CHEM 14B-2: WINTER 2005Instructor: Dr. Laurence LavelleGENERAL CHEMISTRY FOR LIFE SCIENCE MAJORS: COURSE ORGANIZATION & SYLLABUSORGANIC SOFTWARE & MODELING ASSIGNMENTS: ChemDraw and Chem3D are very useful in learning to draw, visualize and analyze molecules and are the most commonly use software packages used by chemists at universities and in industry. You will be using this freWEEK 4ElectrochemistryRead: AJ Ch 12.1 to end of 12.11CHEM 14B-2: WINTER 2005 Instructor: Dr. Laurence Lavelle GENERAL CHEMISTRY FOR LIFE SCIENCE MAJORS: COURSE ORGANIZATION & SYLLABUS See other side for lecture schedule DESCRIPTION: This course provides the chemistry foundation required to pursue a career in the life sciences. We cover thermochemistry; the first, second and third law of thermodynamics; free energy changes; electrochemistry; chemical kinetics, catalysis and reaction mechanisms; general classes of organic molecules; functional groups; structure and conformations of organic molecules; stereochemistry of organic molecules; electron delocalization and resonance of organic molecules. These topics will also be related to your 14BL lab experiments, in particular your experiments with p-nitrophenylacetate and aspirin. You will also learn to use scientific software to build chemical models, see three dimensional molecular shapes and determine the relative stabilities of molecules. LECTURES: M, W, F 2pm CS50. Review Sessions: Friday Feb. 25, 3-4pm; Monday Feb. 28, 3-4pm; Wednesday March 16, 3:30-5pm. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Laurence Lavelle, 3048A Young Hall. OFFICE HOURS: M, W, F 3 – 4pm. Brief questions will also be answered after each lecture. Course related information will be available, and your questions can be posted, at any time to the Virtual Office Hours (VOH) under the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Home Page (http://voh.chem.ucla.edu). All technical problems with VOH must be sent to: [email protected] TA's (Teaching Assistants): Amelia Lapena [email protected], Henry Tran [email protected], Joshua Antelman [email protected], Rebecca Kwaan [email protected]. TA's will arrange their own office hours and these will be posted on VOH. You may go to any TA office hour. REQUIRED TEXTS: Chemical Principles: The Quest for Insight, 3rd edition, by Peter Atkins & Loretta Jones (with solution manual & model building kit); and Organic Chemistry, 4th edition, by Paula Bruice (with study guide & solution manual). Careful consideration went into choosing these texts, you will find them good to read. Note: Several other chemistry textbooks have been placed on reserve in College Library, if you desire further supplementary material. READING & HOMEWORK: Read assigned chapters before the related lectures occur. Working through problems will facilitate your learning the course material and developing your problem solving skills. Homework problems are given with the lecture schedule on the back of this page. Homework is not turned in or graded. It is your responsibility to do (at least) the assigned homework in order to master the material covered. You should plan for eight hours of independent study per week, and the more problems you do, the more you will learn. ORGANIC SOFTWARE & MODELING ASSIGNMENTS: ChemDraw and Chem3D are very useful in learning to draw, visualize and analyze molecules and are the most commonly use software packages used by chemists at universities and in industry. You will be using this free software in our excellent Science Learning Center (SLC). EXAMINATIONS: Four 30 minute quizzes directly related to class notes and homework problems will be given in discussion sections. See VOH for quiz and exam schedule. The midterm exam is Tuesday, March 1, 6-7 pm, and the final exam is Wednesday, March 23, 8-10 am. Special Bonus: Each exam will include one question that will be taken from your Student's Solutions Manual. So it is very much in your interest to work through these questions. All quizzes and exams must be written in pen. No make-up quizzes or exams will be given. No one will be permitted to take the final exam either earlier or later than the scheduled time, and no one can receive a passing grade for the course without taking the final exam. There are no regrades. Only non-programmable, non-graphing calculators will be allowed during exams. Pagers and cellular phones are not allowed in the classroom during lectures or exams. Students possessing such items during exams or who commit other forms of academic dishonesty will receive a zero on the exam and will be referred to the Dean of Students.GRADING: Quizzes 40% (25 pts x 4 = 100 pts) Midterm 20% (50 pts) Final 40% (100 pts) Total 100% Each quiz, midterm and final has a total score but is not assigned a grade. Only at the end of the quarter when the class average score (out of 250 points) is known are individual and final grades assigned and they are based/curved on the class average. WEEKLY LECTURE SCHEDULE Lectures Topics Readings and Problems WEEK 1 Thermodynamics: The First Law Read: AJ Ch 6 (Omit: 6.11, 6.20, 6.22) (~4 lectures) Problems: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 29, 33, 37, 39, 45, 53, 55, 59, 63, 73, 75, 93, 105, 107 WEEKS 2 & 3 Thermodynamics: The Second & Third Laws Read: AJ Ch 7 (~5 lectures) Problems: 3, 7, 13, 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 33, 39, 43, 45, 49, 57, 85, 87 Read: AJ Ch 9.3 & 9.11 Problems: 13, 15, 17, 19, 85, 89 WEEK 4 Electrochemistry Read: AJ Ch 12.1 to end of 12.11 (~3 lectures) Problems: 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 37, 39, 43, 47, 95, 97, 101 WEEKS 5 & 6 Chemical Kinetics Read: AJ Ch 13 (~6 lectures) Problems: 1, 9, 15, 19, 21, 25, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63, 67, 75, 77, 83, 95 Tuesday, March 1, 6-7 pm, Midterm Exam, All material to the end of Ch 13. WEEKS 7 & 8 Functional Groups, Alkanes & Cycloalkanes, Review: Bruice Ch 1.1 to end of 1.16 Alkenes Read: Bruice Ch 2 (~6 lectures) Problems: 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 26, 27, 30, 35, 36, 38 Read: Bruice Ch 3.1 to end of 3.5 Problems: 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 WEEKS 9 & 10 Stereochemistry, Read: Bruice Ch 5.1 to end of 5.11 Electron Delocalization and Resonance Problems: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 18, 19, (~6 lectures) 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,