Introduction to Organic Chemistry
CHEM 102


 Lecture Schedule
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August 24 Welcome to Organic Chemistry, Instructor, textbook, office hours, class venue etc., Course grading, Laboratory Rules, Laboratory Reports, Chime
Syllabus
August 26: Chapter 10 Organic Chemistry in  our day to day life, relative sizes, position of Carbon in the periodic table, 
bonding (covalent, ionic), polar covalent bonds, shapes and structures of organic molecules (methane, ethylene, acetylene)
August 26:
No Labs this week
August 28: shapes and structures of organic molecules (methane, ethylene, acetylene), Functional Groups,alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids. amines are derivatives of ammonia
August 31: Review:  Drawing  Lewis Structures, 
September 2: Chapter 11:  Alkanes: Shapes and structures of organic molecules, structural formula and conformations, condensed formula and bond line structures, isomers: constitutional isomers 
September 2:
Laboratory Check-in, Physical properties, laboratory safety, reports, melting point determination, etc  Please print out the  Laboratory Rules before coming to the lab
September 4:  Nomenclature of alkanes, cycloalkanes and nomencalture of cycloalkanes,cycloalkanes in nature
September 7:
No Classes: Labor Day
September 9: Quiz 1:  cycloalkanes in nature, IUPAC  general system of nomenclature, geometric isomerism (cis-trans),cis-1,2-dibrocyclobutane, trans-1,2-dibromocyclobutane,
September 9:
Experiment 1  (Molecular models) {This exercise will be done in the regular lecture hall}
September 11: Chapter 12: Unsaturated hydrocarbons, alkenes and alkynes, cis-trans isomerism, nomenclature of alkenes
September 14:  Nomenclature of alkenes, cont.,  introduction to organic reactions
September 16:
Naturally occuring alkenes, alkene reactions, oxidation reduction reactions, addition reactions, Markovnikov rule
September 16:
Experiment 2: Conversion of phthalic acid into phthalic anhydride
September 18: Polymerization of ethylene and substituted ethylenes. Addition reactions of alkenes, cont.; naturally occuring alkenes, pheromones, terpenes Examination 1 will cover upto this point.   Principles of Chromatography , thin layer chromatography,
September 21: Chapter 13 Organization of topics in Ch. 13:  Structure of benzene, nomenclature of common aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogenicity of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. 
September 23: Quiz 2:  In Class Study Session for Examination 1
September 23:
Experiment 3:Analysis of Commercially Available Painkillers using Thin Layer Chromatography
September 25:  Examination 1
September 28 Nomenclature of common aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogenicity of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. Reactions of benzene and its derivatives, Phenols, naturally occuring phenols, acidity of phenols
September 30:
  Chapter 14:  Alcohols, 10, 20, 30 alcohols,(an additional handout)
September 30
Expriment 4:Polymerization
October 2: nomenclature of alcoholsdiols, glycols, physical properties of alcohols and ethers,   Oxidation of alcohols    
October 5:  physical properties of alcohols and ethers , Dehydration of Alcohols
October 7:
Quiz 3:Buffer Lecture
October 7:  Experiment 5: Identification of Alcohols and Phenols
October 9: Chapter 15:, Isomers, stereoisomerism, chirality, enantiomers, Naming enantiomers, molecules with 2 chiral centers, diastereomers,   optical acivity, racemic mixture
October 12
 Molecules with two stereocenters, diastereomers, significance of chirality in biology,    
October 14: Chapter 17: Organization of topics in Chapter 17, carbonyl group, 3D structure of an aldehyde and a ketone, naturally occurring aldehydes and ketones, nomenclature of aldehydes and ketones,oxidation of aldehydes, reduction of aldehydes and ketones,
October 14:
Experiment 6: Mixed melting point as an identification tool
October 16: nomenclature of aldehydes and ketones,oxidation of aldehydes, reduction of aldehydes and ketones
October 19:
Quiz 4: addition reactions of aldehydes and ketones
Octobber 21: Chapter 18: Topics to be covered in Ch.18, carboxyl and acyl groups, 3D structure of benzoic acid, derivatives of carboxylic acids (esters, amides, lactones, and lactams), carboxylic anhydrides
October 21:
Experiment 7:Identification of aldehydes and ketones
October 23: (esters, amides, lactones, and lactams), carboxylic anhydrides, Theory of Recrystallizatio(calculation of % yield) 
October 26:  Physical properties, nomenclature of acids, acidity of carboxylic acids, reactions of carboxylic acids
October 28: Quiz 5:: Reactions of carboxylic acids cont,  Aspirin and Ibuprofen, Naproxen, Exam 2 will cover upto this point
October 28:
Experiment 8: Synthesis of Nylon 6, 6
October 30:
Exam 2
Novemeber 2:  Chapter 16: ,Classification of amines, amine nomenclature, heterocyclic amines, (cont.) (calculation of % yield)
November 4: DNA bases, structure of amides, hydrolysis of amides, CNS aminesBiochemistry:  Modular nature of biochemicalscarbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids  Structures of biomolecules, bioenergetics, Chapter 19: Topics to be covered in Ch.19
November 4:
Experiment 9: Synthesis of Aspirin , Theory of Recrystallization
November  6: Def. of carbohydrates, Monosaccahrides, Common names of monosaccharides,
November 9: configuration of sugars, D and L sugars,Fischer representation Names of hexoses, cyclic forms of sugars (Haworth structures), anomers, epimers
November 11: Epimers, glycoside formation, examples of di and poly saccharides (Disaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, (sucrose, amylose, cellulose etc),  blood groups) 
November 11
Experiment 10: Synthesis of Acetaminophen (calculation of % yield)
November 13: Quiz 6:Selected sections from Chapter 20: Def. of lipids, structures of triglycerides (fats), wax and cholesterolfats, oils,partial hydrogenation of oils, soaps and detergents
November 16: Complex lipids, phospholipids, phophoglycerides, lecithin, cephalin
November 18: Exam 3
November 18 Experiment 10: Synthesis of Acetaminophen (calculation of % yield)
November 20: Buffer Lecture,
Nov 23-27
Thanksgiving Holidays
November 30
Lipid bilayer, steroids, steroidal hormones, sex hormones, adrenocortical hormones, bile acid salts
December 1: Quiz7: Selected sections from Chapter 24: Nucleotides,sugar, base, phophate,  nucleic acids, primary and secondary structure of DNA.
December 1:
Make-up Lab:  Students with excued absences can make up a LAB during this session.  Only one missed lab can be made up
December 4: Review
December 7

December 9

December 11
Quiz 8:
December 14-17 Examination Week:  Final Examination will be a Comprehensive One

 
 
 
 

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