Instructor: Yevgeniy Podolyan

E-mail: podolyan@ccmsi.us

Office: JPSB 501

Phone: 979-4114

Conference hours: MWF 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Important Dates
        Friday, January 20 - Last Day a Class May be Dropped with No Grade
        Monday, March 20 - Last Day a Class May be Dropped with "W" Grade
        Tuesday, May 9 - Final Examination (8:30 a.m.)
 

Class Information

Required textbook (click on the title to check prices on the internet):

        Operational Organic Chemistry, 3rd edition, by John W. Lehman, Prentice Hall, 2002.
 

Lab Schedule

Syllabus: PDF format (18 K)

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Handouts / Misc (PDF format)

Graph paper (20 Kb)

Handout for Labs 1-3 (12 Kb)

Lab 6: Extraction - No handout required. Perform according to the lab book.

Lab 4 - Modeling II - correct answers (204 Kb)

Info on Midterm exam - click here!!!

Lab 8: Recrystallization - No handout required. Perform according to the lab book.

Lab 9: S_N2 reactions - No handout required. Perform according to the lab book (Experiment 20, p. 150).

Lab 10: Thin Layer Chromatography - Perform as in the book (Experiment 15 (p. 117), Operation 17 (p. 625)).

Final exam: May 2, 10:00 a.m.

Covers these 5 labs:

1. Molecular Modeling III

2. Recrystallization and Melting Point

3. S_N2

4. TLC

5. Elimination

Online Learning Resources

Companion Web site for the Organic Chemistry by L.G. Wade, Jr. (features interactive quizzes, tests, animation gallery, student tutorials, etc.).

This web site may help you in understanding the numbers, scientific notation, compounds, bonding, etc. http://www.chemtutor.com