Lecture Schedule for Chemistry 250
Fall 2009

Updated 12/10/09

• 31 Introduction and Course Information
  • Discussion Worksheet #1

•  1 Chapter 1: A Simple Model For Chemical Bonds
•  3 Suggested Problems: 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, 34, 40
•  4 Chapter 2: Organic Compounds: A First Look
  • Suggested Problems: 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39
  • Stability Rules (PDF)



•  7 No Classes (Labor Day)
•  8
• 10 Chapter 3: Orbitals and Bonding
  • Quiz/HW#1 -- Answer Key (PDF)
• 11 Suggested Problems: 21, 22, 24, 25, 26-29, 31, 31, 34, 35



• 14 Finish Chapter 3
• 15 Chapter 4: The Acid-Base Reaction
  • Suggested Problems: 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34-37, 40, 43, 47
  • Quiz/HW #2 -- Answer Key
  • Some pKa's Worth Knowing
• 17 ChemDraw Homework Due Today
  • ChemDraw File
• 18



• 21
• 22 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4) -- Answer Key
  • Exam 1 from 2008 -- Answer Key
• 24 Chapter 5: Functional Groups and Nomenclature
  • Suggested Problems: 24, 25, 29, 30, 31
  • Nomenclature Handout
• 25 Chapter 6: Stereochemistry I: Cis-Trans Isomers and Conformations



• 28 Suggested Problems: 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29
• 29

October

•  1 Chapter 7: Stereochemistry II: Chiral Molecules
  • Quiz/HW#4 -- Answer Key
•  2 Suggested Problems: 16-18, 20-24, 28, 30



•  5 Stereochemistry Worksheet (PDF) -- Answer Key
•  6 Chapter 8: Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
•  8 Suggested Problems: 22-25, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 35, 40, 43, 45, 51, 55
  • Quiz/HW #5 -- Answer Key
•  9 Old Hanson's Guide to Practical Nucleophilic Substitution (PDF)



• 12 Practice Quiz -- Answer Key
• 13
• 15
• 16 Exam 2 (Chapters 5-8) -- Answer Key
  • Exam 2 from 2008 -- Answer Key



• 19 Fall Break, No Classes
• 20 Fall Break, No Classes
• 22 Chapter 9: Elimination Reactions
• 23 Suggested Problems: 17, 18, 20, 22, 24-28



• 26
• 27
• 29 Chapter 10: Synthetic Uses of Substitution and Elimination Reactions
  • Quiz/HW #6 -- Answer Key
• 30 Suggested Problems: 33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 43, 48, 49

•  2
•  3
•  5 Homework #7 -- Answer Key
•  6 Chapter 11-11.7: Additions to Carbon-Carbon Double and Triple Bonds



•  9 Suggested Problems: 32a,c,d,e,f,g,i,k,l,n; 33b,c,d,e,f,g,i,l,n,o; 36a-d; 37a,b,d,e,f; 38a,d,g,h; 39, 40, 41, 48, 51
  • Homework #8 -- Answer Key
• 10
• 12
• 13 Exam 3 (Chapters 9-11.7) -- Answer Key
  • Exam 3 from 2008 -- Answer Key



• 16 Chapter 11.8-11.13
  • Suggested Problems: 32, 33, 36-41, 48, 51
• 17 Chapter 13: Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Practice IR Problems -- PDF format
  • Introduction to Interpretation of IR Spectra
  • Table of Characteristic IR Absorption Frequencies of Organic Functional Groups
  • Organic Chemistry Online IR Page
  • Suggested Problems: 13-22
• 19 Infrared Spectroscopy (Con't)
• 20 Chapter 14: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
  • Overview of Chemical Shifts in H-NMR
  • Introduction to Spin-Spin Coupling in H-NMR
  • Organic Chemistry Online NMR Page
  • Suggested Problems: 15, 16, 18, 20-27, 31



• 23 Chapter 12.3: Nomenclature of Aldehydes and Ketones
  • Quiz 9 -- Answer Key
• 24 Nomenclature of Aldehydes and Ketones Handout (PDF)
  • Homework # 10 Due Tuesday, Dec. 1
• 27 Thanksgiving Break, No Classes
• 28 Thanksgiving Break, No Classes



• 30 Chapter 18: Additions to the Carbonyl Group
  • Suggested Problems: 27, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 54, 57

December

•  1 Homework #10 -- Answer Key
•  3
•  4

•  7 Review
•  8 Exam 4 -- Answer Key (Chapters 12.3, 12.7, 11.8-11.13, 13, 14, & 18)
  • Exam 4 from 2008 -- Answer Key

Final Examination: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 8 - 11am

• Final Exam from 2008 -- Answer Key