Chemistry 035 : Organic Chemistry with Laboratory Dr. Carey S. Reed Office: C-127 Smith Telephone: (814) 949-5752 email: csr4@psu.edu
General Information
Course Content:
The lectures, the book, and the problems are complementary
learning tools. You are responsible for all of them. The
level of the lectures will be set assuming that you have done and understand
the problems and the readings. Everything on exams will at least have
been touched on in lectures, but greater depth in a particular area may come
from problems and readings. Some homework problems will be placed directly
on exams and others will be modified slightly. This is intended to
serve as a way to raise the grades of those who have kept up and understood
the homework. You are encouraged to see me privately if you begin having
trouble with any of the material. The best way to arrange this is to
see me after class so we can talk or set up a conference. I can be
reached at my voice mail at my Altoona Campus office (814) 949-5752.
Sending e-mail to csr4@psu.edu is also possible but my email may not be checked
everyday.
Text :
1. McMurry, J., Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry,
5th ed., 2003, Brooks/Cole Publisher (REQUIRED).
2. Lab Guide for Chemistry 35 & Chemistry 36
Introductory Oganic Chemistry Laboratory, 2005-2006 ed., Hayden
McNeil Pulishers (REQUIRED)
3. Laboratory Notebook with permanently numbered pages
and duplicate carbon pages. (REQUIRED)
4. Traynham, J.G., Organic Nomenclature: A Programmed
Introduction, 5th ed, 1997, Prentice Hall Publisher
(STRONGLY RECOMMENDED)
Models:
A molecular model set is required!!!!!!!
Safety:
Goggles will be worn at all times. Gloves will
be worn when advised.
Prerequisite: Chem
34.
Attendance:
University regulations state that a student should
attend every scheduled class (Policies and Rules for Students section
42-27). Frequent absence from class in unacceptable. If you
miss a class it is your responsibility to determine what material, announcements,
handouts, graded papers, etc., were missed due to your absence.
You should arrange for one of your classmates to hold returned papers in
the event you are absent when papers are returned. I do not assume
responsibility for holding papers if you are not there to pick them up,
or have not made arrangements for someone else to pick them up. I
will, of course, try to hold unclaimed papers for a few days.
Makeups:
At my convenience before the end of the semester.
If you cannot makeup the lab before the semester ends you will be given
a 0 for the lab.
Lab Report due dates: Usually one week
from the completion of the experimental work.
Lab Reports: The following is part of the
laboratory report:
Cover page – Download below.
PreLab – this is to be COMPLETED BEFORE
you come into the lab. If it is not completed, you will not be permitted
to do the experiment till it is completed which may result in insufficient
time for the experiment.
Summary of Experiment – This is a thorough
but BRIEF summary of what you plan to do. This is NOT a summary of
the procedure, which should simply be referenced. State what you plan
to do making sure to include named reactions, special procedures, and special
apparatus utilized. Do NOT give experimental details. Think
of this as what could be a verbal summary you would give if someone asked
what you were doing.
Learning/Experimental Goals – Provide
atleast 3 that would be specific to the experiment.
Reaction Equations and/or Diagrams of Special
Apparatus
Chemical Data Table – Blank data tables
are downloadable at the bottom of page.
Chromatographic Behavior Comparison of Starting
Material and Product
Spectral-Feature Comparison of Starting Material
and Product
Explanation of Product Isolation and Purification
or “Work-Up”
PreLab Exercises – Only for those experiments
that provide them.
InLab – This consists of the your observations
and data that you collected during the experiment in your lab notebook.
The first thing that you should do is reference the source of the procedure.
Since you have referenced the procedure you do not write down every detail
of the experiment, but what you do write must be clear and concise and
in complete sentences. You must include all measurements and observations
for everything that you do as you do it, even if it does not work.
The idea is that based upon what you have written in your lab notebook,
it should be possible for someone to read it and understand exactly what
you did during the experiment and be able to repeat it.
PostLab
Results and Discussion – See the Cover
Page for requested material.
PostLab Exercises – Answer all questions
at the end of the experiment.
Examinations:
There will be three examinations and a final examination.
The dates of these examinations are given in the attached assignment schedule.
The topics covered on the exams will be announced in advanced. You
must SIGN AND PRINT your name on the first page. Make-up examinations
will be given only if I have prior notice with a justifiable and documented
cause (illness or family emergency). A single make-up examination will
be provided near the end of the semester and will cover the material of all
three examinations and will NOT have any multiple choice questions.
Individual make-up examinations following each examination will not be provided.
Rules for deferred grades are determined by the Registrar.
Quizzes:
You must SIGN AND PRINT your name on the first page.
Computing the Course Grade:
Exams will 30%, Final will be 20%, Quizzes will be 10%,
and Lab Reports will be 40% of your grade. Remember, there is no extra
credit in this course. The tentative grade scale is as follows;
Percentage Grade
95 or more
A
92 or more
A-
88 or more
B+
85 or more
B
82 or more
B-
75 or more
C+
70 or more
C
60 or more
D
Less than 60
F
Dropping the Course:
Contact the Office of the Registrar in room 109 Smith.
No course can be dropped after the end of the drop period. This date,
and your final exam time and date, as well as other useful information
is always appended to the copy of course offerings for any semester.
This usually occurs just before or just after the THIRD scheduled examination
in this course (This semester, the third exam is scheduled before the last
day to drop). Caution! in dropping courses is advised because of
a maximum (during your entire PSU tenure) allowed number of credits you
may drop between the end of the "free" drop period until the end of the
allowed drop period (when you have to pay to drop).
Campus Statement on Academic Integrity, adopted
by the Altoona Campus Faculty Senate on March 19, 1985.
"Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly
activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of
this institution. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited
to cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of information or citation, facilitating
acts of academic dishonesty by others, unauthorized prior possession of
examinations, submitting work of another person or work previously used without
informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students."
(Policies and Rules for Students. Section 49-20)
Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
"The penalty for academic dishonesty in less
serious cases consists of a failing grade for the work or test where this
misconduct occurred. This decision is made by the instructor.
For more serious cases of dishonesty, the penalties are more severe, (including
automatic failure for the course, probation, suspension or expulsion from
the University), and formal due process procedures are available for the
student and faculty involved. Section 49-20 of the Policies and
Rules for Students provides the details on these procedures."
Scheduled Classes Not Met:
In Extraordinary circumstances (which have
occurred from time to time in the past, and which will occur from time
to time in the future), when classes are missed due to reasons other
than instructor illness, power failures, weather, and the like, in which
the missed classes are not made up), missed classes will be rescheduled
if possible, in conjunction with the Office of the Registrar. Any
such rearranging and rescheduling would be announced in class so that appropriate
arrangement could be made by all.
Schedule For Spring 2006
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