CHEM 331
COURSE HANDOUTS/NOTES
1. INTRODUCTION
INTRO LECTURE: Environmental Organic Chemistry
Introduction to Important Classes of Environmentally Relevant Compounds
Penguinone: Introductory Structure-activity Exercise
More Functional Groups: Lewis structure and FG Exercise
Review: Intermolecular Forces
Textbook Questions: 2.5, 2.8 - 2.18, 2.20 and P2.1
2. MOLECULAR TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTION
Textbook Questions: 3.1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7-3.9, 3.11 and P3.1
Example Questions involving Vapour Pressure
Textbook Questions: 4.5, 4.7-4.9 and P4.1, P4.4 - P4.7
Example Questions involving Water Solubility
Textbook Questions: 5.1, 5.2, 5.5 - 5.7 and P5.1, P5.3 - P5.6
Textbook Questions: 6.2 - 6.5, 6.8, 6.9 and P6.2, P6.3, P6.6
Textbook Questions: 7.1, 7.2, 7.6, 7.7 and P7.1, P7.2, P7.4, P7.5
Example Questions involving Air/water and Octanol/water Partitioning
3. CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENT (Chapter 12)
More Kinetics Review
Example Problems: Substituent Constants (inductive vs resonance effects)
Example Problems: Hammett Equation Solutions
Textbook Questions: 8.1 - 8.9, P8.1, P8.3
Textbook Questions: 12.2, 12.5-12.8, 12.10, 12.11
4. NUCLEOPHILIC REACTIONS: HYDROLYSIS (Chapter 13)
Example Problems: Hydrolysis Kinetics Solutions
Textbook Questions: 13.1 13.4, 13.6-13.9, 13.12, 13.13 and P13.2, P13.3, P13.5, P13.6, P13.7, P13.8, P13.9
5. REDOX REACTIONS (Chapter 14)
Review Organic Oxidation States
Environmental Reduction Reactions
Environmental Standard Reduction Potentials
Textbook Questions: 14.1 14.2, 14.3, 14.9-14.12 and P14.7, P14.8, P14.9