ST.

JOHNS UNIVERSITY
CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT
COURSE: CHEMISTRY 2230, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
INSTRUCTOR: Victor Cesare, Ph.D.
OFFICE: St. Albert Hall, Room 326, Phone: 718-990-5692
email: cesarev@stjohns.edu
OFFICE HOURS: M, R (12:15-1:15PM), T (11:00-12:00 noon)
COURSE GRADING:
Your final grade will be determined by the average of two noncumulative examinations worth 40%, a cumulative final examination worth
30%, your laboratory grade worth 25%, and the assigned Mastering
Chemistry homework worth 5%. Normally, no make-up will be given for
the first two examinations. In class quizzes could also be given and will
count in determining your final grade. Laboratory grades can not be
changed after the final examination. Numerical final averages in the
following ranges will be converted to final letter grade as follows:
87-89.4 B+
77-79.4 C+
67-69.4 D+

Above 93
83-86.4
73-76.4
60-66.4

A
B
C
D

90-92.4
80-82.4
70- 72.4
Below 60

ABCF

TENTATIVE EXAMINATION DATES:

Exam I: Monday, October 5, 2015 (Chapters 1-4)
Exam II: Monday, November 9, 2015 (Chapters 5-8)
Final: (Tentative) Saturday, December 19, 2015 (cumulative: Chapters 1-11,14)

COURSE MATERIAL:
Wade, Jr., L.G., Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
2013. (Earlier editions are almost the same and can be used) (Required)
The Solutions Manual by Jan William Simek to the above textbook. (Recommended)
Organic Model Kit. (Recommended)
MasteringChemistry Access Code. (Required) (Course ID is MCCESARE13835).

Chapters to be covered:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 14

Introduction and Review

Structure and Properties of Organic Molecules
Structure and Stereochemistry of Alkanes
The Study of Chemiscal Reactions
Stereochemistry
Alkyl Halides: Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination
Structure and Synthesis of Alkenes
Reactions of Alkenes
Alkynes
Structure and Synthesis of Alcohols
Reaction of Alcohols
Ethers, Epoxides, and Sulfides

Students are responsible for all of the material in the chapters listed above unless
told otherwise and test questions will be taken only from material covered in class.
Therefore, to do well on the exams, you should read these chapters before they are
presented in class, attend lecture, and then do the problems in the middle and at the end
of the chapter shortly after the material is covered.

Required Homework: At the completion of each chapter, problems will be assigned

from the MasteringChemistry online homework website:
http://masteringchemistry.com/site/login.html
The assigned problems must be submitted electronically by the due date. Late or hand
written submissions will not be accepted.

Strongly Suggested Homework: Students should do as many problems in each

chapter of the Wade textbook until you have mastered a topic. This homework will not
be collected or graded; it is a means to prepare you to do well on the exams. You should
work on the homework as soon as possible after the corresponding topic is covered in
lecture. If you dont do the homework, you will not do well on the exams. Also, viewing
a topic at the following website is strongly advised:

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/organic-chemistry
Additional questions and notes can be found on the following websites:
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~alroche/
https://chemistry.boisestate.edu/richardbanks/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/chemistry/