,Table of Contents
Partial table of contents:
Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonds.
Representative Carbon Compounds.
An Introduction to Organic Reactions: Acids and Bases.
Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations of Molecules.
Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules.
Alkenes and Alkynes I: Properties and Synthesis.
Alkenes and Alkynes II: Addition Reactions.
Radical Reactions.
Alcohols and Ethers.
Conjugated Unsaturated Systems.
Aromatic Compounds.
Reactions of Aromatic Compounds.
Aldehydes and Ketones I: Nucleophilic Additions to the Carbonyl Group.
Aldehydes and Ketones II: Aldol Reactions.
Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives: Nucleophilic Substitution at the Acyl
Carbon.
Amines.
Carbohydrates.
Lipids.
Answers to Selected Problems.
Glossary.
Index.
,Solomons/Advices
ADVICES FOR STUDYING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
1. Keep up with your studying day to day –– never let yourself get behind, or
better yet, be a little ahead of your instructor. Organic chemistry is a course in
which one idea almost always builds on another that has gone before.
2. Study materials in small units, and be sure that you understand each new
section before you go on to the next. Because of the cumulative nature of organic
chemistry, your studying will be much more effective if you take each new idea as it
comes and try to understand it completely before you move onto the nest concept.
3. Work all of the in-chapter and assigned problems.
4. Write when you study. Write the reactions, mechanisms, structures, and so on,
over and over again. You need to know the material so thoroughly that you can
explain it to someone else. This level of understanding comes to most of us
(those of us without photographic memories) through writing. Only by writing the
reaction mechanisms do we pay sufficient attention to their details:
1) which atoms are connected to which atoms.
2) which bonds break in a reaction and which bonds form.
3) the three-dimensional aspects of the structure.
5. Learning by teaching and explaining (教學相長). Study with your student peers
and practice explaining concepts and mechanisms to each other.
6. Use the answers to the problems in the Study Guide in the proper way:
1) Use the Study Guide to check your answer after you have finished a problem.
2) Use the Study Guide for a clue when you are completely stuck.
The value of a problem is in solving it!
~1~
, Solomons/Advices
7. Use the introductory material in the Study Guide entitled “Solving the puzzle ––
or –– Structure is everything (Almost)” as a bridge from general chemistry to your
beginning study of organic chemistry. Once you have a firm understanding of
structure, the puzzle of organic chemistry can become one of very manageable size
and comprehensible pieces.
8. Use molecular models when you study.
ADVICES FROM STUDENTS TAKING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
COURSE CHEM 220A AT YALE UNIVERSITY
The students listed below from the 2000 fall term have agreed to serve as mentors for Chem 220a
during the 2001 fall term. They are a superb group of people who did exceptionally well in
Chem 220a last year. They know the material and how best to approach learning it. Some of
them have provided their thoughts on attaining success in the course.
Partial List as of April 20, 2001
• Catherine Bradford
My advice on Organic Chemistry:
1. Figure out what works for you and stick with it.
2. Tests: I think the key to doing well on the tests is as much about getting a lot of
sleep as it is about studying. It's important to be sharp when you walk into a test,
so that you'll be able to think clearly about the tricky problems. As far as studying
goes, start studying for them a few nights early. My suggestion for a test on
~2~
Partial table of contents:
Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonds.
Representative Carbon Compounds.
An Introduction to Organic Reactions: Acids and Bases.
Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations of Molecules.
Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules.
Alkenes and Alkynes I: Properties and Synthesis.
Alkenes and Alkynes II: Addition Reactions.
Radical Reactions.
Alcohols and Ethers.
Conjugated Unsaturated Systems.
Aromatic Compounds.
Reactions of Aromatic Compounds.
Aldehydes and Ketones I: Nucleophilic Additions to the Carbonyl Group.
Aldehydes and Ketones II: Aldol Reactions.
Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives: Nucleophilic Substitution at the Acyl
Carbon.
Amines.
Carbohydrates.
Lipids.
Answers to Selected Problems.
Glossary.
Index.
,Solomons/Advices
ADVICES FOR STUDYING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
1. Keep up with your studying day to day –– never let yourself get behind, or
better yet, be a little ahead of your instructor. Organic chemistry is a course in
which one idea almost always builds on another that has gone before.
2. Study materials in small units, and be sure that you understand each new
section before you go on to the next. Because of the cumulative nature of organic
chemistry, your studying will be much more effective if you take each new idea as it
comes and try to understand it completely before you move onto the nest concept.
3. Work all of the in-chapter and assigned problems.
4. Write when you study. Write the reactions, mechanisms, structures, and so on,
over and over again. You need to know the material so thoroughly that you can
explain it to someone else. This level of understanding comes to most of us
(those of us without photographic memories) through writing. Only by writing the
reaction mechanisms do we pay sufficient attention to their details:
1) which atoms are connected to which atoms.
2) which bonds break in a reaction and which bonds form.
3) the three-dimensional aspects of the structure.
5. Learning by teaching and explaining (教學相長). Study with your student peers
and practice explaining concepts and mechanisms to each other.
6. Use the answers to the problems in the Study Guide in the proper way:
1) Use the Study Guide to check your answer after you have finished a problem.
2) Use the Study Guide for a clue when you are completely stuck.
The value of a problem is in solving it!
~1~
, Solomons/Advices
7. Use the introductory material in the Study Guide entitled “Solving the puzzle ––
or –– Structure is everything (Almost)” as a bridge from general chemistry to your
beginning study of organic chemistry. Once you have a firm understanding of
structure, the puzzle of organic chemistry can become one of very manageable size
and comprehensible pieces.
8. Use molecular models when you study.
ADVICES FROM STUDENTS TAKING ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
COURSE CHEM 220A AT YALE UNIVERSITY
The students listed below from the 2000 fall term have agreed to serve as mentors for Chem 220a
during the 2001 fall term. They are a superb group of people who did exceptionally well in
Chem 220a last year. They know the material and how best to approach learning it. Some of
them have provided their thoughts on attaining success in the course.
Partial List as of April 20, 2001
• Catherine Bradford
My advice on Organic Chemistry:
1. Figure out what works for you and stick with it.
2. Tests: I think the key to doing well on the tests is as much about getting a lot of
sleep as it is about studying. It's important to be sharp when you walk into a test,
so that you'll be able to think clearly about the tricky problems. As far as studying
goes, start studying for them a few nights early. My suggestion for a test on
~2~
