Chem 242 @ Dickinson

The end of Chapter 17

Today we finished the material in Chapter 17. There were a few main topics: The ability to control the nature of the stereocenter in substitution reactions by varying the nature of the reagents, oxidations of alcohols, and the use of protecting groups in synthesis. We also spent a little bit of time at the end discussing phenols and how they keep food from going rancid.

There was also general grumbling over Facebook's new "I know what you are doing and when" policy.

Our schedule for Chapter 18: Friday we will cover 18.1 - 18.6 and next Monday we will do 18.7 & 18.8.

As promised, here is last year's test (page 1, page 2, page 3).

posted by DCChem @ 10:05 AM