$40
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Acid/Base, SN/E and Alcohol Oxidation
Review Session Details
- Understand acid/base chemistry
- Differentiate between nucleophiles and bases
- Assess the strength of a negative charge (i.e. lone pairs on Nuc)
- Learn and differentiate between E2, SN2, E1 and SN1 reactions
- Affect of solvents on rates of SN an E reactions (using energy diagrams)
- Alcohol oxidations with PCC and Jones reagent
- Applying energy diagrams and transition states to questions
- Drawing molecular orbitals for reaction mechanisms
- Lots of exam-like questions from recent years to reinforce the above concepts!
CHM2120-Final Exam-Acid/Base, SN/E and Alcohol Oxidation
$40.00
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| Date | November 30, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM, December 6, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM |
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IR/1H NMR Spectroscopy and Carbonyl Chemistry (Part 1)
Tutoring Session Details
- How to read and extract information from IR spectra
- 1H NMR concepts: chemical shift, equivalence, integration and multiplicity explained with examples (this includes simple coupling-tree diagrams)
- Hydrogen and Deuterium reactions in 1H NMR
- How to distinguish molecules using 1H NMR
- Learn to draw 1H NMR spectra from a organic molecule
- Solving parts of structure with 1H NMR peak "patterns recognition"
- Learn to correctly connect 1H NMR fragments together for final compound identification
- Five 1H NMR spectra from past midterms will be disturbed and solved as a group
CHM2120-Final Exam-IR/1H NMR and CC P1
$40.00
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| Date | December 1, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM, December 7, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM |
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Carbonyl Chemistry (Part 2) and Enolate Chemistry
Review Session Details
- Learn the mechanism for ALL carbonyl reactions in acidic conditions (this includes acetals and imine formation)
- Assessing the acidity of alpha-hydrogen
- Know when you should do an enol/enolate reactions
- Understanding how to use an enolate against various electrophiles using electron pushing arrows
- Kinetic versus thermodynamic enols/enolates and when to make them
- Reacting enolates with carbonyls (ex. Aldol reactions and Claisen reactions)
- Understanding the complex carbonyl reactions: Bayer-Villiger and Wittig reactions (A simplified approach will be provided)
CHM2120-Final Exam-CC P2 and Enolates
$40.00
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| Date | December 2, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM, December 8, 2018 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM |
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Synthesis and
Retrosynthesis
Review Session Details
- Key reactions that you must know for synthesis are listed and explained (Includes Organic 1 reactions)
- Setting you up for synthesis questions using “bond scar” technique
- Learn to modify functional groups with various reagents
- Switch between ALL carbonyls during synthesis questions
- Synthesis type questions from simple to complex
- Lots of synthesis problems from past exams and seeing how a PhD graduate approaches them
CHM2120/2520: Synthesis and Retrosynthesis
$40.00
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| Date | Live Session: December 05, 2024 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM, Buy Recording of Session |
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IR and 1H NMR
Spectroscopy
Review Session Details
- This review session will cover concepts/problem solving for Lab #3 (Acetaminophen) and Lab #4 (Phenacetin).
- Tutor will also review the "Guiding Questions" posted by Dr. François Magnan for Recrystallization.
- Exam-like questions and previous exam questions will be provided and solved
CHM2120/2520: Carbonyl Chemistry (Flynn)
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Organic 1 Reactions and Synthesis
Tutoring Session Details
- Review and discuss important Organic Chemistry 1 reactions
- Learn to answer the correct stereochemistry and regiochemistry without mechanism
- Key reactions that you must know for synthesis are listed and explained
- Setting you up for retrosynthesis questions using “bond scar” technique
- Learn to modify functional groups with various reagents
- Synthesis type questions from simple to complex
- Lots of midterm/exam-like questions to reinforce the concepts for Midterm 2!
CHM2120/2520: Enolate and Enamine Chemistry
$35.00
- Review E2 mechanisms with different bases and conditions
- Review interpreting/drawing energy diagrams and transition states
- SN2 mechanism and applying the inversion rule to difficult questions
- Projecting SN2 reactions in their most stable conformation
- Differentiating between E2 vs. SN2 vs. E1 vs. SN1
- Trick questions to help you differentiate between these reactions on your midterm
- Important reactions from organic chemistry 1 needed for this course explained
- Relate bonding, non-bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals to E2/E1/SN2 and SN1
- Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
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| Date | December 12, 2020 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM |
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Carbonyl
Chemistry
Tutoring Session Details
- Learn a simplified mechanism for ALL alcohol oxidations
- Understand the different reagents used for alcohol oxidations (PCC/PDC, Jones etc.)
- Review reduction of carbonyls (with and without resonance)
- How to assess the reactivity of a carbonyl as π-bond electrophile
- Understanding anhydrides and their reactivity
- Review of general carbonyl mechanisms from Organic I
- Assessing the equilibrium stability between products and reactants for carbonyl reaction
CHM2120/2520: Enols, Enolates and Enamines
$40.00
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| Date | Live Session: December 04, 2024 4:30 PM to 8:00 PM, Buy Recording of Session |
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Fundamentals
Review Session Details
- The Review Session will mainly focus on problem solving from past midterms/assignments, the following topics will be covered:
- Atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
- Resonance (including identifying major/minor structures and resonance hybrids)
- Drawing Chairs and Newman projections
- Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
- Acid-base chemistry (pKa and assessing conjugate bases)
- Review ALL Organic I reactions
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms.
CHM2120/2520: Problem Solving: Organic I Review
$40.00
- Get a better understanding of atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
- Learn to draw resonance forms (and be able to identify major and minor structures)
- Comfortably switch between chairs, Newman projections, and line structures
- Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
- Learn to become an expert with acid-base chemistry by understanding pKa and how to assess the strength of a lone pair
- Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
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SN and E Reactions (part 1)
Review Session Details
- Step by step guide for differentiating between E1/SN1 vs. SN2
- Nucleophile strength, dead solvents and only base reagents
- Carbocation properties and stability
- 1,2-shifts and ring expansion for carbocations
- Evaluating various leaving groups (L.G.)
- Making OH groups into L.G.
- SN1 mechanism and stereochemistry
- SN2 mechanism and stereochemistry
- Review how to make and react with epoxides
- E2 mechanism and identifying major and minor products (Zaitsev vs. Hoffmann)
- Review how to make and react with epoxides
- Learn to draw transition states and energy diagrams
- All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms.
CHM2120/2520: SN and E Reactions
$40.00
- Full understanding of how to use/draw energy diagrams and transition states
- Learn to differentiate between a base and a nucleophile
- Understand carbocations and when to do a 1,2-shift
- How to tell if you have a leaving group for SN and E reactions
- SN1 and E1 mechanism specifics
- Solvents and rates for SN1 and E1
- Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
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| Date | Buy Recording of Session (Prof. El-Nachef/Moran students), Buy Recording of Session (Prof. Flynn students) |
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SN and E Reactions (part 2)
Review Session Details
- Each student will receive a Previous Midterms Package.
- SN2 mechanism and stereochemistry
- Review how to make and react with epoxides
- E2 mechanism and number of products
- Drawing and understanding molecular orbitals for SN2/E2 reactions
- Projecting SN2/E2 reactions in anti-periplanar (APP) reactive conformation
- Strong versus weak nucleophiles
- SN2/E2 and solvent effects on rate
- Differentiating between reactions: E1/SN1 vs. SN2/E2
- Questions from past midterms given by current professors
CHM2120/2520: SN and E Reactions (Flynn)
$40.00
- E2 mechanism and which beta-Hydrogen to select (Hoffman vs. Zaitsev product)
- Projecting E2 reactions in their most stable conformation
- Differentiating between reactions: E2 vs. E1/SN1
- Solvents and rates for E2
- Simplifying the mechanism for oxidation of alcohol and knowing how to use the reagents appropriately
- Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
