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Readings are from the required textbook:

Amazon logo McMurry, John. Organic Chemistry. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, 2004. ISBN: 9780534420055.


WEEK #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction

Review

Resonance

Acidity and Basicity
Chapters 1 and 2
2Alkanes and Cycloalkanes

Conformational Analysis of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
Chapters 3 and 4
3Stereochemistry

Overview of Chemical Reactions
Sections 9.1-9.11, 6.6, and 9.15-9.17.
4Thermodynamics

Kinetics

Reaction Coordinate Diagrams

Exam 1

Alkenes
Chapters 5 and 6
5Addition of HX to an Alkene (Regiospecificity, Carbocation Stability, Hammond Postulate, Stereochemistry)Chapters 6 and 7

Sections 9.12-9.14
6Reactions of AlkenesChapters 6 and 7

Sections 9.12-9.14
7Alkynes

Exam 2

Reactions of Alkynes
Chapter 8
8Alkyl Halides

Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Chapters 10 and 11
9Alkyl Halides: Elimination Reactions

Aromaticity
Chapters 11 and 15
10Aromaticity

Exam 3

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Chapters 15 and 16
11Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic SubstitutionChapter 16
12Alcohols and Phenols

Introduction to Carbonyls
Chapters 17 and 19
13Carbonyl Chemistry

Exam 4
Chapter 19
14Multistep SynthesisAll

 








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