ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - 14064 - CHEM 211 - 01 (Summer II 2015)
Instructor: Dr. Young-Gi Kim
Department of Chemistry, Delaware State University
Syllabus: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II Lecture - 14064 - CHEM 211 – 01 (Summer II 2015)
1. Course Information
CRN
Credit
Class Time
Class Room
Pre-Requisites
Textbook
Instructor
14064
3
T/W/R, 11:00 AM – 1: 40 PM
Science Center South (SCS), Room 323
CHEM 101, CHEM 102 and CHEM 210
Organic Chemistry, John McMurry, 8th Ed. Cengage (ISBN-10: 0-8400-5444-0)
Dr. Young-Gi Kim, Assistance Professor, Chemistry, Delaware State University
http://www.desu.edu/~ygkim, (302) 857-6535, ygkim@desu.edu
Office: Science Center South (SCS), Room 300
2. Course Description
Organic Chemistry II is the second part of a two-sessional material covering the most common
organic reaction involving certain types of organic compounds. It will be necessary for you to learn
how to name organic compounds, to draw and understand their structures in multi dimensions, and
to learn how chemical structure and chemical reactivity (reactions) are interrelated.
3. Course Objective
To understand the properties and reactivity of important functional groups including conjugated πsystems, aromatic compounds, alcohols, amines, and carbonyl compounds. To teach students how
to assign and interpret important spectroscopic signatures of aromatic compounds, alcohols, amines,
and carbonyl compounds. To teach students how to write detailed mechanisms for important
reaction classes: electrophilic aromatic substitution and carbonyl nucleophilic addition reactions. To
teach students who can plan multi-step syntheses of organic compounds.
4. Required Individual Study
Organic chemistry in many ways resembles a new language and you cannot avoid quite a bit of
memorizing (vocabulary). It is a very intensive course requiring much practice, and to do well, you
have to do a lot of writing – write formulas, write equations, so that you can write complex
structures quickly. You cannot learn organic chemistry just by reading about it. A conservative
estimate for study time is about 4-5 hours per every single day, beginning from day one. It is
important to keep up with the lectures, as they often refer to previously discussed material. It is
very easy to fall behind and very difficult to catch up if you do.
5. Help Center
There will be office hour every week from 2 PM to 3 PM on Wednesday at SCS 300 from the first
week of this class to the last week.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - 14064 - CHEM 211 - 01 (Summer II 2015)
Instructor: Dr. Young-Gi Kim
6. Student Learning Objectives
1. Course Learning Objectives/Outcome. Students will become active learners in the class and
follow class rules.
a. Assessment method: Students’ class performance includes class attendance and class
activities. Attendance will be evaluated in points. A maximum 10 points/lecture (except for
final exam day) will be awarded as follows: a). All students who attend the class will get 5
points. b) An additional 5 points/lecture will be awarded at the end of the semester for
students who were engaged in class learning.
b. Alignment to program(s) learning goals: Department goal 3. College goal II and IV. University
goal II and VI.
2. Course Learning Objectives/Outcome. Student will learn
Objective 1: The knowledge of organic chemistry is often evaluated using multiple choice
questions such as the following:
Choose the order that has the following structures (compounds) correctly arranged with
respect to some physical of chemical property such as boiling point, solubility, acidity,
reactivity, etc.
Choose the major product of the following reaction.
Choose the reactant and reagents that would give the following compound.
Choose the compound most consistent with the following data.
Objective 2. The application of the knowledge of organic chemistry to the solution of complex
problems must be accomplished using written rather than multiple-choice questions.
Common questions are the following:
(a) Give the structures of compounds A-E consistent with the following observations.
(b) Using the curved arrow formalism show how the bond making and bond breaking occurs
in the following transformation.
(c) Show how the following compound could be prepared from reactants and reagents
containing four carbon atoms or less.
a. Assessment method: Assessment will be performed based on students’ performance in
exams and the course project that will be assigned.
b. Alignment to program(s) learning goals:
Department goals 2 and 3/College goals I/University goals I and V.
3. Course Learning Objectives/Outcome. Student will acquire critical thinking skills by utilizing
qualitative and quantitative information toward problem solving
a. Assessment method: Assessment will be performed based on students’ performance in
exams.
b. Alignment to program(s) learning goals:
Department goal 3./College goals II and IV/University goals II and VI
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - 14064 - CHEM 211 - 01 (Summer II 2015)
7.
8.
Grading Policy
Grade
Score Range
A
800-1000
B
700-799
C
600-699
D
500-599
F
0-499
Instructor: Dr. Young-Gi Kim
Evaluation Items
Mid-Term Exams (100 points per exam): Total 400 (40%)
Final Exams: 200 (20%)
Class Participation: 140 (14%)
Course Project*: 100 (10%)
(*Topic will be announced in 7/16/2015; Due on Final Exam Date)
Quiz (20 points per the quiz): Total 160** (16%)
(**The best 8 scores will be selected for the quiz)
 Grand Total: 1000 (100%)
Special Requirement
This course will adhere to the university’s policy on student conduct and behavior including the use
of cell phones found at http://www.desu.edu/sites/default/files/JudicialProcedures(2).pdf). Specific
rules for the class are listed below.
1) Exams attendance is mandatory. No make-up exams will be permitted unless student reports a
special situation. This includes: university business (official document needed), medical
emergency (regular medical appointment is not counted as medical emergency), and other
physical emergencies (relevant official certificate is required). The official document must be
stapled to a make-up slip (can be downloaded from the instructor website:
www.desu.edu/~dradur) that will be filled out by the student and signed by student’s academic
advisor. If student’s advisor is not available, please have the make-up slip signed by Dr. Leonard
Davis.
2) Coming late or leaving early for more than 10 minutes will be counted as absence and no points
for student performance in class will be awarded.
3) Cheating in any format in any of the exams may directly result in F of the quiz/exam and may be
reported to the Department Chairperson of Chemistry for disciplinary action.
4) Silencing cell phone during the class time is required. Each time of violation is taken as serious
disturbance of class and will receive an oral warning. The violation may cause 5 points decrease
in the final grade. Repeated violator will be asked to leave class.
5) Students that are disturbing others by talking, making noises, or eating during the class time will
be required to leave the classroom. Campus security will be called if the student rejects to leave.
6) Students coming for exams are required to follow rules set by the instructor for the class. These
rules include, (i) No cheating can be tolerated; (ii) No cell phones can be used as calculators; (iii)
Using cell phones in any means during quizzes/exams will be taken as cheating; (iv) Using
restroom during quizzes/exams is not allowed until test sheets are submitted.
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY II - 14064 - CHEM 211 - 01 (Summer II 2015)
Instructor: Dr. Young-Gi Kim
7) Students who have learning disabilities and/or need special accommodation please directly
contact DSU Office of Accessibility Service (http://www.desu.edu/academics/office-studentaccessibility-services). We will coordinate the examinations with this office.
9.
Lecture Schedule (Tentative: Minor changes might be made during the semester; Students will be
promptly announced)
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