Chemistry 351 - Principles of Organic Chemistry II
Summer 2015, Winona State University, Dr. Thomas Nalli

Tentative Lecture and Exam Schedule

No

Date

Topics

Chapter

1

6/15
Redox Reactions. Reduction of Alkenes, Alkynes, Alkyl Halides, and Epoxides.
12

2

6/16
Redox Reactions continued. Oxidation of Alkenes, Alkynes, and Alcohols
12

3

6/17
Radical Reactions
15

4

6/18
Dienes and Molecular Orbitals
16.1-16.11, 27.2

5

6/19
Benzene and Aromaticity 17

6/22
Exam 1

6 6/23
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
18.1-18.12
7 6/24
Other reactions of aromatic compounds
18.13-18.15, 25.13-25.15
8 6/25
Multistep Synthesis
18.16

9

6/26
Carboxylic Acids 19

6/29
Exam 2

10 6/30
Hydride Reduction of Carbonyl Compounds.
Organometallic Reagents.The Grignard Synthesis.
20
11 7/1
Lithium Dialkylcuprates. Silyl ethers as protecting groups. Aldehydes and Ketones - Properties, Naming and Reactions with Alcohols.
20, 21
12 7/2
Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones with amines. The Wittig reaction. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives - Naming and Properties.
21, 22

13

7/6
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives. Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution. 22
14 7/7
Nitriles. Synthesis. 22.18

7/8
Exam 3
19-22
15 7/9
Substitution reactions at the alpha-Carbon. 23
16 7/10
Synthetic methods for alpha-Alkylation
23

17

7/13
Carbonyl Condensation Reactions. The aldol condensation.
24
18 7/14
Carbonyl Condensation Reactions. Claisen condensation and related reactions.
24
19 7/15
Amines 25.1-25.12
20 7/16
Newer Methods for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation. 26

7/17
Exam 4
23-25