17 and 21). Examples are also found HERE, and I have added some more general mechanism problems to this page today.
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There will be NO spectroscopy on the final exam, and the Real-Life questions will come from assigned work weeks 13 - 16 (only)
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May 4, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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May 4, 2013
The deadline for completing the homework problems for credit has been extended until the end of the day today, Saturday May 4.
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May 4, 2013
OK, so, here is a reaction list for the final that covers the reactions SINCE THE 3RD MIDTERM (only), click HERE.
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May 3, 2013
I was recently asked for a summary of reducing agents, I hope these will be useful rather than confusing….. click HERE and HERE.
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May 3, 2013
For a list of know errors in Problem Set #4, click HERE.
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May 1, 2013
I will start to collect materials for reviewing specific topics here:
Pericyclic Reactions
Enols/Enolates and Aldol Reactions
Aldol Reactions and Claisen Reactions (only)
Amine Synthesis (and some amine basicity at the end)
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May 1, 2013
Click HERE for additional mechanism practice (with some video explanations), including the basic acid and base catalyzed mechanisms such as keto/enol tautomerization, hydrate formation etc.
Click HERE for additional nomenclature practice (with video explanations)
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Apr 24, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the "Amines" section of the notes has been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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May 1, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. The second review session will be Saturday 4 - 6PM, meet outside LS A-191 and if it is use we will go and find another room.
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Apr 30, 2013
The review session from 4/13, that was missing audio, has been re-recorded with audio and is on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Apr 30, 2013
Your points for all midterms after all regrades and all of the quizzes, the total of your total quiz scores (QTot), your total points after dropping the lowest 4 quizzes (Q-4) and your total quiz points (Q Pts), determined as (Q-4)/2, rounding up, have been posted on the "your points" page. Your final points total for the semester will be determined as the sum of your midterm scores + Q Pts + homework points + points for the final exam.
ANY ERRORS IN THESE POINT TOTALS MUST BE BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY THE END OF THE DAY, FRIDAY MAY 2ND!! THERE WILL BE NO MORE CHANGES TO THESE POINTS AFTER MAY 2ND!
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Apr 30, 2013
HOMEWORK POINTS: All credit for the homework must be completed by the end of the day, Friday, May 3rd. To receive all 50 homework points you will need to have accumulated 500 credit questions by the end of the day May 3rd. Homework points will be normalized to a maximum of 50 points according to the following: 500 or more credits = 50 points, 400 credits = 40 points, 300 credits = 30 points, e.g. 346 credit questions accumulated = 35 points, 120 credit questions = 12 points etc.
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Apr 30, 2013
As mentioned in class on Monday, there will be TWO TYPES of synthesis question on the final exam. One type could, in principle, use any reaction from the entire semester, but in reality will focus on the reactions that were covered towards the end of the semester, specifically carboxylic acids, derivatives and amines. The other kind will use reactions only from a "minimal set" of functional group interconversions and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, specifically Grignard and acetylide reactions. To see this "minimal set" if functional group interconversions and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, click HERE and HERE.
Practice simple synthesis problems that use this minimal set are found on page 37 of Problem Set #4.
There are also 18 new synthesis problems on the Homework website (Extra Questions at the end of the page) that use this minimal set of reactions.
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Apr 29, 2013
Problem Set #4 has been posted. Use it to study for the final exam.
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Apr 29, 2013
To see the reagents chart for the reactions of diazonium salts that will be stapled to your final exam, click HERE.
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Apr 27, 2013
In the Review session today I left you with 3 amine synthesis problems to solve, to see all 3 problems, click HERE, to see my answers, click HERE, HERE and HERE.
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Apr 27, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Apr 26, 2013
The results for midterms #1, #2 and #3 have now been posted on the "Your Points" page, after all regrades for all exams, and including the extra 7 points, up to a maximum of 180 for midterm #1. Also included are your scores for the first 8 quizzes, including the corrected score for Quiz #5, which was originally graded incorrectly. Please check to make sure that there are no errors, thanks. The complete quiz scores will be posted on Tuesday May 2nd (the lowest 4 will be dropped). I will post later this weekend on the homework points assignment.
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Apr 26, 2013
There will be TWO pre-final review sessions. The first will be Wednesday May 1st, 10AM - Noon, in LS E-104. The second will be Saturday May 4th, 4 - 6PM. On Saturday I am not able to reserve a room, so assemble OUTSIDE LS A-191, if LS A-191 is in use we will go and find another room. The reviews will cover different material, the first will be mainly review of older stuff and the second will cover mainly newer stuff, both will be recorded as usual.
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Apr 26, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours tomorrow, Saturday, 4 - 6PM, in PS H-132. The subject will be Synthesis/reactions of carboxylic acids and derivatives, with emphasis on synthesis strategies. It will be recorded and will also be "live" via online office hours as usual.
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Apr 25, 2013
The final Quiz #14 has been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Apr 28th. It is a SURVEY QUIZ! There are no correct or incorrect answers, ALL students who submit this quiz will get full credit/full points! But please remember to submit it by the deadline!
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Apr 24, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated.
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Apr 24, 2013
My versions of the completed notes for the "Enols/Enolates", "Acids" and "Acid Derivatives" sections of the notes have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use these versions to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Apr 20, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Apr 20, 2013
There will be a review session today, Saturday April 20, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be more enols/enolates, Aldols, Claisens, Malonic ester.
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Apr 15, 2013
A new Quiz #13 has been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Apr 21st.
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Apr 14, 2013
The results for midterm #3 have now been posted. The exams will be returned in class on Monday Apr. 15th.
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Apr 13, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page, however, there is no audio, sorry!
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Apr 12, 2013
There will be a review session tomorrow, Saturday April 13, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be enolizable hydrogens, enols, enolates and Aldol reactions.
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Apr 12, 2013
The homework problems for enols/enolates will be posted later today.
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Apr 11, 2013
A new Quiz #12 has been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Apr 14th.
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Apr 7, 2013
I accidentally set the quiz deadline to 4PM today, I just reset it to 8PM.
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Apr 7, 2013
In Review session #2 I left you with a mechanism problem to solve, to see the problem, click HERE, to see my answer, click HERE. I also left 2 synthesis problems, click HERE and HERE to see the questions, and HERE and HERE to see my answers.
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Apr 5, 2013
OK, so, here is a reaction list for midterm #3, click HERE.
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Apr 5, 2013
You can ignore problem a) on page 3 of the problem set, it really is an enols/enolates problem. For a list of know errors in Problem Set #3, click HERE.
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Apr 4, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the "Aldehydes/Ketones" section of the notes has been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use these versions to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Apr 3, 2013
Review Sessions for midterm #3. There will be TWO review sessions, the first will be tomorrow, Thursday April 4th, 6 - 8PM in LS A-191. The second will be on Saturday, April 6th in LS A-191, 4 - 6PM. The review sessions will cover different material and both will be recorded for those who can not attend. Both will be problem-solving based.
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Apr 3, 2013
Unfortunately I have to be off campus late this afternoon, therefore BOTH in-person AND online office hours this evening are cancelled, apologies!
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Apr 2, 2013
For a list of know errors in Problem Set #3, click HERE.
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Apr 2, 2013
Problem Set #3 has been posted. Use it to study for the second midterm.
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Apr 1, 2013
A new Quiz #11 has been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Apr 7th.
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Apr 1, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated.
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Mar 30, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Mar 30, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours today, Saturday Mar 30th, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be benzene reactions and synthesis.
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Mar 28, 2013
The results for midterms #1 hand #2 ave now been posted on the "Your Points" page, after all regrades for both exams, and including the extra 7 points, up to a maximum of 180 for midterm #1. Also included are your scores for the first 8 quizzes, including the corrected score for Quiz #5, which was originally graded incorrectly. Please check to make sure that there are no errors, thanks.
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Mar 26, 2013
A new Quiz #10 has also been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Mar 31st.
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Mar 26, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the "Benzenes" section of the notes has been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use these versions to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Mar 25, 2013
Preparing (already) for the next midterm. It is very important to know what you know when preparing for an organic exam. Now that we have completed the chemistry of benzenes, you can try to see how much benzene chemistry you know (or don't know yet), by taking a mini-exam just in benzene chemistry. Take the test and preferably give it to someone else in class to grade it! This may help to get you calibrated on at least this part of the coursework. To get the test, click HERE. To get the answer key, click HERE.
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Mar 23, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Mar 22, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours tomorrow, Saturday Mar 23rd, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be aromatic transition state theory and pericyclic reactions.
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Mar 19, 2013
A new Quiz #9 has also been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Mar 24th.
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Mar 19, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated.
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Mar 19, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Sections "Conjugated Systems" and "Aromatic Systems" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use these versions to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Mar 11, 2013
The results for midterm #1 have now been posted on the "Your Points" page, after all regrades and including the extra 7 points, up to a maximum of 180. Also included are your scores for the first 8 quizzes, including the corrected score for Quiz #5, which was originally graded incorrectly. Please check to make sure that there are no errors, thanks.
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Mar 11, 2013
The results for midterm #1 have now been posted on the "Your Points" page, after all regrades. I will be adding your quiz score to this page later this week.
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Mar 11, 2013
The results for midterm #2 have now been posted. The exams will be returned in class on Monday Mar. 18th.
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Mar 4, 2013
I decided that I needed to change (update) the notes for aromatic transition state theory, these were originally pages 21 - 26 in the original version of the Conjugated notes. To get the updated gapped notes for this section, click HERE. I will have hard copies of the updated gapped notes for distribution in class tomorrow, Wednesday March 6th.
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Mar 4, 2013
NO QUIZ THIS SUNDAY (spring break). No quiz next Sunday either.
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Mar 3, 2013
I am not sure why the answer key for Quiz #8 is not showing up, anyway, to see it, click HERE.
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Mar 2, 2013
You can ignore the whole of page 13 of the problem set, we did not cover that material in class.
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Mar 1, 2013
To see a video of the "fingers and thumbs" method for electrocyclic reactions that I mentioned in class today, click HERE. To see a video about using F.M.O. theory and a model kit for electrocyclic reactions, click HERE.
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Mar 1, 2013
At the review session yesterday I left a synthesis problem for you to solve on your own. To see the question, click HERE. To see the answer, click HERE.
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Feb 28, 2013
This evenings Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Feb 27, 2013
Review Sessions for midterm #2. There will be TWO review sessions, the first will be tomorrow, Thursday Feb 28th, 6 - 8PM in PS F-166. The second will be on Saturday, March 2nd in LS A-191, 4 - 6PM. The review sessions will cover different material and both will be recorded for those who can not attend. Both will be problem-solving based.
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Feb 27, 2013
A new Quiz #8 has also been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Mar 3rd.
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Feb 26, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Ethers" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Feb 26, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated for this Week. All of the Conjugated problems relevant to midterm #2 are now on the Homework/Problems page.
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Feb 25, 2013
I am not a big fan of reaction lists (you should make your own!!), but these things inevitably surface, so, here is a list for midterm #2. It contains the most important reactions from midterm #1 and removes quite a few less important ones. I'll try to make sure that I do not put any reactions on midterm #2 that are not on this list, WITH the exceptions noted below...
There is a lot of midterm #2 material that just can't be put on a list, Diels-Alders and pericyclic reactions most obviously, so this is just a reagent list, not a list of everything you need to be able to do. To see the list, click HERE.
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Feb 25, 2013
I have to move office hours for Tuesday Feb 26th FROM 9 - 10AM TO 8 - 9AM because of an important meeting that I can't change. Apologies for the late notice
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Feb 25, 2013
Problem Set #2 has been posted. Use it to study for the second midterm.
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Feb 25, 2013
At the review session on Saturday I left two synthesis questions at the end for you to solve on your own. To see the questions, click HERE. To see the answers, click HERE.
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Feb 25, 2013
For an important video announcement regarding midterm #2 (easier than typing on here!), click HERE.
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Feb 23, 2013
REMINDER:
The SI leader for this semester is Will Evans, and the session times and locations are:
Tuesday: 6-7 PM in ECA 219 (note this is a different day from the one first announced on this page at the start of the semester)
Wednesday: 3-4 pm in Social Sciences 205
Thursday: 6-7 pm in PSA 118
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Feb 23, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Feb 23, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours today, Saturday Feb 23rd, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be ethers/spoxides.
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Feb 22, 2013
A new Quiz #7 has also been posted. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Feb 24th.
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Feb 19, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated for this Week and last week. The Ethers/Epoxides problems are now fully loaded on the Homework/Problems page.
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Feb 19, 2013
It turns out that I made an error in writing the test, I put a question on the test of a kind that in one of the review sessions I said would not be included. This was part c of Question #4. For that reason I will add the 7 points for that question to the exam total for every student in the class, including those who got the question correct anyway, because this is the easiest way to handle this situation. Because nobody is competing against anybody else in this class I don't think that will cause any problems. When I update the "your points" page on the website (after the regrade deadline so don't look there yet), you will see that you have an extra 7 points for this midterm. Apologies! Please do not submit any regrade requests for Question #4 part c.
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Feb 17, 2013
The results for midterm #1 have now been posted.
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Feb 15, 2013
Tomorrow, Saturday Feb 16th there will NOT be a review session since we will be grading, but I will be available to talk to students 1-on-1. I will either be in my office or I will be in the LRC, I will leave a sign on my door.
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Feb 15, 2013
Todays lecture has been posted. I lost the few 10 mins or so of the recording and so I had to redo that part, and so the first port is from my office and the rest of it is from the classroom, which is why it has a break after ca. 10 mins
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Feb 14, 2013
A new Quiz #6 has also been posted. There was a grading error in Quiz #5 that we are working on to fix, apologies. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Feb 17th.
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Feb 12, 2013
While we all wait for the test to be graded, you can click HERE (longish movie file), for an insight into my somewhat idiosyncratic teaching philosophy. Many thanks to the Origins Project Club, and Divyash Chhetri in particular, for the invitation!
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Feb 9, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Organometals" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Feb 9, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Feb 9, 2013
To see a list of "concept" questions/statements, click HERE (pdf file), at least one of these will be reproduced exactly as given here on the midterm exam.
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Feb 7, 2013
An issue for this upcoming test is all of the reactions that we have recently learned, there are a lot of them. Learning how to handle a lot of information like this is one of the things I hope you will learn from this course. You need to be very systematic in handling the reactions, make sure that you know what you are supposed to know, and what you currently know. An obvious way to do this is to make a list. There are many such lists around, but by far the best thing to do is to go through the notes and MAKE YOUR OWN LIST! The simple process of making the list will be helpful, and YOUR list will be much more useful to you that someone else's list. For a little lecturing on lists and how to use them, go to minute 43 HERE.
It turns out that I had forgotten but I do have my own list! It is a little different from many of the others because it is arranged (mainly) in terms of the functional groups are are the PRODUCTS of the reactions, and as such may be useful in learning how to solve synthesis problems. I am reluctant to distribute this list, because it is not YOURS, however, I have decided to do so anyway, and I hope that you will use it sparingly and properly. You really need to make sure that you know the reactions on this list. Soooo, to get it, click HERE (pdf file).
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Feb 7, 2013
This evenings Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. In the review session at ca. 43 minutes I talked about a method for learning the reactions using a list, what I showed the class is essentially the same thing as on one of the small movies on the website under Study Advice: click HERE
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Feb 6, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated for this Week.
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Feb 6, 2013
The answer key for Quiz #4 has been posted and a new Quiz #5 has also been posted. It is a quiz mainly about Grignard reactions, to help you prepare for the midterm. The deadline for submitting the quiz is 6PM Sunday Feb 10th.
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Feb 6, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Alcohols" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors. The version of the alcohols notes that I posted are slightly expanded compared to the gapped version, the section on oxidation and reduction is slightly expanded.
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Feb 6, 2013
MIDTERM #1: The material you are responsible for midterm #1 is as given on the schedule, i.e. M - P, Retrosynthesis - Organometals. I will post the Organometals notes before the end of this week. We will finish the Organometals notes on Friday, the rest of Friday's lecture on ethers will not count for midterm #1. I need you to maintain an understanding of how to solve spectrum problems (I have been posting these every week and there are some on the problem set), and so there could be a spectrum problem on every exam this semester. In reality there is not room for a spectrum on every test, so interpret that any way you wish!
One obvious problem with this midterm is that you are required to know a lot of reactions/reagents/conditions, and you need to have a method for getting this under control, knowing what you need to know and if you know it all yet. I will post some advice on this later today or tomorrow.
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Feb 6, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Alcohols" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors. The version of the alcohols notes that I posted are slightly expanded compared to the gapped version, the section on oxidation and reduction is slightly expanded.
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Feb 6, 2013
Review Sessions for midterm #1. There will be TWO review sessions, the first will be tomorrow, Thursday Feb 7th, 6 - 8PM in PS F-166. The second will be on Saturday, Feb. 9th in LS A-191, 4 - 6PM. The review sessions will cover different material and both will be recorded for those who can not attend. Both will be problem-solving based.
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Feb 2, 2013
Problem Set #1 has been posted. Use it to study for the first midterm.
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Feb 2, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Feb 1, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours tomorrow, Saturday Feb 2nd, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be solving mechanism problems.
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Jan 29, 2013
This is an announcement specifically for those students who did NOT take my CHM 233 class in Fall 2012: If you did not take my CHM 233 class and are feeling a bit lost, we may have some help for you. Several of the students in our current CHM 234 class have offered to provide tutoring specifically for you as a way of fulfilling an honors contract. These students all did very well last semester. Their job will be mainly to introduce you to the studying methods that work for this class, they all clearly know how to study very well. They can't be responsible for tutoring you on the content, since they are only learning themselves this semester, but they should be able to get make sure that you are studying correctly. If you think this would be beneficial to you please send me an email and I will get you in contact with one of the tutors. We only have a few of these tutors and so it will have to be strictly first come first served, so get your emails into me as soon as you can.
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Jan 29, 2013
For a video message on class procedures now that we are into the semester, and a bit of study advice, click HERE. One thing I forgot to include in this video is a reminder of the weekly assigned/suggested work page, click HERE.
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Jan 28, 2013
Don't forget, there is a weekly page of suggested work "assignments". This page has recently been updated.
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Jan 27, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Alkynes" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors. The version of the alkynes notes that I posted are slightly expanded compared to the gapped version you gave to include small topics that I talked about but did not include in the original version.
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Jan 26, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. The recording ends after 1 hour in the middle of the last problem, at which point the computer decided to crash, for some reason. I did another recording of how to solve the last problem, to see it, click HERE.
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Jan 26, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours today, Saturday Jan 26th, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be synthesis problems that include C-C bond forming reactions.
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Jan 25, 2013
THERE WAS A TYPO IN QUESTION #9, QUIZ #3. The second reagent for option D was incorrect, it should have been K+-O-t-Bu instead of Na+-OMe. This has been fixed in the version of the quiz on the website now. I also changed Question #2 in Quiz #3 a little, no reagents were changed (there were no errors) I just rewrote some of the reagents so that they are more in the format that we used in lecture, for clarity.
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Jan 22, 2013
The answer key for Quiz #2 has been posted and a new Quiz #3 has also been posted. The deadline for submitting Quiz #3 is 6PM, Sunday Jan. 27th.
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Jan 22, 2013
My version of the completed notes for the Section "Retrosynthesis" have been posted on the Lecture Materials page. Please use this version to make sure that your notes are complete and have no errors.
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Jan 19, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Jan 19, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours today, Saturday Jan 19th, 4 - 5PM in PS H-132. The subject will be reverse SN2, synthons and mechanisms (bits of everything!).
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Jan 18, 2013
The answer key for Quiz #1 has been posted and a new Quiz #2 has also been posted. The new Quiz #2 has 2 questions that include a reagent that we have not yet covered in class. Therefore, questions TWO and NINE of Quiz #2 are now deleted from the quiz. You can put ANY answer for questions #2 and #9, everybody who submits a quiz will full credit for those questions. The deadline for submitting quiz #2 is 6PM, Sunday Jan. 20th. From now until the end of the semester the deadline for submitting all quizzes will be 6PM Sunday each week.
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Jan 15, 2013
The homework/quiz webpage is now open. For instructions on how to use this page click HERE. Don't forget to submit Quiz #1 before midnight tomorrow, Wednesday January 16th.
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Jan 14, 2013
Lecture #4 has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. From now one I will not be announcing these, please check to see if the lecture has been posted yourself.
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Jan 14, 2013
The Weekly Work page has been updated for Weeks one and two. The Homework Problems/Quiz website should open tomorrow, Tuesday Jan 15th.
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Jan 12, 2013
Todays Review Session has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page.
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Jan 12, 2013
There will be a review session/office hours today, Saturday Jan 12th, 4 - 5Pm in PS H-132. The subject will be simple retrosynthesis and last semesters reactions.
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Jan 11, 2013
Lecture #3 has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. No audio/video synch problem!
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Jan 9, 2013
Lecture #2 has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. It also has the audio/video synch problem. I re-recorded lecture #2 in my office and both versions of the lecture are now on the Recorded Lectures page. The original in-class recording is usable, but it is annoying.
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Jan 9, 2013
The SI leader for this semester is Will Evans, and the session times and locations are:
Monday: 7-8 pm in Hayden C-52
Wednesday: 3-4 pm in Social Sciences 205
Thursday: 6-7 pm in PSA 118
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Jan 7, 2013
For those of you who do not want to mess with printing the notes, Alternative Copy will have some pre-printed versions you can buy on the spot. They did not give me a price, however.
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Jan 7, 2013
Lecture #1 has been posted on the Recorded Lectures page. There was a small problem with this video file, the audio and the video got slightly out of synch (a few seconds), not sure how that happened, this is a very rare problem, I hardly ever had this before, I don't expect this to happen again this semester. I think that the video lecture should still be fairly easy to follow, even with the synch problem.
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Jan 6, 2013
All quizzes this semester will be on the homework/quiz webpage, however, that page will not open until after the drop/add deadline, which is Monday Jan. 14th. For this reason, quiz #1 is posted on this main announcement page so that you can start to work on it. To see Quiz #1 (pdf file) click HERE. You will submit the quiz on the homework/quiz page once it opens, I will give instructions here and in class. The homework/quiz page will open some time during the day, Tuesday Jan 15th, and the deadline for submission of the quiz will be 11:59PM, Wednesday Jan. 16th.
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Jan 4, 2013
Most of you were in my CHM 233 class, Fall 2012, and so to save time I will not be repeating most of the class policies/study advice/why study organic chemistry stuff that I normally do on the first day of class. Instead I have recorded this information, in case you would like to refresh your memory, or if you are taking one of my classes for the first time, to watch this short video, (click HERE). I have also recorded an additional information/introduction video for this of you who are in the on line/hybrid class, click HERE.
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Jan 3, 2013
The gapped lecture notes for Spring 2013 are now available. Take the downloaded file(s) to any local print shop, Kinkos, Staples etc. In the past, students have been able to get the notes printed for as little as $10 - $15, but the average price seems to be a bit higher than that. I have sent a copy of the pdf file to Alternative Copy on Mill Avenue opposite the Nelson Fine Arts Center, they will print it for you, but I don't know what the cost will be. I can't tell you where you will get the best printing deal because this seems to change every semester, but check the Facebook site (click HERE), Jake has some good ideas! You can get the notes for the first couple of lectures by printing the first 8 - 10 pages of the "Retrosynthesis" notes, click HERE.
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Jan 2, 2013
This class uses "gapped" lecture notes that you complete in class. They will be available as individual pdf files under the Lecture Material tab. You can print these and bring them to lecture, or you can save money by downloading the entire notes set as a zip file, there will be a link under the the Lecture Material tab. Take the downloaded files to any local print shop, Kinkos, Staples etc. I can't tell you where you will get the best printing deal because this seems to change every semester. In the past, students have been able to get the notes printed for as little as $10 - $15, but the average price seems to be a bit higher than that. You can also get the notes for the first lectures by printing the first 8 - 10 pages of the "Retrosynthesis" notes, click HERE.
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Jan 2, 2013
A textbook is recommended for this class but is not required. The textbook is Organic Chemistry, 3rd Edition, by J.G. Smith. If you use the textbook it is critical that you also get the accompanying Solutions Manual, since the problems are the MOST IMPORTANT part of the textbook. I will provide suggested reading and problems from the 3rd Edition of Smith ONLY. I will not be able to suggest reading or problems from any earlier edition of Smith, or from any other textbook. If you have any other textbook, it should be fairly easy for you to find the appropriate reading and problems yourself.
Many students will ask me if they should get the textbook. Unfortunately I am not able to give a satisfactory answer, since different students have very different needs. Some students really need to study from a textbook and appreciate learning a topic from a different perspective. Some students want a permanent textbook to study for the MCAT, for example. It is also true that you can learn most of what you need to know from just about any organic textbook. You have to make your own decision on this I am afraid, however, I have found that most students will not use the textbook.
Note that the lab is a separate course, the textbook for the lab course is required.
A Molecular Model Kit, IS NOT REQUIRED for CHM 233, we will use a model kit much less than in CHM 233. The best kit is the HGS 1013/1013A Organic Chemistry Set for Students (click here). There is a more sophisticated version of the HGS kit, 1003 Organic Chemistry set C, however, the less expensive 1013 version works well enough for CHM 233. The 1013/1013A kit is available from Amazon, for ca. $20. Also acceptable (but not quite as good) is the Molecular Visions Darling Molecular Model Kit that may be in the ASU bookstore.
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Jan 2, 2013
This class has two sections, a "Regular/Onground" class (SLN 10286), that has regular lecture M, W, F, 7:30AM - 8:20AM in LS A-191, and an "Online/Hybrid" class (SLN 17849). The two classes are essentially identical. Students who are registered for the Online/Hybrid class (SLN 17849) are welcome to attend lecture. Those in the Regular/Onground class will quickly find that all lectures are recorded and they do not need to come to class to watch each lecture if they choose not to. Apart from the method of lecture delivery, which will become a matter of choice for students in both classes soon after the start of the semester, everything about the two classes is identical. Both will have the same teaching/learning materials, both will have the same quizzes, and both will have the same exams, given at exactly the same time, just in different classrooms.
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