CHM 1321/1721

CHM 1321/1721
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Midterm 2 Video Tutorials

Arrow pushing,
Resonance and
Acid-Base Chemistry

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Electron arrow pushing 
  • Drawing curved arrows
  • Drawing resonance forms/contributors
  • Identifying major and minor resonance forms
  • Drawing resonance hybrid structure
  • Acid-Base mechanism 
  • Assessing a lone pair's strength
    • Resonance, electronegativity, atom size, inductive effect and s-character
  • Assessing acidity and basicity
  • Using pKa to assess acidity
  • Using conjugate base stability to assess acidity
  • Determining equilibrium direction for acid/base reactions
  • Drawing conjugate base and acid
  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm 2 Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors! 

CHM1321/1721: Arrow Pushing, Resonance and Acid-Base Chemistry 

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π-Bond
Electrophile
Reactions

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
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Review Session Details
  • Understanding base and nucleophiles
  • Aprotic solvents or 'Dead' solvents
  • Lonepairs that are base only (not nucleophiles)
  • Two general mechanisms for ALL π-bond electrophilic reactions:
    • Mechanism #1 (Basic conditions)
    • Mechanism #2 (Acidic conditions)
  • Grignard reagents andorganometallic reagents
  • Boron/Aluminum hydrate reagents (i.e., NaBH4 and LiAlH4)
  • Mechanism for hemi-acetals
  • Find the missing reagents
  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm 2 Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors! 

CHM1321/1721: π-bonds Electrophile Reactions

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π-Bond
Nuclephilic
Reactions

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
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Review Session Details
  • Alkene/alkyne addition reactions
    • Hydrohalogenation (HX) mechanism
    • Oxymercuration (Hg(OAc)2)mechanism
    • Hydroboration (BH3) mechanism
    • Halogenation (X2) mechanism
    • Epoxidation (RCO3H) mechanism
  • Carbocation stability (i.e., hyperconjugation and resonance)
  • 1,2 shift reaction with carbocations
  • Stereoselectivity of all the above mechanisms
  • Explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity
  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm/Exam Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors!

CHM1321/1721: π-bonds as Nucleophiles

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Midterm 1 Video Tutorials

Hybridization,
Molecular Orbitals
and drawing LCAOs

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Atomic orbitals (s, p and sp)
  • Hybridization of atomic orbitals
  • Identification of atom's hybridization
  • Formal charges and lone pairs
  • Drawing LCAO structures 
  • Key condensed formula (i.e., COOH, CHO NO2, CN etc.)
  • Molecular orbital (MO) theory 
  • Bonding and antibonding orbitals
  • Calculating Bond Order
  • Drawing MO diagrams
  • Molecular interaction (i.e. hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals forces) to determine boiling and melting points)
  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm 1 Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors! 

CHM1321/1721: Hybridization, Molecular Orbitals and drawing LCAOs

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Newman Projections,
Chairs and
Stereochemistry

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
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Review Session Details
  • Wedges and dashes on line structures 
  • Line Structure to Newman Projections (NP)
  • Drawing Staggered and eclipsed confirmations 
  • Stability of different NP conformation (i.e., gauche, total eclipsed)
  • Drawing chairs (i.e., axial and equatorial positions)
  • Determining Stability of chair confirmation
  • Drawing chairs in Newman Projections
  • Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
  • Stereochemical relationships: enantiomers, diastereomers and meso compounds
  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm 1 Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors! 

CHM1321/1721: Newman Projections, Chairs and Stereochemistry

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