CHE 118B
Winter 2024 Resources Available
Mariya will be teaching CHE 118B Workshop during Spring 2024.
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Edna Lamsen
Email: enlamsen@ucdavis.edu
Make sure to include "AATC 118B" in the Subject line.
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Mariya will be teaching CHE 118B Workshop during Spring 2024.
Starts Tuesday, April 2
MW 9:30-10:20 am, TR 12:10-1:30 pm PT
Please fill out the following Google Doc or contact me in advance at enlamsen@ucdavis.edu to share what you would like to cover, especially if you have a lot of questions!
25 Minute Appointments
Starts Wednesday, April 3
The Zoom link for our meeting will be provided in the confirmation email.
Please sign in (118B Workshop/videos or Chemistry Office Hours) each time we meet or when you watch a video.
Signing in whenever you attend workshops, office hours, and appointments helps us at the AATC to continue to provide the services we offer our students every quarter. Thank you in advance!
If you come across any websites or videos that you find helpful and would like to share these resources with other students, you are welcome to email me with those links. I will post them on the bottom of this page. Thank you!
CHE 118A and CHE 118B - Summary of Reactions, pKa Table, Reaction Maps, Periodic Table
Fischer Projections
CHE 118 Series - Spec Resources
Recommended YouTube Channels for CHE 118 Series
Workshop 1 - Alkenes 1: General Properties of Double Bonds, Start Alkene Synthesis
Workshop 2 - Alkenes 2: Hydrogenation, Electrophilic Addition, Hydrohalogenation, Hydration, Acid-Catalyzed Equilibration
Workshop 3 - Alkenes 3: Halogenation, Nucleophilic Competition (Haloalkane and Haloether), Oxymercuration-Demercuration
overview of alkene reactions
Workshop 4 - Alkenes 4: Hydroboration-Oxidation, Radical Hydrobromination, Carbenes
Includes explanation of why HCl and HI do not participate in this radical mechanism
Workshop 5 - Alkenes 5: Epoxide Formation and Ring-opening, Vicinal Diols, Ozonolysis, Polymerization, Alkenyl Organometallics, and Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
Note: arrows for the last step is different from Dr. Nasiri's
Workshop 6 - Alkynes 1: Terminal Alkyne Acidity, Preparation of Alkynes, Reduction of Alkynes
Overview of all alkyne reactions
Reduction to trans alkene: arrows for the first step are slightly different from Dr. Nasiri's
Workshop 7 - Alkynes 2: Hydrohalogenation, Halogenation, Halogenation - Nuclephilic Competition, Hydration (With and Without Mercuric-Ion Catalyst), Hydroboration-Oxidation, Keto-Enol Tautomerization
Workshop 8 - Alkynes 3: Radical Hydrobromination; Start Ch. 14: Delocalized Pi Systems, Allylic Reactions (Radical Halogenation, Nucleophilic Substitution, Organometallics)
Workshop 9 - Delocalized Pi Systems 2: Conjugated Dienes: Diene Synthesis, Reactions of Conjugated Dienes: HX, X2
"more stable carbocation" vs. "ion pair" explanations and examples
Workshop 10 - Delocalized Pi Systems 3: Diels Alder Cycloaddition: Diene, Dienophile, Endo Rule
Workshop 11 - Delocalized Pi Systems 4: Electrocyclic Reactions: Ring Closing and Opening; Aromaticity: Aromatic, Nonaromatic, Antiaromatic
Website includes several examples and a flowchart to determine aromatic behavior of cyclic molecules.
Workshop 12 - Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (EAS) 1: Activation and Deactivation of Benzene, Halogenation
Workshop 13 - EAS 2: Friedel Crafts (FC) Alkylation and Acylation, Nitration, Sulfonation
 Nasiri: benzene attacks sulfur trioxide, then protonates intermediate. Sulfonation arrows for first two steps are switched in video.
Video includes EAS examples with benzene reacting with alcohol and boron trifluoride and also an alkene in nonnucleophilic acid. FC Acylation arrows different from Nasiri's arrows,Â
Workshop 14 - EAS 3: Polysubstituted Benzene, Modifying Activators on Benzene
Workshop 15 - Aldehydes and Ketones 1: Oxidation, Ozonolysis, Markovnikov and Anti-Markovnikov                       Hydration, Protecting Groups
Workshop 16 - Aldehydes and Ketones 2: Acid and Base Catalysis, Hemiacetal/Hemiketal, Acetal/Ketal, Imine and Enamine Synthesis
Workshop 17 - Aldehydes and Ketones 3: Wittig, Baeyer Villiger, Fehling's, Tollens; Enols and Enolates 1: Keto-Enol Tautomerization, Acid- and Base-Catalyzed Alpha-Halogenation
Slightly different arrows for migration step (carbonyl O does not pick up proton)
Workshop 18 - Enols and Enolates 2: Forming Enolate Ions, Aldol Formation and Condensation, Michael Addition, Robinson Annulation
Workshop 19 - Enols and Enolates 3: Enamine Alkylation; More Conjugate Additions to Alpha,Beta-Unsaturated Carbonyls: NaH, RMgX, HCN, R2CuLi, NHR2, and more...
Covers reactions from Workshop 15-19
Evaluations for CHE 118B Workshop, Office Hours, and 30 Minute Appointments
It's that time of the quarter again! When you have free time, please fill out an evaluation for CHE 118B Workshop using the link below. Whether you attended once, twice, or all of the workshops, I really hope you will take the time to fill one out. Any and all feedback will be appreciated! Thank you again for attending my workshop this summer session. Wishing you all the best on your final!
Additional Resources and Links
Mariya's Google Site: https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/jones
Jade's Google Site: https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/pratt
Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry (UCLA): https://www.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/IGOC/IGOC.html
Eric the Tutor YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0Hx0Bi7b33NMEuWRc2XMg/playlists
Getting Started with Remote Learning: https://keepteaching.ucdavis.edu/student-resources
Success Coaching and Learning Strategies Resources: https://opportunity.ucdavis.edu/services/scls/resources
Healthy UC Davis: https://healthy.ucdavis.edu
Aggie Compass Basic Needs Center: https://aggiecompass.ucdavis.edu
Metacognition: The Key to Acing Chemistry by Dr. McGuire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGBfd7LeGMM
Recommended reading: Teach Yourself How to Learn (Dr. Saundra Mcguire)
CAS Semester Tookkit (LSU): https://lsu.edu/cas/earnbettergrades/tipsandtools/semestertoolkit.php
Recommended reading: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown, Roediger, McDaniel)
Recommended reading: Organic Chemistry as a Second Language (David Klein)
Study and Exam Tips: https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/study-and-exam-tips/
Michael Evans Organic Chemistry YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelEvans86 (CHEM 2311 and CHEM 2312 Playlists)
The Organic Chemistry Tutor videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOrganicChemistryTutor/
MIT Courseware - Principles of Chemical Science (Prof. Drennan): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/5-111sc-principles-of-chemical-science-fall-2014/pages/syllabus/
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