CHE 118C
Problem Solving Sessions
Summer Session 1
Tue 5 - 6 pm 118C Problem Solving on Zoom
Join me to practice solving 118C problems. I will be going over worksheet/exam practice problems relevant to the content covered in class. For a more traditional, lecture-style explanation of 118C concepts, try the workshop recordings available in my google drive.
Chem Drop-In
Summer Session 1
MTW 11 am - 2:45 pm Chem Drop-In Shields 167
Office Hours
RF 10 - 11 am OH on Zoom by appt. (sign up here)
MTW - I will be in Chem Drop-In (Shields 167) for in-person office hours.
118C Google Drive
Workshop notes and recordings are available, fill out this form for access. You should be logged in with your ucdavis account. Bookmark the folder or add to starred to make it easy to find. I update the drive access daily. If it has been more than 48 hours since you've submitted the form and you have not received the link in your email, send me a message so I can follow-up on your request. If you've had access in the past and you'd like me to add you again, please fill out the form one more time or email mdjones@ucdavis.edu.
Resources in the 118C folder in Google Drive
Useful handouts and summary pages
Mechanisms and synthesis practice problems
Notes from workshops and office hours
Scanned 118C workshop notebook
Workshop recordings
Resources you will find on this page:
Workshop worksheets and keys
Links to additional resources, including practice exams
Vollhardt and Schore HW worksheets (you will need a solutions manual to check the answers). Some chapters have extra handouts with mechanisms or helpful tables attached, so take a look even if you don't plan on doing the problems.
*** Scroll all the way down for handouts of suggested homework problems from the textbook. ***
Workshop Worksheets
W01 Key Workshop 1 - Carboxylic Acids
W02 Key Workshop 2 - Carboxylic Acids W2 #1b Key
W03 Key Workshop 3 - Carboxylic Acids
W04 Key Workshop 4 - Anhydrides
W05 Key Workshop 5 - Acyl Halides W5 #2b Key
W06 Key Workshop 6 - Esters and Amides
W07 Key Workshop 7 - Nitriles and Amines
W09 Key Workshop 9 - Amines W9 #2b Key
W10 Key Workshop 10 - Aromatic Substitution, Benzylic Rxns
W11 Key Workshop 11 - Benzylic Rxns, Phenols
W14 Key Workshop 14 - Dicarbonyls
W15 Key Workshop 15 - Dicarbonyls
Here's a handout on how to convert from Fischer to Haworth and a ppt of Carbohydrate Chemistry that has some useful figures and mechanisms.
W16 Key Workshop 16 - Carbohydrates
W17 Key Workshop 17 - Carbohydrates
If you notice something silly on a key, like a missing carbon, send an email to mdjones@ucdavis.edu and I will fix it.
Useful Handouts
Additional Resources
Individual appointments with AATC peer tutors and Drop-In tutoring in Shields Library https://tutoring.ucdavis.edu/chemistry
Edna's google sites page - scroll to "Alicia Hart 118" and browse the section for problem sets and exams
Prof. Lievens Weebly - practice problems/exams
Suggested HW from Vollhardt and Schore, 8th Ed.
These handouts contain a subset of end-of-chapter problems from the 8th edition (same problems as in the 6th and 7th editions, but some are numbered differently - see this 118C HW List). They (mostly) match the suggested HW problems from Nasiri and Lievens, but I tried to pick around 10 from each chapter. You will need the solutions manual to check your answers, a used copy of whichever edition you'd like (6th, 7th or 8th) will be just fine.
Ch 20 Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Ch 25: 35 (basicity), 36 (aro), 37 (Paal-Knorr), 39 (EArS), 41 (review), 47, 62-64 (mult choice); random hard mechanisms: 44, 46, 52, 53