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CHEM 20481 - Organic Chemistry
Fall 2008

1. Course Syllabus - Adobe Acrobat pdf format
2. Old Exams and Quizzes - (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   • Exam #1 - Fall 1999 (Key)
   • Exam #2 - Fall 1999 (Key)
   • Exam #3 - Fall 1999 (Key)
   • Exam #4 - Fall 1999 (Key)
3. General Chemistry Review Topics
   • Drawing Lewis Structures and Predicting Molecular Geometry
   • Introduction to Resonance
   • Lewis Acids and Bases
   • Combination of atomic orbitals to give Molecular Orbitals
4. Old Review Sheets
   • Alkene Synthesis
   • Alkene Reactions
   • Stereochemistry
   • Substitution
   • Alcohols
   • Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides
   • Aldehydes and Ketones
   • Enols and Enolates
   • Carboxylic Acids
   • Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
5. Curved Arrow Formalism
   The following links give information and practice on drawing and understanding reaction mechanisms using the curved arrow formalism.
   • Curved Arrow Formalism - Handout from lecture
   • UCLA site - Tutorial with practice problems
   • Sussex (U.K.) - A printable (PDF) page with practice questions and answers.
   • Towson Univ. site - Curved arrows used to show resonance
   • U.K. site - Practice at identifying whether curved arrows drawn correctly.
6. Reaction Mechanisms
   • Addition of HBr to propene
7. Reactions
   • Alkenes: Reactions
   • Alkynes: Reactions
8. Handouts, Practice, and Review Sheets
   • Molecules in four dimensions - A collections of interactive 3D models and animations of chemical reactions.
   • Organic reaction mechanisms (UK site written by Dr. Jim Clark)
   • Nucleophilic Substitution - Mechanisms and Stereochemistry, including Walden inversion. (Univ. of Aberdeen - UK)
   • Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (S_N2 and S_N1)
   • Reactivity: Substitution vs. Elimination Pathways
   • Conformation of Cyclohexane
   • Cyclohexane Ring Flip (Univ. Tulsa Web site - Animation by Dr. Jeffrey Gosper).
   • Practice with R,S Nomenclature
   • Thalidomide - An optically active drug
   • Molecular Orbitals of Benzene
   • Spectroscopy

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Kent State University Stark Campus
Department of Chemistry
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