| Problems |
Key |
Topics
Covered |
| Week 1 |
|
Review
of bonding and Lewis structures; condensed and
bond-line structures |
| Week 2 |
|
Review of molecular
geometries, hybridization, formal charge, σ and π bonds and resonance |
| Week 3 |
|
Cis/trans isomers;
review of electronegativity and polarity, intermolecular forces, physical properties of molecules; functional groups |
| Week 4 |
|
Acids and bases; IR spectroscopy; Introduction to the use of "curved arrows
|
| Week 5 |
Key
|
Nomenclature |
| Week 6 |
Key |
More naming; degrees of unsaturation; Conformations of alkanes; Newman projections
|
| Week 7 |
|
Conformations cycloalkanes; chirality centers |
| Week 8 |
|
Stereochemistry: enantiomers and diastereomers; R/S nomenclature |
| Week 9 |
|
Substitution reactions; stability of carbocations
|
| Week 10 |
|
Substitution and elimination reactions; E/Z isomers of alkenes; relative stability of alkenes |
| Week 11 |
|
Elimination reactions; hydrogenation reactions, substitution reacitons of alkyne anions |
| Week 12 |
|
Addition reactions |
| Week 13 |
|
Additions to alkenes and alkynes; oxidation of alkenes; introduction to NMR spectroscopy
|
| Week 14 |
|
NMR spectroscopy: predicting number of signals for a compound, integration and multiplcity; interpreting NMR spectra
|
| Week 15 |
|
Naming alcohols and ethers; converting
alcohols to alkyl halides; epoxidation and ring opening of epoxides;
radical reactions; NMR and mass spectroscopy
|