Chemistry 351, Spring 2020, Winona State University, Dr. T. Nalli


Tentative Lecture Schedule
revised 3/29/2020
Note: The chapter readings given correspond to Klein Organic Chemistry 2nd edition (the hard copy that you all have).
 If you are using the etext available through WileyPlus then you should subtract 1 from the listed chapter.
For example, if the reference given below is to chapter 20 then that would be chapter 19 in the etext.


Date

Topics

Chapter

Recording

1

1/13 Synthesis tools. Review of reactions from Chem 350 with emphasis on Chapter 11. 11-12

2

1/15 Multistep synthesis. Retrosynthetic analysis. 12

3

1/17 Alcohols,  Phenols, Glycols. Physical properties and acidity.  Reactions of alcohols: preparation of alkyl halides.
13.1-2, 13.9

4

1/22 Oxidation of alcohols
Methods for alcohol preparation. Hydride reduction of ketones, aldehydes.
13.10, 13.4-13.5

5

1/24 Grignard synthesis of alcohols. Synthesis strategies.
13.6, 13.12

6

1/27 Ethers - Nomenclature, Preparation, and Reactions. Silyl ethers as protecting groups.  Multistep syntheses requiring protected alcohols. 13.7, 14.1-14.6

7

1/29 Cyclic Ethers - Nomenclature, Preparation, and Reactions. Regiochemistry of reactions of unsymmetrical epoxides. Use of epoxides in the Grignard synthesis. 14.5, 14.6-14.10

8

1/31 Stereochemistry of epoxide ring opening. Bromohydrin route to epoxides. Asymmetric epoxidation. Crown Ethers
14.4, 14.8-14.11

9

2/3
  Sulfur compounds. 14.11

10

2/5
   Dienes.  Conjugated diene stability. Resonance vs bond hybridization arguments. Intro to molecular orbital theory.
17.1-17.3


2/7 Exam 1 11-14
11 2/10 Drawing the HOMO and LUMO of a conjugated polyene. Electrophilic addition to conjugated dienes. Thermodynamic vs kinetic control.  MOs for the allylic cation.
17.3-17.5


12 2/12 Benzene and Aromaticity. MOs for cyclic conjugated systems. Cyclobutadiene and cyclooctatetraene.
18.1-18.4
13 2/14 The Huckel Rule. Theoretical criteria and experimental hallmarks of aromaticity. The annulenes. Aromatic and antiaromatic ions.
18.1-18.5

14

2/17 Aromatic ions continued. Cyclooctatetarene dication and sianion. Heteroaromatic rings. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Buckminster Fullerene.
18.5

15

2/19 Electrophilic aromatic substitution - general mechanism. Friedel-Crafts reactions. Rearrangements in F.C. alkylation. F.C. acylation followed by reduction of the C=O to CH2. Halogenation. Nitration.
19.1-19.6

16

2/21 Substituent effects in SEAr reactions.
19.3, 19.7-19.10

17 2/24 Sulfonation. Synthesis of ortho isomers. Reduction of aromatic nitro groups. Halogenation.
19.5-19.6, 19.11-19.12

18 2/26
 Friedel-Crafts limitations and synthetic implications. SEAr reactions on disubstituted rings. Side chain reactions. Birch reduction.
19.4, 19.12, 18.6-18.7

19

2/28
Birch reduction. Nucleophilic substitution on benzene rings. The SNAr and Benzyne mechanisms. Benzenediazonium salts.   19.13-19.14, 23.11 
20 3/2
Synthesis of subsituted benzene rings using retrosynthetic analysis/
19
21  3/4
 Aldehyde/Ketone properties and reactions. Nucleophilic addition of hydride and Grignard reagents. 20.3-4, 20.9-20.10


3/6 Exam 2 17.1-17.5, 18-19, 23.11

22
3/30
Aldehyde/Ketone reactions. Hydration. Acetal formation. Acetals as protecting groups. 20.5, 20.7, 20.8
Zoom 03302020

23

4/1 Reactions of aldehydes and ketones with amines: Imines and Enamines. Hydrolysis of imines and enamines.
20.6, 20.7

Zoom 04012020

24

4/3  Wittig synthesis. Julia-Kocienski reaction. Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation. 20.10-20.12
Zoom 04032020

ILL 04032020

25

4/6
Carboxylic Acids. Naming, properties, and reactions. Fatty Acids. 21.1-21.5 Zoom 04062020

ILL 04062020
26 4/8
Reactivity of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives.  Interconversions of CADs. Hydrolysis of CADs. 21.6-21.12
Zoom 04082020

27

4/10 More examples of CAD reactions: Saponification. Fisher esterification. Transesterification. 21.6-21.12
Zoom 04102020

ILL 04102020
28 4/13
Hydrolysis of nitriles. Nitrile synthesis of carboxylic acids. Reactions of esters and acid chlorides with hydride donors and organometallics. 21.13, 21.8-21.12

 29 4/15
Conversion of amides to nitriles using thionyl chloride. Reactions of nitriles with hydride sources and organometallics. Nomenclature: imides, lactams, and lactones. 21.13

4/20 Exam 3
20-21

30
4/22 Enolate chemistry. Epimerization and halogenation of the alpha carbon. The haloform reaction. 21.1-21.2
31 4/24 alpha-Alkylation. Kinetic vs Thermodynamic Enolates. The acetoacetic ester and malonic ester syntheses. 22.5
32 4/27
The aldol condensation. Crossed aldols and directed aldols. 22.3

33 4/29
Variations on the aldol condensation: Addition reactions of highly stabilized enolates and enolate relatives. Intramolecular aldols.   22.3

33

5/1
Reactions of Esters; the Claisen condensation. Intramolecular Claisen. Michael additions. Stork enamine synthesis. Robinson annulation. 22.4, 22.6-22.7

  5/6 Final Exam  1-22