Time and Place: Section 101, MWF 1-1:50 PM; Rm B150
Lecturer Information:
Prof. Gregory Dake
Office: Chemistry/Physics A341
Office hours: will set with class and by appointment
Email: I usually set up office appointments by email….send me a request for an appointment with two or three alternatives to meet (days/times)…I respond quickly (within 6 h on weekdays) to emailed requests for appointments….I respond slowly (or not at all) to rude, impolite, rambling or incomprehensible e-mail from students.
Mark Distribution:
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Midterm Examinations Final Examination |
10 55 |
Conflicts? An alternative writing time may be made available for those students who have a legitimate time conflict (UBC class, another exam etc.) with the scheduled midterms. As the exam time approaches, you can contact me if there is a conflict with your schedule.
Missed exams? Students who miss the scheduled examinations for legitimate reasons (illness, family crisis etc.) will not have a make-up examination. Rather, the weighting of the final examination in the final grade will increase. Failure to provide an acceptable reason for missing a scheduled examination will result in a grade of zero.
The final examination counts for 55% of your final grade in the course. If you miss the final examination for reasons such as illness or family crisis, you must inform the staff of your Dean's office of the reason for the absence in a timely manner (within a few days of the examination). If you are ill for an examination and choose to write the examination, then the grade obtained on the examination will stand. There are no rewrites of examinations in such cases.
Regrade Policy. Requests for exam regrades can be made within one week after they have been returned to students. Generally, there are two types of regrade requests.
a) Calculation Error: In the case of a calculation or addition error on your midterm examination, bring the mistake to my attention, and once confirmed, I will modify the grade accordingly.
b) Interpretation of Course Material: Exams written in pencil or erasable ink will not be regraded for interpretation. Answers that have been marked with Liquid Paper (or similar materials) will not be regraded. Examinations with regrade requests should be submitted to me with a cover page on which the student should provide a written rationale for a regrade.
No special treatment. I have been asked by some individual students each year to weight their particular final exams higher relative to their peers to offset their midterm scores. I believe this request is unfair to the group as a whole, and so I have never agreed to these requests. Please don’t ask.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION TAKEN FROM THE UBC CALENDAR:
“Furthermore, in any Science course which has both laboratory work and written examinations, students must complete and pass both parts of the course.”
Failure to meet the above requirement will result in the student’s grade being lowered to that of a failing grade (45%) even if the actual numerical sum of the laboratory and lecture grade components is greater than 50%.
The course content is defined by the lecture notes. I will not assign textbook material that I do not discuss in class. There is some course content not covered by the textbook, and this will be clearly identified. The text is a good source of information to support the lecture notes and also contains many useful end of chapter problems for independent study. Other textbooks could also be used.
Textbook: Organic Chemistry, Fifth Edition, by Brown, Foote, Iverson and Anslyn
Other Materials:
Study Guide and Solutions Manual for Brown, Foote, Iverson and Anslyn’s Organic Chemistry, Sixth Edition, by Iverson and Iverson
Chemistry Model Sets
Web: I have set up lecture outlines, problem sets and answer keys for the course. These are posted on Vista (www.elearning.ubc.ca). Let me know if there are problems accessing that material.
In order to supplement their classroom notes and to access additional problems related to the C203 curriculum, students are encouraged to consult other introductory organic chemistry textbooks. These can be found in the Barber Learning Center (QD 251.2). Good books are those written by: Streitweiser and Heathcock, Bruice, Hornback, Solomons, Vollhardt, Wade.
Prerequisites: Chemistry 123 (especially the organic section) is prerequisite to this course. This course builds on and operates on the expectation that students are familiar with and can recall the material presented in this course (Chapters 1-3 in the textbook). The first four lectures of C203 will provide some level of review, but it is the student’s responsibility to ensure a thorough review is performed.
Chapter 1: electronic structure, Lewis structures, octet rule, electronegativity, covalent bonding, ionic bonding, lone pairs, formal charge, VSEPR theory, functional groups, bond angles and molecular shape, hybridization, hybrid orbitals (sp, sp2 and sp3), polar and non-polar molecules, molecular orbital theory, resonance theory, arrow representation of electron movement, bond lengths, bond strengths
Chapter 2: constitutional isomerism, nomenclature, alkane conformation, Newman projections, sawhorse projection, staggered conformation, eclipsed conformation, anti,gauche, torsional strain, steric strain, angle strain, cycloalkane conformation,chair, boat, twist-boat, equatorial bonds, axial bonds, cis/trans isomerism, physical properties of alkanes
Chapter 3: stereoisomerism, chirality, stereogenic centers, meso compounds, Fischer projections, R, S-designations, stereoisomer properties, optical activity, diastereomerism, enantiomerism, resolution
Brief Course Outline
1. Fundamentals—Ch. 1, 21, 2, 3, 4— 8 lectures
2. Compounds with C=C p Bonds (non-aromatic)—Ch. 5, 6, 7— 7 lectures
3. Spectroscopy—Ch. 12, 13— 3.5 lectures
4. Compounds Containing Halogen Atoms—Ch. 8, 9— 7 lectures
5. Compounds Containing C-O s and p Bonds—Ch. 10, 11, 15, 16— 8 lectures
6. Review — 2 lectures