Dear CHM2123 students,

Here is some useful information to help you study for your final exam. Specific questions should be asked during the scheduled office hours (see the schedule!) or addressed to your TA.

Review Sessions: Four review sessions focused on how to answer more complex questions (mechanisms, calculations, tables, flow charts & more) will be given. These review sessions will be identical. Please note that the session on Tuesday December 6, 2010 at 17h30 in MRN auditorium will be bilingual: Marion Auditorium was only available at that time!

Time Monday, Dec 5th Tuesday, Dec 6th8am-9:30am Exp 4 for Monday

students, MRN3018:30am -10am

Session de révisionCHM2523 MRN 301

9:30am-11am Exam Review Session open to all, MRN301

10am-11:30amExam review sessionCHM2123 MRN 301

5:30pm-7pm Exam Review Session open to all, MRN AUD*bilingual session*

6:30pm-8pm Exp 4 for Monday students, MRN301

8pm-9:30pm Exam Review Session open to all, MRN301

Office hours:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday FridayKatherine McGilvray

9h00-10h30MRN 201

9h00-10h30MRN 201

13h00-15h00MRN201

*Scribblar*Alex Bush

(As of Dec.1st )10h00-11h30

MRN 31210h00-11h30

MRN 312

Hours for the Organic Help Center, Dec 12-16th

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday10am - 1pm session session session1pm - 4pm session session session session

Exam Format. The exam will be similar in format and style to the 2004 exam included at the end of your lab manual. The exam will have approximately 10 questions, 10 pages, 100 marks. These

questions will cover all experiments. One of them will be a ca. 20-mark potpourri of 1 or 2 mark questions spanning all the labs.

Mechanism and Theory. You should know the mechanism for all the experiments you carried out, except for the reduction of a nitro group with tin (Experiment 3, Part A). We highly recommend you make study notes on the theory described in the manual at beginning of each experiment. A lot of the exam comes directly from this section.

Procedures. You do not need to memorize entire procedures, including solvents, as in the 2004 exam Q4b. However, you should be able to describe the important steps in an experiment and know their purpose. If a procedure is given to you, you should be able to make a table of reagents and know which phase should be on the bottom in an extraction, the purpose of every reagent or solution (both during the reaction and during the workup), etc. We recommend reviewing annexes I-IV at the end of your manual for a review of melting point, recrystallization, extraction, and chromatography (TLC). You must understand the principles behind all these methods.

Structures. You must know the structures and names of all compounds you used in the lab that are in the lab manual. You also need to know the structure of any compound the lab manual says you must know, even if it was not used in the lab (experiment 4 is a good example of this). However: You do not need to memorize the smells or structures of the various esters mentioned in Experiment 9 that you did not perform.

Difficult post-lab/quiz questions. Some questions you have encountered this semester just could not be asked on a final exam: either they required the internet / textbooks, were there for pedagogical reasons for example to put the material in a broader context (especially relative to the course). To dissipate any ambiguity, a list of questions “not to worry about for the final” will be posted shortly.

NMR and IR. There are no questions related to NMR or IR.

Have a good final exam and happy holidays!

Sincerely yours,

Katherine McGilvray