Course Schedule

Week #1                             CH 1: Structure and Bonding and CH 2: Polar Covalent bonds; Acids and Bases

Week #2                             CH 3: Organic Compounds: Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry

Week #3                             CH 4: Organic Compounds: Cycloalkanes and Their Stereochemistry

                                             Exam 1

Week #4                             CH 5: Stereochemistry at Tetrahedral Centers

Week #5                             CH 6: An Overview of Organic Reactions

                                             Exam 2

Weeks #6                           CH 7: Alkenes: Structure and Reactivity

Week #7                             CH 8: Alkenes: Reactions and Synthesis

Week #8                             CH 9:  Alkynes: An Introduction to Organic Synthesis

                                             Exam 3                                                            

Weeks #9-11                     CH 10: Organohalides

                                          CH 11: Reactions of Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitutions and Eliminations

TBA                Exam 4