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Study Guide Exam 2
Exam 2, on Tuesday May 8th, will cover chapters 13 and 14.1 to 14.3. The exam is an
open lecture and lab note but closed textbook exam. You will be provided a copy of the
periodic table, electronegativity values and trends and a table of the functional groups
that we study in this course, and thus you do not need to rely on memorization as much
but have the ability to solve the problems and use provided information. Quizzes,
homework problems, practice exam, and the active learning exercises are indicative of
the type of questions you will be asked.
You are responsible for material covered both in the textbook and in the lectures.
Generally, you need to be proficient in naming alcohols, phenols, ethers, thiols,
aldehydes, and ketones and writing their structural formulas. You will need to be very
familiar with reactions of alcohols, phenols, ethers, and thiols. You ARE NOT
responsible for material covered in sections 14.4 and 14.5 (reactions involving aldehydes
and ketones) as this material will be tested on exam 3. You are expected to know how to
synthesize organic products involving reactions we have thus far learned and predict
products from starting material. You do need to know the physical properties of the
functional groups started on the tested chapters and their role.
Topics you will be tested on are:
Naming alcohols, phenols, ethers,
and thiol compounds
Writing structural formulas
o Condensed
structural
formulas
o Expanded structural formulas
o Line-bond formulas
o Going from one structural
formula to another (e.g. from
line-bond to condensed or the
opposite)
o Structural isomers
Physical property of alcohols,
phenols, and ethers
Reactions of alcohols and thiols in
addition to those involving alkanes
and alkenes
o Dehydration of alcohols
o Oxidation of alcohols to form
aldehydes and ketones
o Oxidation of thiols to form
disulfide bonds
o Oxidation of aldehydes to
carboxylic acid
o Formation of ethers
o Halogenation (old material)
o Hydration (old material)
o Hydrohalogenation
(old
material)
o Combustion of alcohols
o Hydrogenation (old material)
Ability to predict major organic
products from starting material
Ability to come up with synthetic
routes for given organic products
Material learned in earlier chapters is
still relevant
You will NOT be tested on
material in sections 14.4 to 14.5 of
chapter 14
Much of these are skills you have learned in lecture, covered by your homework
problems, quizzes, group activity exercises, and active learning exercises. As such, you
ought to be adept in these topics and very familiar with them.