Syllabus (Summer I 2009)
Attendance Policy:
Attendance to the scheduled lecture is required. Contact your instructor to find out the consequences of not attending.
Required Texts:
Solomons and Fryhle, Organic Chemistry, 9th Ed, J. Wiley & Sons.
Recommended Texts: (contact the instructor of your section for information about the importance of these materials)
Student Study Guide and Solutions Manual to Accompany Organic Chemistry, 9th Ed, J Wiley & Sons
Molecular Modeling Kit, J Wiley & Sons or any other variety
Molecular Modeling Handbook James W. Zubrick, Hudson Valley Community College,
J Wiley & Sons
Organic Chemistry I as a Second Language, 2nd Edition, David Klein, J Wiley & Sons
Safety and Scientific Integrity Policies:
The departmental policy on scientific integrity, which each student will be required to sign at the first laboratory period, also applies to this course.
Grade Policy:
There will be four tests and a final examination. Contact your instructor for section specific information (room location, start time). All sections will take a common final examination prepared by the American Chemical Society Examination Institute. A study guide for the exam can be purchased directly from the Exam Institute website. The ACS final exam has 70 multiple choice questions with a 110 minute time limit. Your final exam grade is based on the total number of correct answers. There is no penalty for guessing. The grade will be scaled as it is a standardized test. Thus, you do not need to get all questions correct in order to make a 100. The Chem 231 examination covers the first semester introductory organic course from lecture and laboratory, including spectroscopy. Simply passing or doing well on the final examination is not sufficient to earn a passing grade in the course. Consult your individual instructor for details on how the course grade is determined.
Grade Scale:
Contact your instructor for the specific grade scale to be used in your section. One grade scale that can be used for this course is: 100-93 (A); 92-90 (A-); 89-87 (B+); 86-83 (B); 82-80 (B-); 79-77 (C+); 76-73 (C); 72-70 (C-); 69-67 (D+); 66-63 (D); 62-60 (D-); 59-0 (F)
Scheduled Coverage:
Although the primary coverage for spectroscopy will occur in the lab, applications of spectroscopic analysis will be used during the semester, and are expected to be part of the lecture tests and the lecture final examination.
The topics of Chapter 1 - 12 in the required text are the tpoical coverage of this course.
Student Objective:
To master the material from Chapters 1-12 of the requires text and any other material presented by the instructor.
Tentaive Lecture/Test Schedule:
| 2-Jun | 3-Jun | 4-Jun | 5-Jun | |
1&2 |
1&2 |
1&2 |
3 |
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| 8-Jun | 9-Jun | 10-Jun | 11-Jun | 12-Jun |
Test I |
3 |
4 |
4&5 |
5 |
| 15-Jun | 16-Jun | 17-Jun | 18-Jun | 19-Jun |
Test II |
6 |
6&7 |
7&8 |
8 |
| 22-Jun | 23-Jun | 24-Jun | 25-Jun | 26-Jun |
Test III |
10 |
11 |
11 |
12 |
| 29-Jun | 30-Jun | 1-Jul | 2-Jul | |
12 |
Test IV |
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Lecture Exam |