CHEM 227 - Organic Chemistry I

Summer 2003

Section 300 - 10:00 - 11:15 AM, Room 2102 Chemistry

Prof. Kenn Harding

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

It's in the doing that is the learning.

Ancient Chinese Proverb

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Sources of Some General Tutorials

• Visualization Tools and Interactive Tutorials - University of Michigan. Topics covered: Acid-Base Equilibria, Cycloalkane Visualization, Nucleophilic Substitution Dry Laboratory, Organic Reaction Roadmap.
• Visual Aids for Organic Chemistry from Colby College - Shockwave movies require Shockwave plug-in to your browser. Movies on "Orbitals" and on "Representing Compounds".

Reading and Problems assignments

Ionic-Covalent Bonding Pictures

Chapter 2 Helpful Hints

Lewis acid-base Pictures
Dipole Moment Pictures

On-line Tutorials

• Handout on "Lewis Dot Structures, Formal Charge, Resonance Structures & Arrows" - by Daniel Romo, Texas A&M University .

On-line Tutorials and Quizzes

• Complete Organic Nomenclature Tutorial - by Dave Woodcock, Dept. of Chemistry, Okanagan University (Versions for use with Chemscape Chime or with RasMol).
• Visual Aids for Organic Chemistry from Colby College - Shockwave movies require Shockwave plug-in to your browser. Movies on "Alkane Physical Properties" and "Cycloalkanes".

The Structure and Bonding Section of Organic Chemistsry On-Line on your CD-ROM has sections with reviews of: bonding and orbitals, hybridization, resonance and acids and bases.  It has review problem sets on: Conversions to and from line drawings, unshared pairs and formal charge, and drawing resonance forms.

The Alkanes and Cycloalkanes Section of OCOL covers both Chapters 3 and 4.  Thus portions of the tutorials and problem sets are relevant to Chapter 3.
 

• Alkanes in Motion - a Quicktime movie clip from Journal of Chemical Education Software (software by J. H. Kim, Kongju National University)

On-line Tutorials and Quizzes

• Conformations of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes (QuickTime Animations from Univ. of Arizona)
• Visual Aids for Organic Chemistry from Colby College - Shockwave movies require Shockwave plug-in to your browser. Movies on "What is a Dihedral Angle" and "Stereochemistry".
• Cybermodels by M. Schwartz at Florida State University. Includes a "Cybermodel Viewer" to easily compare structures side-by-side. Requires Chemscape Chime.

• OCOL - Mechanisms and Movies  See movie for addition of HBr to ethylene

Chapters 4 and 5 (Unit Test 2)

The Alkanes and Cycloalkanes Section of OCOL covers both Chapters 3 and 4.  Thus portions of the tutorials and problem sets are relevant to Chapter 3.

• OCOL - Mechanisms and Movies  See movie for addition of HBr to alkenes, transition state for hydride migration, formation of bromonium ion, formation of a bromohydrin, and hydroboration reaction.
• Use OCOL tutorials for review

    Alkyne and Acetylide Anion Pictures

Chapter 9

• OCOL - See Stereochemistry Section (6 tutorials and 7 sets of problems)
• Stereochemistry Online Page at Colby College- Two types of exercises are provided. One involves the classification of a given molecule as either chiral, achiral, or meso. The other exercise involves the comparison of two molecules, and the determination of their relationship as enantiomers, diastereomers, constitutional isomers, non-isomers, or identical compounds. Requires Chemscape ChimeTM plug-in.
• Stereochemistry Tutorial  - More than one Stereocenter (from Univ. of Arizona)
• The Stereochem Game - a tutorial designed to provide drill in stereochemical concepts (from Univ. of Arizona)

    Pictures - Radical Stability

Chapter Eleven- Reactions of Alkyl Halides

Pictures -
SN₂ Substitution
Substitution - Elimination
Animation of SN2 Reaction and of Elimination Reaction(from Univ. of Texas)
OCOL on CD - Animations of substitutions and eliminations

OCOL on CD - See Problem Sets for Chapter 11 (includes  problem sets that check your answers!)

Nucleophilic Substitution Dry Laboratory - including on-line Quiz (from Michigan State Univ.)

Tutorial on S_N2 Reactions - from Michigan State Univ. (includes visualization of structures along reaction coordinate)

Practice Questions for Nucleophilic Substitution (from Michigan State Univ.)

 

Old Exam Questions for Review

Unit Test 2 Review
Unit Test 3 Review
Chapter 9-10 Review

Organic Chemistry (Chaps 15 and 16) Review Questions

Chapter 17 Review Questions

TAMU OrganicChemistry Course Homepage
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