Calendar

This calendar contains lecture topics, reading assignments, and problem set and exam dates. The calendar also has links to problem sets, practice exams, additional study materials, and detailed outlines for different segments of the course.

WEEK # DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3
1 Lecture 1: Organic Structure Elucidation-IR Spectroscopy

Lecture Schedule (PDF)

Intoduction to 5.13

Unit 1 Study Guide (PDF)
Lecture 2: IR Spectroscopy

PS1 (PDF)
2 Lecture 3: IR cont., Mass Spectrometric (MS) Techniques

See Wade pp. 757-760 on Friedel Crafts Acylation
Lecture 4: MS Fragmentation Patterns Lecture 5: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

PS1 Due

PS2 (PDF)

FIDs Shown in Class (PDF)
3 Lecture 6: NMR

Styrene NMR at 90 MHz (PDF)

Ethanol NMR at 90 MHz in CDCl3 (PDF)
Lecture 7: Carbon NMR and Combined Analysis for Structure Elucidation

PS2 Due

Reference Data for Exam 1 (PDF)

Practice Exam (2002) (PDF)

Solution to the Practice Exam (PDF)

Para vs Meta Anisolealdehyde (PDF)
Lecture 8: Exam 1
4 Lecture 9: UV Visible Spectrometry, Fluoresence Lecture 10: Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Sulfides

PS3 (PDF)

Unit 2 Study Guide (PDF)
Lecture 11: Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Sulfides
5 Lecture 12: Alcohols, Ethers, Epoxides, Sulfides Lecture 13: Molecular Orbital Theory

PS3 Due

PS4 (PDF)
Lecture 14: Molecular Orbital Theory

Unit 3 Study Guide (PDF)
6 Lecture 15: Pericyclic Reactions Lecture 16: Pericyclic Reactions

PS4 Due

PS5 (PDF)

PS5 Solutions (PDF)
Lecture 17: Sigmatropic Shift Reactions

Practice Exam 2 (from 2002) (PDF)

Solution to the Practice Exam (PDF)
7 Lecture 18: Special Topics in Organic Electronics (Material to be tested on final) Lecture 19: Exam 2 Lecture 20: Amines

Tentative Schedule for the Second Half Section (PDF)

Outline for Amines and Carboxylic Acid (PDF)
8 Lecture 21: Amines

PS6 (PDF)

Practice Problems on Amines (PDF)
Lecture 22: Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives Lecture 23: Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
9 Lecture 24: Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives

PS7 (PDF)

PS6 Due

Practice Problems on Carboxylic Acids (PDF)
Lecture 25: Enols and Enolates Lecture 26: Enols and Enolates

Outline of Topics for Second Half (PDF)
10 Lecture 27: Enols and Enolates

PS8 (PDF)

PS7 Due

Practice Problems on Enols and Enolates (PDF)

Practice Exam for Exam 3 (From 2002) (PDF)

Solutions to the Practice Exam for Exam 3 (From 2002) (PDF)
Lecture 28: Optional Problem Solving Session

Practice Problems for Exam 3 (PDF)

Solutions for the Practice Problems for Exam 3 (PDF)
Lecture 29: Exam 3
11 Lecture 30: Enols and Enolates Lecture 31: Carbocations

PS9 (PDF)

PS8 Due
Lecture 32: Carbocations
12 Lecture 33: Carbocations Lecture 34: Radicals

PS10 (PDF)

PS9 Due
Lecture 35: Radicals
13 Lecture 36: Exam 4 Lecture 37: Radicals

Additional Practice Problems for the Final (PDF)
Lecture 38: Photochemistry

Practice Final (PDF)


A final exam will be given 5 days after the last lecture.