Chemistry 231

1. Chemistry 231 • Martin Larter • Office 30-220 • Phone 644-7346 • martin.larter@gcccd.edu • www.grossmont.edu/martinlarter/

2. Class Schedule • Lecture • Monday and Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM • Room 30-242 • Lab • Tuesday 11:30 AM – 1:25 PM • Friday 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM • Room 30-222

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4. This course is the first of a two-course sequence designed to introduce students to the theoretical underpinnings of organic chemistry. This course is intended for biology, chemistry and premedical majors • Discuss the physical properties and chemical transformations of organic compounds • Development of a systematic rationale for these properties and transformations. • Understanding stereochemical conformational, geometrical, and optical isomers. • Learning the chemistry of the Alkane, Alkene, Alkyne and alcohol families

5. Lab Organic Chemistry requires learning many new laboratory techniques different from general chemistry • Melting point • Extraction • TLC / Column Chromatography • Distillation • Recrystalization • Synthesis and Spectra

6. Prerequisites • "C" grade or higher or "CR" in CHEM 142 or equivalent • OrganicChemistry 7th edition; L.G. Wade Jr. • Multiscale Operational Organic Chemistry 2nd edition ; John W. Lehman • Lab Notebook • Must have pre-numbered, duplicate pages Text

7. Additional Requirements • Safety Glasses • Covered Shoes • Non-erasable Ink Pen • Scientific Calculator with Logs and Exponents • Fine Tip Black Sharpie pen or wax pencil or labeling tape • Gloves (non-latex)

8. Student Learning Outcomes: • This course is both a lecture and a lab course. Our major goals for the semester are to become fluent in the language of organic chemistry and to utilize the tools of chemistry to analyze a variety of chemical properties and transformations. We will also learn many techniques in the lab to transform, isolate and purify organic material In particular, each student will be able to do the following upon completion of this course: • Demonstrate a working knowledge of the language of organic chemistry. • Recognize the major functional groups of organic compounds. • Predict the major products of chemical reactions of representative organic functional groups. • Apply a theoretical approach to explain the chemical and physical behavior of organic compounds. • Employ laboratory equipment and techniques to collect, analyze and evaluate experimental data.

9. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course the student should be able to: • Solve problems relating to the fundamental laws and principles of organic chemistry. • Accurately name and draw representative molecules of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, and alkyl halides. • Analyze, describe and predict the basic reactions and reaction mechanisms of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols, and alkyl halides. • Name, analyze and differentiate between isomers of organic molecules. • Accurately follow written procedures and complete basic organic separations and analyses. • Utilize and explain the principles and theory underlying basic organic instrumentation. • Read and understand IR and NMR spectra.

10. Grading • Quizzes/Problem sets 10%/10% • Exams 39% • Lab 25% • Final Exam 16%

11. Grading Scale • Must pass both lab and lecture to pass course! • Course grade will be no more than 1 letter grade higher than Exam and Quiz average.

12. Make-up Policy • Quizzes/Problem Set - No make up allowed. • Exams - Must be make up within 1 week of original test date. (With a reasonable, verifiable excuse). • Labs - lose 10% per week late. No labs accepted more than 2 weeks late. Due dates on schedule Late Work

13. Additional Information: • The maximum number of times a student may enroll in the same credit course is three times. • A student, through a combination of substandard grades (D or F) and withdrawals on their student record, may only take a class three times. • If a student, through a combination of substandard grades (D or F) and withdrawals, wishes to take a class for the fourth time, they must submit a petition to the Admissions and Records Office. Petitions will only be approved based on extenuating circumstances. • Military Withdrawals do not count in terms of repetition restrictions, nor do withdrawals that occur due to fire or flood

14. Attendance • Regular attendance is mandatory - you may be dropped if you miss more than 9 hours of class (1 week). • You will not be dropped if you have not checked out of the laboratory! This means you will receive an F!!!!

15. Academic Integrity Policy • All work must be your own! • Calculators will not contain cheat sheets! • Grossmont College Academic Integrity Policy • Cheating and plagiarism (using as one’s own ideas, writings or materials of someone else without acknowledgement or permission) can result in any one of a variety of sanctions. Such penalties may range from an adjusted grade on the particular exam, paper, project, or assignment to a failing grade in the course. The instructor may also summarily suspend the student for the class meeting when the infraction occurs, as well as the following class meeting. For further clarification and information on these issues, please consult with your instructor or contact the office of the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs.

16. Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: • Students with disabilities who may need accommodations in this class are encouraged to notify the instructor and contact Disabled Student Services & Programs (DSP&S) early in the semester so that reasonable accommodations may be implemented as soon as possible. Students may contact DSP&S in person in room 110 or by phone at (619) 644-7112 (voice) or (619) 644-7119 (TTY for deaf).

17. Supervised Tutoring Referral • Students are referred to enroll in the following supervised tutoring courses if the service indicated will assist them in achieving or reinforcing the learning objectives of this course: • IDS 198, Supervised Tutoring to receive tutoring in general computer applications in the Tech Mall; • English 198W, Supervised Tutoring for assistance in the English Writing Center (Room 70-119); and/or • IDS 198T, Supervised Tutoring to receive one-on-one tutoring in academic subjects in the Tutoring Center (Room 70-229, 644-7387). • To add any of these courses, students may obtain Add Codes at the Information/Registration Desk in the Tech Mall. • All Supervised Tutoring courses are non-credit/non-fee. However, when a student registers for a supervised tutoring course, and has no other classes, the student will be charged the usual health fee.

18. Classroom policy • Please turn off cell phones during class and if you know you will be receiving calls during lecture let me know in advance, set phone to vibrate, and sit near the door.

19. Organic Chemistry: What is it? • 1780: Organic compounds very complex and only obtained from living sources (vitalism) • Vitalism: Belief that a "magic" vital force, present in plants and animals, is necessary for the synthesis of organic compounds • 1789: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier observed that organic compounds are composed primarily of carbon and hydrogen • 1828: Friedrich Wohler synthesized an organic compound (urea) from inorganic compounds (lead cyanate and ammonium hydroxide) Modern organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.

20. "The Age of Organic Chemistry" • > 95% of All Known Compounds Composed of Carbon • Organic Chemistry Crucial to Our Way of Life: Clothing, Materials (Polymers), Petroleum, Medicine, OUR BODIES • > 50% of Chemists Are Organic

21. Why Carbon? • Carbon forms a variety of strong covalent bonds to itself and other atoms. • This allows organic compounds to be structurally diverse.

22. Introduction: Structure and Bonding Atomic structure Lewis Structures Resonance Structural Formulas Acids and Bases

23. Nucleus is a Tiny Fraction of the Volume of an Atom