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Courses - Spring 2012

Chem 234, Organic Chemistry II, Spring 2012

Tuesday/Thursday @8:30 AM in 208 Clark Hall

Syllabus

Preparing for Exams

Recreating Structures from your Exams

Lectures Concerning Exam 1

Syllabus Discussion
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Study Guide and Lecture Guide for Exam 1

Lectures Concerning Exam 2

Lectures Concerning Exam 3


Lectures Concerning Exam 4

 

Chem 339, Advanced Organic Chemistry Lab, Spring 2012

Lecture @1:30 PM Thursday in 111 Clark Hall

Lab 2:30-5:30 Tuesday and Thursday in 480 CRL

Syllabus

Previous Lab Manual written by Anthony Winston

I. Introduction
II. Synthesis of Diethyl Adipate
III. Preparative Scale GLC. Separation of Carvone and Limonene
IV. Distillation using the Spinning Band Column
V. Resin Oxidation of 9-Hydroxyfluorene
VI. Wittig Reaction: Synthesis of 3-methylene-4-cholestene
VII. Emulsion Polymerization
VIII. Preparation of Cyclopentadiene
IX. Diels-Alder Rxn: Cyclopentadiene and Maleic Anhydride
X. Ferrocene
XI. Friedel-Crafts Rxn: Mono- and Diacetylferrocene
XII. The Stereochemistry of an Oxime
XIII. Preparation of an Enol Acetate
XIV. Acylation Through an Enamine Intermediate
XV. Catalytic Hydrogenation of the Diels-Alder Adduct
XVI. Ziegler Polymerization of Ethylene

Schedule of Experiments