CHM 1321/1721
Midterm & Final Exam Review Sessions
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Cumulative Exam
Problem Solving
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
- Gringard reactions, NaBH4/LiAlH4 reductions, cyanohydride, imine formation, hemi-acetal/hemi-ketal and acetal/ketal formations.
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm and Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms and some finals!

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Date | April 08, 2023 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM (All Profs), Buy Recording of Session |
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π-Bond
Electrophiles Reactions
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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π-Bond
Nucleophile Reactions
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)
- ALL complex mechanism will be simplified into groups and necessary theory will be discussed.
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm and Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms and some finals!

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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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Hybridization,
Resonance and
Molecular Orbitals (LCAO)
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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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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