NEWS 8/8/05

The final exam is on Thursday 8/11/05, at 9am-12pm. It will be cumulative covering the entire year (especially Chem 25b), but there will be more emphasis on chapters 18-20 (enolates, carboxylic acids and their derivatives). We will also cover the basics of the Claisen condensation from chapter 23.

Recommended end-of-chapter problems from Vollhardt & Schore:
Chapter 12: 28, 30-32, 35-42.
Chapter 13: 22, 27, 30, 32-34, 36-40, 42-44, 47, 49-53.
Chapter 14: 28-50, 52-55, 68-71.
Chapter 15: 32-35, 38, 42-46, 50-51, 54, 60-63.
Chapter 16: 27-39, 46-49, 51-52, 55.
Chapter 17: 24, 26-31, 33-36, 38-39, 41-43, 47-50, 54-56.
Chapter 18 (for test #2): 28-31, 33, 61.
Chapter 18 (for final): 38-52, 62-63.
Chapter 19: 21, 23, 25-40, 44-45, 48-50.
Chapter 20: 34-43 (not 36(d) or 37(b), 45-53, 55, 61-63, 71-73.
Chapter 21: 22-24, 28-32(NOT (c) or (j)), 33 (see 32), 34-37(not (c)), 46-48, 54, 56.
Chapter 22: 30-31, 33, 35, 38(a)-(d), 39-40, 42-43, 45(a), 46-48, 57, 66.
Chapter 23: 24-26, 28-30, 34, 39, 41-42, 46-47. (We may not get to all of these topics in 2005).

If you need information on any of the recent or upcoming lab experiments, go to the Chemistry 29b web site
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