CHM 1321/1721
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Midterm 1 and 2
Problem Solving
Tutoring Session Details
- The following review session will be exclusive to helping students tackle problems from past exams, midterms, quizzes and problem sets. Your tutor will provide questions and solve from the following organic chemistry topics:
- Fundamental theories including resonance, hybridization, acid-base chemistry, stereochemistry, chairs and Newman projections.
- Alkene and Alkyne Reactions including carbocation stability, 1,2-rearrangements, Markovnikov and Anti-Markovnikov product, Borohydration, halogenation, stereo- and regis-selectivity.
- Carbonyl Reactions including assessing electrophilicity, Grignard reagents, NaBH4/LiAlH4, cyanohydrides, hemi-acetals/acetals, imines, cyanohydrides and protecting groups.

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Date | April 9, 2022 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM (Live Zoom), Buy Review Session Recording |
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Electrophilic Aromatic
Substitution Reactions
Review Session Details
- Identifying aromaticity of compound (i.e., aromatic, anti-aromatic and non-aromatic), huckles rules, ion stability
- General mechanism for electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reactions including sigma-complex resonance
- Making super electrophiles: nitration, sulfonation, Friedel-Craft alkylation/acylation, halogenation
- Directing groups: electron withdrawing and donating groups (EDGs or EWGs)
- Activating groups: speed of reaction and reactivity of aromatic as nucleophiles
- Retroynthesis of EAS reactions,breaking down product to obtain starting material
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm and Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms and some finals!

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Resonance,
Lone Pair Strength and
Acid-Base Chemistry
Review Session Details
- Learn to draw resonance forms (and be able to identify major and minor structures)
- Learn to assess/draw electron pushing arrows for acid/base reactions
- Assessing a lone pair's strength
- Understand how lone pairs are affected by resonance, electronegativity, atom size, inductive effect and s-character
- Assessing acidity of various hydrogen atoms
- Understand how to use pKa to assess acidity
- Determine the favoured equilibrium direction for acid/base reactions
- Drawing mechanism arrows for acid/base reactions
- Draw most dominant charge using pKa and pH
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

CHM1321/1721: Resonance, Lone Pair Strength and Acid-Base Chemistry
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π-bonds
Nucleophiles and
Electrophiles
Review Session Details
- Assessment of carbocation stability
- Learning when/how to conduct 1,2 rearrangement reaction with carbocations
- Alkene/alkyne addition reactions in the presence of strong acid (i.e. ALL Markovnikov reactions)
- Hydroboration reaction (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Formation of epoxides using alkene (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Halogenation reaction using alkene/alkynes (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Understanding how to use Grignard reagents as nucleophiles
- Understanding how to use Boron/Aluminum hydrate reagents as nucleophiles
- Reduction of carbonyls using Boron/Aluminum hydrate reagents
- Alkylation of carbonyls using Grignard reagents
- ALL complex mechanism will be simplified into groups and necessary theory will be discussed.
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

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Hybridization,
LCAO and
Molecular Orbitals
Review Session Details
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!
- Understand formal charges, periodic table trends, dipoles and molecular bonds (sigma and pi bonds)
- Molecular interaction (i.e. hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals forces) to determine boiling and melting points
- Get a better understanding of atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
- Understand how to identify atom's hybridizations (sp, sp2, sp3 and s)
- Learn to draw resonance forms in steps
- Learn to draw chemical formulas using atomic orbitals (i.e. LCAO)

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Newman Projections,
Chairs and
Stereochemistry
Review Session Details
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!
- Convert condensed chemical formulas into line structure
- Learn how to Newman Projections in steps
- Learn to draw and convert between chair conformations in steps
- Understand more favourable chair conformations via ring strain
- Learn to switch between line structure and Newman projections
- Apply Newman projection structure to energy diagrams
- Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
- Distinguish between enantiomers, diastereomers and meso compounds
- Learn how to calculate optical activity and enantiomeric excess

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