Policies:
  1. Quizzes will be administered through Canvas.
  2. Quizzes will be available during a 24-hour period, beginning 10 a.m. on the Monday of the quiz, or TBA for the fifth quiz. I will be available on Zoom for the normal 10-10:45 a.m. class slot to answer questions. Each quiz will have a 45-minute window from the time you open it. If you start after the normal class period, questions will have to be managed via email and may not receive a timely response.
  3. Questions will be assigned from question pools such that each student will have a unique set of questions. Each quiz will consist of 15 questions.
  4. You will be required to answer each question in order; you will not be able to return to a prior question and change your answer.
  5. You are encouraged to use molecular model kits. Quizzes will be open book/open note.
  6. Use of "tutoring" sites or any other collaboration with human help is a violation of academic honesty. You will be asked to acknowledge this on each quiz.

    7. Quiz 1

    Coverage: Chapters 1, 2 (Structure, bonding, nomenclature, functional groups)

    Quiz 2

    Coverage: Chapters 3, 4 (Alkanes and cycloalkanes; free radical halogenation)

    Quiz 3

    Coverage: Chapter 5 (Stereochemistry)

    Quiz 4

    Coverage: Chapter 6 (SN2 and SN1 substitutions)

    Quiz 5

    Coverage: Chapter 7 (E2 and E1 eliminations)


    Examples of traditional exams from a prior year are provided for your benefit; note that the prior format (2 midterms + comprehensive final exam) does not align with out format this year.
    Exam 1.
    Coverage:  Chapters 1, 2, 3
    Bonding, electronic structure, resonance and MO theory, acid/base chemistry, thermodynamics/kinetics, alkane nomenclature, alkane isomerism, alkane conformational analysis, free radical halogenation.
    Link to a copy of a prior exam
    Link to a copy of the prior exam key (Form A)

    Exam 2.
    Coverage:  Chapters 4, 5
    Cycloalkanes, cyclohexane conformational analysis, stereochemistry.
    Link to a copy of a prior exam (Form A)
    Link to a copy of the prior exam key (Form A)

    Final exam.
    Comprehensive; special emphasis on Chapters 6 and 7.
    SN2 reactivity, SN1 reactivity and carbocation stability, E1 and E2 eliminations, alcohol dehydration.
    Link to a copy of the prior year's final exam
    Link to a copy of the exam key