Study Guide for Exam 1
C341 Summer 2012
Important Information:
 7:15-9:15PM Tuesday, September 24 (see room assignments below)
 Bring your student ID
 Show up 10-15 minutes early.
 You may use models, but you may not bring model instructions
 No calculators! No phones!
 Anything else you bring must be in a sealed bag under your chair
Room Assignments:
Last name
A-BT
BU-D
E-LI
LJ-O
P-SI
SJ-Z
in SPEA 276
in Fine Arts 102
in Business 219
in Chemistry 033
in Ballantine 003
in Optometry 111
DSS students: If you have provided the instructor with DSS documentation, please report to Education
Building room 1225 at 5:15PM for your exam. Please confirm with the instructor if you will be using this
option.
Early exams: No one will be permitted to take an exam outside the regularly scheduled room without
PRIOR INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION. If you attempt to do so, you will not be permitted, and you will
receive a zero for the exam.
Exam Content: Chapters 1-3. All material covered in class, homework, or discussion sections could be
on the exam. Some major topics include:
Drawing acceptable condensed structures with formal charges, localized/delocalized electrons, drawing
resonance structures, application of resonance, induction, stability of molecular charges, VSEPR and
bond angles, hybridization, orbital overlap pictures, bond-line drawings, recognize and name functional
groups, acid/base reactions, pKa values, applying base stability principles, acid/base equilibrium, solvents
in acid/base reactions
Suggestions for studying:
 First, review homework and discussion sheets, especially problems you initially missed
 Next, work through additional problems
 Last, take the practice exams given on the webpage. Set aside a two hour period and take the
exam exactly like you would take the real one—no interruptions or references. Work with 1-2
other people to go through the problems or come to office hours to check your work.