Study guide for the first exam

The first exam will be on Thursday, April 25 during lecture hour.  The

test will cover Chapter 12, Chapter 13, and the first two sections of

Chapter 14.

The sections dealing with chemical reactions of alkanes (12.8), alkenes

and alkynes (13.6), and aromatics (13.11) can be given less attention,

and the sections dealing with the reaction categories (13.5) and

mechanisms (13.7) can be skipped.

You are permitted to bring a sheet of paper (8.5" x 11") with notes of

your choosing written on one side.  (No xeroxing, please!)

If you are prepared for the test, then you should be able to do the

following:

·       Interpret organic formulas or structures of several kinds (including line drawings)

·       Recognize when a formula or structure is incorrect

·       Given any organic structure, identify to which of these functional group families it belongs: alkane, alkene, alkyne, aromatic, alkyl halide, alcohol, ether, amine, aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid

·       Be familiar with the elementary physical properties of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes

·       Derive the balanced equation for the complete combustion of any hydrocarbon

·       Know the names of straight-chain alkanes through decane, and of alkyl groups through propyl and isopropyl

·       Know the common names usually used for some of the most familiar organic compounds (like ethylene and acetylene)

·       Match an alkene monomer  with the structure of its polymer (in either direction)

·       Provide standard (IUPAC) names for simple alkanes, alkenes, alkynes (including those with branches, cycles, and halogen substituents)

·       Name simple aromatics (benzene substituted with alkyl groups, halogen atoms, and/or nitro groups)

·       Know prefixes used to specify isomers in alkenes (cis and trans) and in disubstituted benzenes (ortho, meta, and para)

·       Given the name of a compound, draw its chemical structure

·       Identify isomers corresponding to any given molecular formula

·       Recognize when a name corresponds to more than one compound (due to isomerism)

·       Understand the basic concepts and procedures of the vitamin C laboratory

·       Perform calculations similar to those of the vitamin C laboratory