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Fall Semester, 2003
Instructor: Prof. Herman Ammon

Handouts and Various Topics

  1. pKa values 
  2. Atom valence, numbers of bonds, formal charge 
  3. Drawing e-dot structures 
  4. Hybridization, bond lengths and energies 
  5. Hybridization 
  6. Questions on e-dot structures, atom hybridizations,
    shapes of molecules
  7. Nomenclature 
  8. Stereochemistry Definitions 
  9. SODAR = Sum of rings and  -bonds
  10. Aromatic Nomenclature 
  11. Spectroscopy
  12. Dipole Moments
  13. Substitution and Elimination Characteristics
  14. Alkyl halide reactivity patterns in substitution and
    elimination reactions
  15. Substitution Mini-Quiz
  16. Substitution and Elimination Examples and Problems
  17. A Keq Calculation Problem
  18. Resolution of a Racemic Mixture
  19. Molecular Orbitals & Energies
  20. 4n+2 and Frost Diagrams
  21. Formation of Electrophiles
  22. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution and Substituent Effects
  23. Petroleum and Gasoline
  24. C radicals

Reaction Mechanisms

  1. Free Radical Halogenation 
  2. Alcohols to alkyl halides with HX 
  3. Alcohols to alkyl chlorides with SOCl2 
  4. 2-Butanol-SOCl2intermediate 
  5. Alcohols to alkyl bromides with phosphorus tribomide 
  6. Dehydration of alcohols with strong acid 
  7. Dehydration of primary alcohols with strong acid 
  8. Carbocation rearrangement via 1,2-hydride shifts 
  9. Dehydrohalogenation of Alkyl Halides/E2 Mechanism 
  10. Menthyl and neomenthyl E2 reactions 
  11. Catalytic hydrogenation 
  12. Reactions of alkenes with HX 
  13. Reactions of alkeneswith H2O 
  14. Reactions of alkenes with X2and X2 + H2O 
  15. Hydroboration-oxidation;anti-Markovnikov hydration 
  16. Reactions of alkenes with peroxyacidsto epoxides 
  17. Alkenes + KMnO4to cis-diols 
  18. Reactions of alkenes with ozone
  19. Alkenes + N-bromosuccinimide(NBS)
  20. Alkene oxidation summary
  21. Carbenes and cyclopropanes
  22. Alkyne hydration reactions


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