Organic Chemistry

Chemistry 211;  Fall 2007

 

INSTRUCTOR:

Prof. Tom Mitzel

Office:  Clement Chemistry #111, phone 297-5244

              e-mail:     thomas.mitzel@trincoll.edu

 

Office Hours:  M, W, F  7:30-8:30, 10:00-11:00

                        or JUST STOP BY

 

Home Phone:  257-3680 (before 9:30 PM)

 

SCHEDULE:

Lecture:    Mon., Wed., Fri.,    9:00-9:50 AM

Sections:   Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm (Prof. Mitzel),

                  Sunday evening at 7:00 pm (Katharine Spencer)

 

(Both meetings will take place in Clement 308)

 

TEXTBOOKS:

Organic Chemistry by Fox and Whitesell

Organic Chemistry by Thomas Sorrell

Interactive Organic Chemistry by Thomas Mitzel

 

You do not have to purchase a book, but those mentioned above will follow the class most closely.

 

Allyn and Bacon Molecular Model Kit or Molecular Visions Model Kit

 

    (Either of these kits will work but a model kit is strongly recommended)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL

READING:

Students are encouraged to read other chemistry texts found in the library or available from the instructor.  Occasionally, articles from current journals will be copied and made available to students.

 

SYLLABUS:

During the First Semester of Organic Chemistry, we will cover the following topics from Fox and Whitesell:

 

 

Chp. 1           Structure and Bonding

Chp. 2           Alkenes, Arenes, and Alkynes

Chp. 3           Functional Groups Containing Heteroatoms

Chp. 4           Spectroscopy

Chp. 5           Stereochemistry

Chp. 6           Understanding Organic Reactions

Chp. 7           Mechanisms of Organic Reactions

Chp. 12         Nucleophilic Addition and Substitution At Carbonyl Groups

 

The Chapters from Sorrell will appear as follows:

 

Chp. 2           Bonding in Organic Molecules

Chp. 5           Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms

Chp. 14         Determining the Structure of Organic Molecules

Chp. 3, 4       Conformation and Stereochemistry of Organic Molecules

Chp. 5           Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (with additional handouts)

Chp. 19, 20,                         Nucleophilic Addition and Substitution

         21, 22, 23, 24              At Carbonyl Groups

 

Will cover the 6 Chapters listed in "Interactive Organic Chemistry."

 

EVALUATION:

Quizzes:        Five or more quizzes will be given throughout the semester.

                      Each quiz will be worth 20 points.

 

 

Mid-Terms:  Three 1-hour exams will be given.  Each exam will be

                      worth 100 points.

 

 

Final:             One final will be administered which will be worth 200 points.

                      This will be a comprehensive examination of the material

                      covered throughout the semester.

 

 

The lowest score of the combined quizzes, a 1-hour exam, or half of the final will be dropped when determining your final grade for this course.  Problem sets will be assigned on a regular basis and will be graded.

 

PROBLEM SETS:

Problem sets will be handed out on Friday, and will be due the following Friday.  If you lose a problem set, you may get another copy off the following web site:

 http://www2.trincoll.edu/~tmitzel/chem211fold/chem211.html

 

Follow the links to the problem sets page and print a copy from there.

 

The answers to the problem sets will be posted on the same site the following week (The day they are due).

 

FINAL GRADE:

Your final grade will be calculated as shown below:

 

Quizzes, Mid-terms, Final:         400 points

Problem Sets:                               50 points (based upon work, not answer)

Laboratory Grade:                      100 points

 

Labs will be graded on a 10 point scale.  The final lab grade will be scaled to 100 points total (20% of the overall grade).

 

There will be no makeup quizzes!  Requests for re-grading of quizzes or exams must be submitted not later than 48 hours after return to the student.

 

TENTATIVE

EXAM DATES:

First Exam:             Monday, October 1

Second Exam:         Monday, November 5

Third Exam:            Wednesday, December 5

Final Exam:             Wednesday, December 19, 12:00 PM

 

LABORATORY:

Text:             Laboratory Manual, to be purchased in the Chemistry Office

 

You must be prepared for lab before arriving in order to finish your experiments on time.  This aspect of lab will be discussed more thoroughly during laboratory check-in procedures.

 

COMMENTS:

You may wish to study in groups.  By utilizing this type of setting, you may be able to help someone and vice versa.  Many of the greatest discoveries(or mistakes) in organic chemistry have been ascertained within a group setting and not by individuals.  Learning organic chemistry for the first time is often easier when studying within a group and not always individually.

 

 

You will also find that the more problems you do, the more comfortable you become with organic chemistry.  Problems will be presented in class, and as homework sets during the course of the semester.  Additional problems may be found in your book.  You are encouraged to work through them until you are comfortable with a given concept.

 

 

Many of the ideas in Organic chemistry will build upon one another and help to explain later material and areas.  With this in mind, it is important that you keep up with, and understand the material as we go along.  This means that if you have questions in class, ASK THEM.  If you do not get a chance to ask them during class, be sure to bring them up in either your section, or during my office hours.  You will find that if you keep up with the material, organic chemistry is not that difficult of a course.