CHM 1321/1721

CHM 1321/1721
Final Exam Review Sessions
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Cumulative Exam
Problem Solving
(Intermediate/Hard level)

Review Session Details
  • Tutor will mainly focus on solving problems from problem sets, midterms and final exams.
  • Tips and tricks will be shown to get to the major products with and without a mechanism.
  • Acid-Base, pKa, equilibrium and resonance problems
  • π-bond electrophiles problems
  • π-bond nucleophile problems
  • EAS reaction problems
  • Gringard reactions, NaBH4/LiAlH4 reductions, cyanohydride, imine formation, hemi-acetal/hemi-ketal and acetal/ketal formations.
  • Synthesis and retrosynthesis

 

  • 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: Cumulative Exam Problem Solving

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Live Zoom Session: April 08, 2024 5:30PM – 9:00PM, Buy Recording of Session

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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
    • Nitration
    • Sulfonation
    • Friedel-Craft alkylation
    • Friedel-Craft acylation
    • Halogenation
  • Sigma-complex resonance
  • Directing groups: electron withdrawing and donating groups (EDGs or EWGs)
  • Activating groups: speed of reaction and reactivity of aromatic as nucleophiles
  • Retrosynthesis of EAS reactions

 

  • Review Session will include problem solving from past Midterm questions.
  • All registered students will receive "Midterm/Final Exam Package" that includes multiple Midterms related to the above topics from previous years given by uOttawa Professors! 

CHM1321/1721: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

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Live Zoom Session: April 07, 2024 9:30AM – 1:00PM, Buy Recording of Session

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π-Bond
Nucleophile
Reactions

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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Live Zoom Session: April 06, 2024 9:30AM – 1:00PM, Buy Recording of Session

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π-Bond
Electrophiles
Reactions

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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Resonance,
Arrow Pushing and
Acid-Base Chemistry

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: Resonance, Lone Pair Strength and Acid-Base Chemistry 

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Newman Projections,
Chairs and
Stereochemistry

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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Hybridization,
Molecular Orbitals
and drawing LCAOs

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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