Syllabus Chemistry 320M 328M Fall 2012 Organic Chemistry Part I Unique Numbers Unique Numbers 51845 51965 MWF 10 00 10 50 Welch 2 224 Dr Brent Iverson Office Hours Tuesday 4 5 PM Room WEL 2 304 Thursday 5 6 PM Room WEL 2 312 Note these are not my real offices they are classrooms Teaching Assistant Brian Ikkanda Recitation Monday 4 5 PM Missed the Wave Recitation Room Welch 2 224 Office hours Monday 5 6 PM Room TA Office Area B Teaching Assistant Amy Smith Office Hour Wednesday 9 10 AM Room Old Library Welch 4 132B Teaching Assistant Diana Zamora Office Hour Tuesday 10 11 AM Room TA Office Area B Teaching Assistant Mary Kim Office Hour Tuesday 5 6 PM Room TA Office Area B Teaching Assistant Wenzong Li Office Hour Thursday 4 5 PM Room TA Office Area B Teaching Assistant Cameron Peebles Facebook page TA Weekly Recitation Sessions these will be additional lectures given by the TA s They will be designed to present the lecture material in a different context from the point of view of the TA s with the aim of helping you absorb the material and understand all of the key points Monday 4 5 PM Missed the Wave Recitation Room WEL 2 224 Brian Ikkanda This recitation is specifically reserved for those of you who feel you may be struggling This recitation will encourage questions of all levels especially older material that you are still uncertain about If you are feeling comfortable with the material being presented in class you should NOT attend this recitation If you think you need to improve your background knowledge this is specifically for you Tuesday 6 30 7 30 PM Practice Problems Recitation Room WEL 2 122 Rotating schedule of TA s presenting This recitation will focus on working problems so that you will become familiar with the format and expected answers for the types of questions asked on exams Review Sessions I will be leading these review sessions which will be designed to help you as much as possible prepare for the exams Optional review sessions for the mid term examinations will be given the Monday evening before each exam at on the following days and times Monday September 24 Tuesday October 22 Monday November 12 Room WEL 2 224 8 00 10 00 PM Room WEL 2 224 8 00 10 00 PM Room WEL 2 224 8 00 10 00 PM An optional review session for the final will be given TBA Required Texts 1 Brown Foote Iverson and Anslyn Organic Chemistry 6th Edition Nautilus shell on the front cover Brooks Cole 2 Study Guide for above text Note that the loose leaf version of these books available directly from the publisher at tremendous savings are also perfectly acceptable The 5th edition and the international edition are not the same and are not appropriate substitutes Course Prerequisites For CH320M Chemistry 302 with a grade of at least C and credit or registration for Chemistry 204 or 317 For CH328M Chemistry 302 and either Chemistry 204 or 317 with a grade of at least Cin each and credit or registration for Chemistry 118K Recommended Materials Molecular Models These often make the difference between an A or B and C or lower No kidding buy them if you don t already have them even though they are overpriced Additional Sources Selected old exams are posted on the web page Exam keys will also be posted on the course web page following the exams Homework READ THIS There will be two kinds of homework assigned in this class There will be weekly homework sets that will be turned in BEFORE CLASS on the day it is due These will be graded and the points you earn will amount to extra credit that is added to your next exam grade as T score points or Percentage points whichever is in your best interest The second type of homework will involve book problems that are assigned but not collected These are extremely important as the only way to master organic chemistry is to work many many problems over the course of the semester Facebook Page We have created a facebook page with the intent of facilitating communication between yourselves as well as between yourselves and the TA s and I Search for Where are the electrons to find the page on Facebook or you can link to it directly off the course website We will be monitoring posts on the wall and will respond as our schedules allow There are only two common sense rules 1 All posts must be course content related 2 We reserve the right to remove any post we feel is inappropriate in any way It is important to realize that this electronic mode of communication is to be used by you as an enhancement to the class not a replacement for coming to Office Hours and Recitations Web Page Access This course will have a web page where we will place useful items including a posting of the syllabus Rules of the Day and homework assignments Pictures of the day this will make sense as the semester begins links to the Class E mail and a link to my chemistry movies The page will be accessible from the Chemistry Department Undergraduate Course Home Page or you can get there directly using the following URL http iverson cm utexas edu courses 320M Index html E mail Access electron cm utexas edu There will be E mail access under E mail Us on the web page to us if you want to ask a specific question electronically and not on the public Facebook page Be advised that during peak periods we may not be able to answer every question However I will be Emailing you questions and answers that I think are particulalry important along with any other class announcements Exams Three mid term exams will be given during the course of the semester They will be held on Thursday evenings from 7 00 9 00 PM on the following days Thursday September 27 7 00 9 00 PM Rooms WEL 2 224 WEL 1 308 WEL 1 316 Those of you with last names starting with the letters A L report to WEL 2 224 those with last names starting with M R report to WEL 1 308 those with last names starting with the letters S Z report to WEL 1 316 Alternate Time for excused changes only 4 00 6 00 PM WEL 1 308 Thursday October 25 7 00 9 00 PM Rooms WEL 2 224 WEL 1 308 WEL 1 316 Those of you with last names starting with the letters A L report to WEL 2 224 those with last names starting with M R report to WEL 1 308 those with last names starting with the letters S Z report to WEL 1 316 Alternate Time for excused changes only 4 00 6 00 PM WEL 1 308 Thursday November 15 7 00 9 00 PM Rooms WEL 2 224 WEL 1 308 WEL 1 316 Those of you with last names starting with the …