TENTATIVE CHEMISTRY 351 TUTORIAL (CAL ACTIVITIES and ASSIGNMENTS) W24 Last modified:

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CHEM 351 Tutorials:

• Your CHEM 351 Tutorials will consist of 5 separate Modules of material.
• Each of Modules 1-3 will have an activity week (1%) and assignment week (4%), Module 4 will have an extra practice week to help with understanding Spectroscopy, while Module 5 will have just an assignment week (5%).
• In an activity week you will work with a group in the CAL room through a Lesson in Moodle before writing a 10 minute individual quiz (1% or 0%).
• In an assignment week you will do a 50 minute individual assignment (4% or 5% for modules 1-4 and 5% for module 5).
• The 1% or 0% in activities and the 4% or 5% in assignments, is that we want there to be flexibility. If you do well in the activity week quiz it can be worth 1% and the Assignment the following week can then be worth 4%. However, if you do better on the Assignment week the Assignment will automatically be worth 5% and it will be like the activity week was just practice.
• With this format, we are setting it up so there is no risk to coming and trying during an activity week.
• To prepare for activity weeks you should look at the recommended reading material within that specific Module.
• Between the activity week and assignment week you should review what was challenging on the activity quiz and do the moodle self-assessments to help you prepare for the assignment.
• A key thing to remember is the activity week focuses on a couple of the struggle points within some of that Module of material. Just because you do well on the activity does not gaurantee a perfect grade on the assignment, as not all material is tested in the activity week. Make sure you are taking the time to re-read material and do all the self-assessments to prepare for the assignment.
• For Modules 1 and 2 the activity weeks will focus on nomenclature, while you should be reviewing structure and function in the lecture. This means that there will be extra self-assessment material besides the nomenclature. This material will be tested during the assignment week so there is more material on an assignment than what you see for the focus on the activity quiz.
• For Modules 3 and 4 all topics should be fair game but time constraints in the activity quiz will make is so ALL may not be addressed in both the activity week and assignment weeks.
• The dates and content of each module are provided below.
• You should assume that the coverage is cumulative (i.e. content from a previous module is expected in later modules).
• These assignments should be completed in your registered tutorial time during the week specified (synchronous activity) in the Tutorial room (SA 204).
• Activity quizzes and Assignments will be written under exam conditions.
• All the activity quizzes have a 10 minute time limit while assignments have a 50 minute time limit.
• Remember if you do not attend an activity or do better on the assignment than the activity, instead of the scoring being 4% assignment and 1% activity, your grade will be automatically shifted to be 5% assignment and 0% activity. This creates a very low stakes approach to the activity weeks and helps you to focus on the learning more than the grade on the quiz.

ABSENCES

• If for some reason you cannot attend an activity week your grade will automatically be shifted to the assginment so there is no need to report an absence during an activity week.
• If you for some reason cannot attend an assignment week, you should fill out the CHEM 351 Missed Coursework Form.
• Only legitimate reasons for missing your assignment will be considered for a makeup tutorial (i.e. excuses from the past like "it was my birthday" or "I needed to help do yardwork", will not give you a makeup or excused absence.
• If you want to reschedule in order to study for an exam in another course, this will not be plausible, since odds are a good portion of students in the course will also be taking this other course so to keep things fair we cannot accommodate excuses along these lines.
• With almost 700 students in the course and only a half a dozen or so makeup slots where computers are available in the room we have to be selective in what we can accommodate. Rest assured though if you are not well on the day of your assignment, we will do our best to make sure you are accommodated. So for the wellbeing of others please don't come to the tutorial room sick.)
• Make up tutorial assignments will need to be rescheduled within the tutorial week between Tuesday-Thursday when we have the room booked. If you are making more than one request for a makeup assignment priority will be given to those making a first request.
• In cases where it is not possible to do a makeup tutorial assignment for a legitimate reason, the grade for that assignment will be given the same score as the score on the final examination, as outlined in the course outline.

MOODLE should be made active just before tutorials start on Jan 8th 2024 for Chem 351 W2024. We want students logging in for the first time during their tutorial so any issues with logging in can be addressed one-on-one with your tutorial instructor.
The most important preparation materials are from the etext, not Moodle. Information is provided below for each Module. This means you can start preparing and reviewing the material BEFORE you have access to Moodle.

"Exam conditions" means that you will be allowed to use a non-programmable calculator and/or model kit and have access to a periodic table and spectroscopy data tables if required. No other resources should be used while completing an assignment. These are the same resources that are allowed in examinations (i.e. midterm, final). It also means, that like examinations, you should not interact in any way with another student while completing the assignment. Anyone found breaking these rules may be awarded a zero and it will be reported as academic misconduct which could have even greater implications.

If you have any doubt as to the interpretation of the statement about "exam conditions" talk to your tutorial instructor, instructor or the course coordinator before taking a risk!

The questions in the activities and assignments will be of a similar type to those in Chem 351 examinations and sometimes you will even see "this question is from the 20XX midterm or final" within the activity questions etc.

Link to general information about the CAL

If you have any further queries about these assignments, please contact the CAL coordinator, Dr Erin Sullivan.

• Your tutorial instructor will overview the tutorial materials and expectations for the tutorial.
• Please bring any questions you may have about the tutorial layout to the tutorial this week
• Get logged in to Moodle (UofC credentials are required)
• Once into the Moodle Chem 351, you will need to review the document that describes how Moodle works and the key features.
• Complete the "Moodle User Policy Quiz" (note that a 100% score required before you can get access to other Moodle materials)
• Then work through the "Organic Structure Drawing Tool 101" training exercise (it is not for coursemarks, it trains you to use the tool which is an important part of the CAL materials, 75% minimum score required)
• When you finish, that you should start the review / preparation for the first module (see below).

Weeks 2-3: MODULE 1: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 1

MODULE 1: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 1 covers:

a. basic functional group recognition, the basic rules of organic nomenclature and the application of these to the nomenclature of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and alkyl halides.
b. structure and bonding (lecture topics : e.g. atomic structure and properties, bond types, bond properties, VSEPR etc.)
c. the language of organic chemistry (lecture topics : e.g. using arrows correctly, structure diagrams, language (definitions and terminology) etc.)

While the material in 351.1b and 351.1c should be review from Chem 201/203, it is important to have a good, solid background knowledge to build from.

For most though some of the nomenclature in 351.1a should be new. This is where the acitivity week (Jan 15-19) will focus.

In order to be ready for an activity week you should read through the corresponding organic nomenclature from the etextbook.

To complete the assignment, you should reflect on your group activity work, what you have reviewed in lectures and work through ALL the self-assessments (351.1a, 351.1b and 351.1c). As needed you may need to re-reference the appropriate material from the etext and/or lecture notes as you require.

a. The following materials on NOMENCLATURE are recommended to prepare for the Activity Week and Assignment week:

• Our etextbook site: Basic Organic Nomenclature, sections 1-9 (1-5 general background plus 6 alkanes, 7 alkenes, 8 alkynes and 9 alkyl halides)

b. The following materials on STRUCTURE and BONDING are recommended to prepare for the Assignment week:

• Organic Chemistry On-Line Learning Center : Atoms, electrons and orbitals, electronegativity, bonding, formal charges, and VSEPR

c. The following materials on Curly arrows are recommended:

• Organic Chemistry On-Line Learning Center : curly arrows, and from the first year textbook curly arrows

Moodle self assessments 351.1a, 1b, and 1c are recommended to check your preparation for this assignment once you have worked through the review materials. You can always work on these self-asssessments outside of the tutorial time to help you prepare for the upcoming quizzes and assignments.

Week 2, Jan 15-19, 2024.

The recommended tasks in this activity week are:

• Work with your group to complete the Group Work Lesson in the room, SA 204.
• If you have questions as a group you can make reference to the etext or reach out to your tutorial instructor who is there in the room to help.
• If your group finishes this early take the rest of the time before the quiz (1%) to review / prepare for the first assignment CAL351.1 next week (4%).
• During the last 10-15 minutes of the tutorial you will write an individual 10-minute quiz (1%) that is meant to help you prepare for some of the nomenclature basics in the first Assignment CAL351.1 next week (4%).

Week 3, Jan 22-26 2024

Assignment CAL 351.1:Organic Foundations 1 is to be completed during your scheduled tutorial session Wednesday - Thursday Jan 24-25, 2024, 50 minute time limit, in SA 204, worth 4% (or 5% if you score better on the assignment than your activity week quiz).

Weeks 4 and 5: MODULE 2: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 2

MODULE 2: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 2 expands on ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 1 and covers:

a. application of basic nomenclature rules to alcohols, thiols, ethers, amines, aldehydes and ketones.
b. structure and bonding (e.g. hybridisation, resonance)

In order to be ready for an activity week you should read through the corresponding material from the etext and/or lecture notes. You should also review and learn from your mistakes in the CAL 351.1 (the previous assingment). To complete the assignment, you should reflect on your group activity work and work through the self-assessments. As needed you may need to re-reference the appropriate material from the etext and/or lecture notes as you require.

a. The following materials on NOMENCLATURE are recommended to prepare for the Activity week and Assignment week:

• Our etextbook site: Basic Organic Nomenclature, sections 10-15 (alcohols, thiols, ethers, amines, aldehydes and ketones)
  

b. The following materials on STRUCTURE and BONDING lecture topics are recommended to prepare for the Assignemnt week:

• Organic Chemistry On-Line Learning Center : hybridisation, hydrocarbon structure and bonding : alkanes, alkenes and alkynes; resonance ( more resonance here...),

Moodle self assessments 351.2a and 2b are recommended to check your preparation for this assignment once you have worked through the review materials.

Week 4, Jan 29 - Feb 2 2024

During this activity week, the recommended tasks are:

• Work with your group to complete the Group Work Lesson in the room, SA 204.
• If you have questions as a group you can make reference to the etext or reach out to your tutorial instructor who is there in the room to help.
• If your group finishes this early take the rest of the time before the quiz (1%) to review / prepare for the second assignment, CAL351.A2, next week (4%).
• During the last 10-15 minutes of the tutorial you will write an individual 10-minute quiz (1%) that is meant to help you prepare for some of the sticky points in the second assignment, CAL351.2, next week (4%).

Week 5, Feb 5-9 2024

Assignment CAL 351.2:Organic Foundations 2 is to be completed during scheduled tutorial session Week 6 Oct 10-12, 50 minute time limit, in SA 204, worth 4%.

Weeks 6 and 7: MODULE 3: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 3

MODULE 3: ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 3 expands on ORGANIC FOUNDATIONS 1 & 2 and covers:

a. application of basic nomenclature rules to carboxylic acids, esters, amides, acyl halides, acid anhydrides, nitriles, benzenes and stereochemistry.
b. curly arrows (for drawing mechanisms, deriving resonance structures etc.) (lecture)
c. acidity and basicity (lecture)
d. thermodynamics and stability (lecture)
e. isomerism (lecture)
f. properties of alkanes and cycloalkanes (lecture)

In order to be ready for an activity week you should read through the corresponding material from the etext and/or lecture notes. You should also review and learn from your mistakes in the CAL 351.2 (the previous assingment). To complete the assignment, you should reflect on your group activity work and work through the self-assessments. As needed you may need to re-reference the appropriate material from the etext and/or lecture notes as you require.

a. The following materials on NOMENCLATURE are recommended:

• Our etextbook site: Basic Organic Nomenclature, sections 16-23 (carboxylic acids, esters, amides, acyl halides, acid anhydrides, nitriles, benzenes and stereochemistry.)
  

The following materials on STRUCTURE, BONDING and FUNCTION related to lecture topics are available in the online etext:

• bonding in alkanes, alkenes and alkynes
• formal charges
  
• isomers
• properties of alkanes and cycloalkanes
• acidity and basicity of organic compounds
• acidity and basicity
• structure and pKa
• acidity ladder of pKa
• curly arrows

b. Moodle self assessments 351.3a and 3b are recommended to check your preparation for this assignment once you have worked through the review materials.

Week 6, Feb 12-16 2024

During this activity week, the recommended tasks are:

• Work with your group to complete the Group Work Lesson in the room, SA 204.
• If you have questions as a group you can make reference to the etext or reach out to your tutorial instructor who is there in the room to help.
• If your group finishes this early take the rest of the time before the quiz (1%) to review / prepare for the quiz and the third assignment, CAL351.3, next week (4%).
• Just before the quiz your tutorial instructor will take a few minutes to go through the answers and be available for more questions that might not have arisen while your group was working through the problems.
• During the last 10-15 minutes of the tutorial you will write an individual 10-minute quiz (1%) that is meant to help you prepare for some of the sticky points in the third assignment, CAL351.3, next week (4%).

Week 7, Feb 26 - March 1 2024

Assignment CAL 351.3: Organic Foundations 3 is to be completed during scheduled tutorial session Week 7 Feb 28-29, 50 minute time limit, in SA 204, worth 4%.

Weeks 9 - 11: MODULE 4: SPECTROSCOPY

MODULE 4: Spectroscopy requires that you deduce the structure of a compound from its MS, IR, 13C and H-NMR.

• Note that on an examination you should be solving this type of problem in about 15-20 minutes !
• There are three levels to choose from EASY (max grade = 8 out of 10) or STANDARD (max grade = 10 out of 10) or HARD (max grade = 12 out of 10)
• You get to SELECT THE PROBLEM LEVEL FOR YOURSELF. Once you have select a problem you can't change the level.
• As you work through the problems in the activity week and do the self-assessments to help prepare for the assignment week you should be thinking through what level of question you want to do.

Week 9, Mar 11-15 2024

During this activity week, the recommended tasks are:

• Work with your group to complete the Group Work Lesson in the room, SA 204.
• If you have questions as a group you can make reference to the etext or reach out to your tutorial instructor who is there in the room to help.
• If your group finishes this early take the rest of the time before the quiz (1%) to review / prepare for the fourth assignment, CAL351.4, next week (4%).
• During the last 10-15 minutes of the tutorial you have the option to write an individual 10-minute quiz (1%) that is meant to help you prepare for some of the sticky points in the fourth assignment, CAL351.A4, (4%).

Week 10, Mar 18-22 2024

During this bonus practice week, the recommended tasks are:

• Work with your group to complete the Group Work Lesson in the room, SA 204.
• If you have questions as a group you can make reference to the etext or reach out to your tutorial instructor who is there in the room to help.
• If your group finishes this early take the rest of the time to work through spectroscopy practice questions. Remember the TA in the room is there to help with any questions you may have with the material.
• During the last 10-15 minutes of the tutorial you have the option to write an individual 10-minute quiz (1%) that is meant to help you prepare for some of the sticky points in the fourth assignment, CAL351.A4, next week (4%). This optional individual 10-minute quiz (1%) will be different than the 1% quiz from the previous week, as they will test different parts of spectroscopy. If you do better on either of these quizzes than your assignment, it will count for 1% of your overall grade and the assignment 4%. If you do better on the Assignment the following week then the assignment will be worth 5% and both of these optional activity weeks will be worth 0% and would have just been some great practice of the material.

Week 11, Mar 25-29 2024

You will do the fourth assignment, CAL351.4 and will be able to choose your difficulty, as described above.

An important resource available is the interactive online spectroscopy problems in the Spectroscopy chapter of the etext that are strongly recommended as preparation for this module.

Suggestions of materials to review to help you understand the topics are:

1.  Read Solving Spectral Problems using the fragment approach

2.  Work through our interactive online spectroscopy problems for PRACTICE !

3.  Other Online Materials:
Useful materials can be located at the following sites:

• An electronic Organic Textbook
• UCLA - Webspectra
• Notre Dame - Organic Structure Elucidation workbook

Week 12 Apr 1-5, 2024: MODULE 5: ALCOHOLS, ALKYL HALIDES AND ALKENE and their REACTIONS

Although you had an activity week to help you prepare for assignments 1-4, since our last week of classes end on a Wednesday instead of a Thursday, our last week of Tutorial is the 12th week instead of the 13th week this semester. This means that after having a week of tutorial help each week with group activities to help you prepare, this week it's all on you to review your material from lecture and the etext to help prepare for this final assignment. Remember you can always reach out to the course discussion board or your instructor with questions.

Assignment 351.5 is to be completed during scheduled tutorial session Week 12 Apr 1-5, 2024, 50 minute time limit, in SA 204.

CAL 351.5 continues to build on assignments 1-4 and also covers:

a. radical substitution reactions (halogenation of alkanes and related systems)
b. structure and properties of alkyl halides, alcohols, alkenes.
c. nucleophilic substitution reactions of alcohols, alkyl halides and related systems.
d. elimination reactions of alcohols, alkyl halides and related systems.

In order to be ready to complete the assignment, you should work through the CAL materials and / or the appropriate material from the course textbook as you require.

1.  Links to important materials in the Organic Chemistry On-Line Learning Center (but you should look at Ch4, Ch8 and Ch5 for the more general issues)

• Properties of Alcohols, Alkyl halides, and Alkenes
• Nucleophilic Substitution reactions
• Nucleophiles, Leaving Groups, Carbocations
• SN1 and SN2 reactions
• Nucleophilic substitution reactions of alkyl halides and alcohols
• Radical Substitution reactions
• Elimination reactions
• E1 and E2 reactions
• Elimination reactions of alkyl halides and alcohols

2.  Other Online Materials:
Useful materials can be located at the following sites:

• Virtual Textbook (Michigan State University)