Instructor:

Jim Maxka
Office: BIO165
Tel: 523-6503
e-mail: jim.maxka@nau.edu
Office Hour: by appointment.

Books:Required:

Brown, Introduction to Organic Chemistry, 1997, Saunders Publishing.
Recommended: Study Guide to accompany Introduction to Organic Chemistry.

Class Meeting place:

Web -- no set times

Course Web page:

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmaxka/chm230/

Hour Exams:

There are no makeup exams. If the final exam grade percentage is higher than any one of the hour exams, the higher percentage grade will be recorded. So, learn the material and it will help you at the end. All exams must be proctored by someone I know or by a qualified testing center. The arrangements can be worked out differently for each exam depending on whatever is easiest for you.

Hour Exams

Before Oct. 1	Exam 1	100 pts
Before Nov. 1	Exam 2	100 pts
Before Dec 1	Exam 3	100 pts
Total		300 pts

 

Quizzes:

Quizzes will be submitted via the internet. Quizzes will be posted by on announced date of the week due and must be submitted in a week. All quiz assignments will be announced by e-mail and on the class schedule that will be posted on the course homepage. You may take the quiz as many times as you want. Your highest grade will be recorded.

List of 12 quizzes
10 points each 120 pts

Projects:

Projects will be submitted by e-mail. You therefore will need an e-mail account.
The due dates for projects is intentionally loose. They must be turned in before the final exam.

List of 3 projects
3@ 10pts each 30 pts

The final exam must be proctored in the same way as the hour exams. This means that you will have to prove your identity to whomever will be entrusted in verifying your exam. This may mean a fee.

Course Grade:
A 88%+
B 76%+
C 65%+
D 50%+
F <50%

Organic chemistry is about the structure and reactivity of chemical compounds based on carbon. This course will cover the important organic functional groups and consider some of the transformations that interconvert functional groups from one to another. No calculator needed. You will need to count to 4, learn a lot of new words and recognize shapes.

The class material will be available here. A mostly complete listing will be available by the second week of classes: Here is a look at the first two weeks.

M Aug 24: CH 1: Introduction. Functional Groups.

W Aug 26: CH 1: Ionic/Covalent Bonding. Lewis Structures.

F Aug 28 CH 1: Resonance. Pushing electrons. Hybridization.

M Aug 31: CH 1: Hybridization and shape.

W Sep 2: CH 2: Alkanes: Properties and Naming.

F Sep 4: CH 2: Alkanes: Isomerism and Conformations.

Labor Day.

W Sep 9: CH 2: Reactions of alkanes: Combustion and halogenation.