Welcome to CHEM253
Organic Chemistry I
Fall 2008
Syllabus
Fall 2008
Schedule
Textbook: John
McMurry 7th ed. Companion Site
Why use
the textbook?
Link to CHEM253
laboratory webpage
Final Schedule:
MWF 10:30-11:20 à Wednesday, December
10 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
MWF 11:30-12:20 à Friday, December 12 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Practice
Exam I
Exam I
Practice Exam
II
Exam II
Practice Exam
III
Exam III
Practice Exam
IV
Exam IV
Learn to use ACD/ChemSketch 11.0 Freeware
ACD Chemsketch Tutorial
NMR related Websites:
SDBS
- Spectral Database for Organic Compounds – this is where I download most
the spectra on handouts. Search by name or chemical formula
Webspectra
from UCLA - tutorial and problem sets. You can check your answers
Structure
Elucidation Workbook from Notre Dame - problem sets - You have to ask me
for answers.
Organic Chemistry
Online from UIC - tutorial and problem sets with interesting helps. Answers
included.
“Far
from being a collection of isolated facts,
organic chemistry is a beautifully
logical subject that is unified by a few broad themes.”
John McMurry 1st paragraph of Chapter 5
Chapter 1
How to Draw
Lewis Structures:
youtube Hybridization Movie I
youtube
Hybridization Movie II
sp Hybrid
Orbital (Quicktime.MOV)
sp2
Hybrid Orbital (Quicktime.MOV)
sp3
Hybrid Orbital (Quicktime.MOV)
Methane
Molecular Orbitals (Quicktime.MOV)
Ethane
Molecular Orbitals (Quicktime.MOV)
Ethene Molecular Orbitals (Quicktime.MOV)
Ethyne Molecular Orbitals (Quicktime.MOV)
Animated
Molecular Orbitals and Hybrid Orbitals
(Shockwave)
Covalent
Bond
Molecular Orbitals
Chapter 2
Resonance
analogy
SPARC online calculator for pKa and other chemical properties
Proton
Exchange Between Water Molecules (Shockwave)
Proton
Exchange Between Many Water Molecules (Shockwave)
Proton
Exchange Between Hydrochloric Acid and
Water (Shockwave)
Proton
Exchange Between Acetic Acid and Water (Shockwave)
Transient
Hydrogen Bonding of Water (Flash)
Polarity in
Water: Hydrogen Bond Formation (Animation)
Water Dimer Animation (Animation)
Hydrogen
Bonding in Water -1
Hydrogen
Bonding in Water -2
Chapter 3:
Alkane Naming Links for 09/11/08
Lecture slide show – 41 slides http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~sglover/Alkanes_tutorial/index.htm
Quicktime lecture -- 20 mintues
- Nomenclature of
Alkanes: http://ochem.jsd.claremont.edu/tutorials.htm#
Online quiz – more than 30 questions - rather easy http://www.tfn.net/~pendarr/alkane-nomenclature/alkane-nomenclature-drill1.htm
Online quiz – 20 questions? - rather easy http://chemware.co.nz/orgquiz.htm
Online quiz – 12 questions – medium level http://www.sciencegeek.net/APchemistry/organic/alkanes.htm
Online quiz - more than 30 problems – medium level http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/247/js/names/dnames.htm
Interactive - write the name and the software will draw the structure. http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/247/js/names/wnames.htm
ACD software: Draw a structure then [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[I] to generate name
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Tetrahedral
Methane
Conformations
of ethane (gif animation)
Conformations
of ethane (gif animation)
Conformations
of butane (gif animation)
Cyclohexane animation
Cyclohexane animation
Animations
Chime
animations
Chapter 4
Radical Substitution Animation
(gif)
Free
radical Bromination Animation
Chapter 6
Substitution
Power Point
El
& E2 animations Bluffton College (gif and Shockwave)
Mechanism Movies
jbpub (Quicktime)
Powerpoint Alkene lecture Dr Ed Blackburn
(Chemistry Department, University of Alberta)
Chapter 6
SN2 animations: 1 (Quicktime)
SN2 animations: 2
(htm)
SN2 animations: 3 (htm in German)
SN2 animations: 4
(htm)
SN2 animations: 5 (chime)
SN2 animations: 6
(chime)
Links: Chapter 9
Stereochemistry
Online Page at Colby College – “Chime” plug in needed
U
of Arizona's Stereochem tutorial - build your own molecules and explore
their stereochemistry!
Organic Chemistry
online by Paul Young
Chirality
Power Point
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Sweetener Websites:
Low Calorie Sweeteners:
Consumer information site
Nutritive and Nonnutritive
Sweeteners: American Dietetics Association
Refined Sugar:
The Sweetest Poison of Them All
The Bitter Truth
About Artificial Sweeteners: Alternative to commercial claims.
All-natural Stevia Extract: Herbal alternative to artificial
sweeteners
Chewing Gum websites:
What’s Chewing Gum Made
of? How Stuff Works
Bubblegum.com (Wrigleys)
NMR related Websites:
Webspectra from UCLA - tutorial and problem sets. You can check your answers
Structure Elucidation Workbook from Notre Dame - problem sets - You have to ask me for answers.
Organic Chemistry Online from UIC - tutorial and problem sets with interesting helps. Answers included.
Links:
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names: “And now for something completely different.”
University of Akron Animations - a mix of quicktime animations for Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and other stuff from a General, Organic and Biochemistry Course
Colby College - Visual Aids for Organic Chemistry - Interesting shockwave visualizations for first few chapters of Organic Chemistry
How Stuff Works - Your Body - You've Always wanted to know
Albertus Magnus - Patron Saint of the