Week
 Topics
 Assigned Reading and Exams
 Web Site Links
1
 Alkenes; elimination, hydrogenation, stability.
 Chapter 11 (except Sections 11-4, 11-8, 11-9, 11-10)
 Chapter 11 Learning Goals
2
 Alkenes: Electrophilic Addition reactions, oxidations, radical additions
Chapter 12
 Chapter 12 Learning Goals
3
 Alkene reactions (continued); Alkynes
Chapter 13 (except Section 13-3)
 Chapter 13 Learning Goals
4
 Polyenes and Pi Delocalization
Exam 1: Monday, January 24.
Begin Chapter 14(Except Section 14-11)
 Chapter 14 Learning Goals
5
 Polyenes (continued)
Chapter 14 (continued); begin Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Learning Goals
6
 Aromaticity (continued)
 Chapter 15 (Except Sections 15-4)
7
 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
 Chapter 16
 Chapter 16 Learning Goals
8
 Spectroscopy (IR)
Exam 2: Monday, February 21.
Chapter 10; Section 11-8
Spectroscopy Learning Goals
9
 Spectroscopy (continued): 1H and 13C NMR
Chapter 10; Sections 11-4, 13-3, 15-4
Spectroscopy Learning Goals
10 (Dead Week)
 Spectroscopy (continued): Mass Spectrometry and UV
 Sections 11-9, 11-10, 14-11
Final Exam: TBA
Assessed student learning outcomes:
  1. The student will be able to recognize and name organic molecules containing C-C pi bonds and correctly describe how the bonding in these molecules imparts reactivity.
  2. The student will be able to recognize, and predict the reaction outcome for, common transformations of alkenes, alkynes and aromatic compounds with electrophilic reagents.
  3. The student will be able to describe reaction mechanisms for electrophilic addition to C-C pi bonds and electrophilic aromatic substitution in aromatic systems.
  4. The student will be able to assign the structure of an organic molecule based on its mass spectrum, infrared spectrum, 1H and 13C NMR spectra, and UV spectrum.