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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Alkane Isomers

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 Chemistry Center