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Organic Chemistry:Principles and MechanismsSecond EditionJoel M. KartyMichelle BoucherUTICA COLLEGECliff CossNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITYStephen PruettJEFFERSON COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE’SGUIDE

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PrefacevIntroductionixChapter 1:Atomic and Molecular Structure1Interchapter A:Nomenclature: The Basic System for Naming Simple Organic Compounds—Alkanes,Haloalkanes, Nitroalkanes, Cycloalkanes, and Ethers6Chapter 2:Three-Dimensional Geometry, Intermolecular Interactions, and Physical Properties9Chapter 3:Orbital Interactions 1: Hybridization and Two-Center Molecular Orbitals14Interchapter B:Naming Alkenes, Alkynes, and Benzene Derivatives18Chapter 4:Isomerism 1: Conformers and Constitutional Isomers21Chapter 5:Isomerism 2: Chirality, Enantiomers, and Diastereomers27Interchapter C:Stereochemistry in Nomenclature:RandSConfigurations about Asymmetric Carbons andZandEConfigurations about Double Bonds33Chapter 6:The Proton Transfer Reaction: An Introduction to Mechanisms, Thermodynamics, and ChargeStability36Chapter 7:An Overview of the Most Common Elementary Steps42Interchapter D:Molecular Orbital Theory, Hyperconjugation, and Chemical Reactions48Interchapter E:Naming Compounds with a Functional Group That Calls for a Suffix 1: Alcohols, Amines,Ketones, and Aldehydes51Chapter 8:An Introduction to Multistep Mechanisms: SN1 and E1 Reactions and Their Comparisons to SN2 and E2Reactions54Chapter 9:Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions 1: Competition among SN2, SN1, E2, and E1Reactions59Interchapter F:Naming Compounds with a Functional Group That Calls for a Suffix 2: Carboxylic Acids andTheir Derivatives66Chapter 10:Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions 2: Reactions That Are Useful for Synthesis68Chapter 11:Electrophilic Addition to NonpolarBonds 1: Addition of a Brønsted Acid74Chapter 12:Electrophilic Addition to NonpolarBonds 2: Reactions Involving Cyclic Transition States78Chapter 13:Organic Synthesis 1: Beginning Concepts in Designing Multistep Synthesis83Chapter 14:Orbital Interactions 2: ExtendedSystems, Conjugation, and Aromaticity89Chapter 15:Structure Determination 1: Ultraviolet–Visible and Infrared Spectroscopies94Chapter 16:Structure Determination 2: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry100Chapter 17:Nucleophilic Addition to PolarBonds 1: Addition of Strong Nucleophiles107Chapter 18:Nucleophilic Addition to PolarBonds 2: Weak Nucleophiles and Acid and Base Catalysis112Chapter 19:Organic Synthesis 2: Intermediate Topics in Synthesis Design, and Useful Redox and Carbon–CarbonBond-Forming Reactions118Chapter 20:Nucleophilic Addition–Elimination Reactions 1: The General Mechanism Involving StrongNucleophiles123Chapter 21:Nucleophilic Addition–Elimination Reactions 2: Weak Nucleophiles127Chapter 22:Aromatic Substitution 1: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution on Benzene; Useful AccompanyingReactions132Chapter 23:Aromatic Substitution 2: Reactions of Substituted Benzenes and Other Rings136Chapter 24:The Diels–Alder Reaction and Other Pericyclic Reactions141Chapter 25:Reactions Involving Free Radicals146Interchapter G:Fragmentation Pathways in Mass Spectrometry150Chapter 26:Polymers152Additional Resources157Sample Syllabi161Problem Correlation Table177

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(73()2"//+I met Joel Karty in 2005 at a conference. At that point, I had been teaching organic chemistry for more than10 years. On the basis of students’ success at other institutions and their reports of scores on standardized examssuch as the PCAT, MCAT, and DAT, I felt that I was successful as an organic instructor. I was also content—though not necessarily happy—with the textbook I was using.Joel and I spent hours at that conference talking about his work in progress, a new textbook for organic chemistrythat would be structured around mechanism types rather than functional groups. I was a hard sell for his proposedreorganization of the material. Having been forced to teach out of books not of my choosing on several occasions, Ihad found that a “bad” textbook did not prevent me from teaching a good course. I therefore hesitated to believe thata “good” textbook would affect my teaching.I had to admit, however, that not all was copacetic in the organic classroom. When my department hired anotherorganic chemist, I handed over second-semester organic to him with relief. I had consistently had a “crisis of faith”in the midst of the second-semester course, struggling to get students to recognize the similarity between reactions inseparate chapters, wondering about the relevance of several topics, and grappling with the content in the sectionstreating biological molecules. Toward the end of the second semester, I found that the course simply was notenjoyable to teach. Consequently, I suspected that a better way to present the material to students had to exist.Joel’s arguments for a book structured around mechanism types, as opposed to functional groups, came with twotypes of evidence. First, Joel had done quantitative studies that supported his proposals. Second, he had credibility asa teacher who actively considered students’ needs. During our first meeting, as well as the many discussions we hadlater, I found Joel’s insights as an instructor consistent with my own, to the point that when his position challengedmine, I felt I had to seriously consider his comments.Fortunately, Joel and I met at a good time. One of my professional goals is to avoid becoming a fossilized professor.I wanted to shake things up and was willing to make a change. The organic class was ripe for a pedagogicalrevolution.The initial draft of Joel’s book was so different from anything I had seen that its sheer novelty fascinated me, and Iwas eager to try it. I suggested that I class-test the book and offer feedback. The first year’s trial was bumpy forseveral reasons. By the second semester, though, his pedagogical revolution had clearly changed how my studentslooked at organic chemistry—and in a good way.What were those changes? For one thing, the experience revealed that several of my assumptions about the coursehad been false. For example, I would have denied with my dying breath that I had expected my students tomemorize organic chemistry. Yet that first year, experiences I had with students showed that, in some ways, Iclearlyhadexpected them to rely on memorization.For all of us, students and instructor, the organization of the material led to a better experience. In the secondsemester, the progression from anions to cations and then free radicals created a semester that started withchallenging, but doable, material, and concluded with material that students mastered readily. Each chapter’s focuson reactions that were similar, without the “noise” from topics such as nomenclature and spectroscopy, was a majorimprovement.Finally, students asked me the best questions I had ever encountered. Those were questions that I had never heardfrom other students, questions that reflected a strong understanding of organic chemistry—and questions thatfrequently stumped me. I often admitted, “I’ll have to get back to you on that one.”As teachers, we often discuss how students construct their learning from their experiences. What we discuss lessoften is that we construct our teaching from our experiences. Our goal in writing this’s Guideis toimprove your experience when you begin your own pedagogical revolution.Steve PruettJefferson Community and Technical College

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(!3;2$)&&%1%.3!"/43 Several features setOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismsapart from traditional chemistry texts. %$ $ Yes, a simple review of the table of contents will tell you that. No, we cannot ignore the elephant in the room. Thatsignificant difference elicits strong and, often, emotional responses from people who examine the book. (“Gasp! Butwe’ve always taught organic chemistry by functional groups!”)# $ $ Although all organic chemistry textbooks emphasize kinetics and thermodynamics in the context of substitution andelimination reactions, those topics often fade into the background in later chapters. This textbook consistentlydiscusses the reversibility or irreversibility of reaction steps, using bond energies and charge stability as the basis forqualitative evaluation. Those deceptively easy concepts do help students understand what occurs in reactions. &!!" $' Chapter 7 introduces the elementary steps that students will see in practically all mechanisms in later chapters. Toour knowledge, this chapter is unique to this book. The bad news is that you must incorporate it into the first-semester material, and it may seem to weight the division of material toward the first semester. The good news, andthe reward for spending time with this chapter, is that it liberates you to discuss any organic mechanism with yourstudents. Once they recognize the common elementary steps, most organic mechanisms are accessible to them. $In many sections, the author has supplied simplifications that allow students to remove “noise” from the signal weare trying to send. For example, in describing organolithium, Grignard, and hydride reagents, he relegates thecations and aluminum and boron to the role of spectators, and shows simple carbanions and hydride anions as thereactants. That simplification allows students to see and understand the more reactive portion of the reagents andignore ions and atoms that, at this level of presentation, can be readily omitted.Another thoughtful treatment of pedagogical issues includes segregation of nomenclature. All the nomenclaturetopics are contained in five interchapters (Interchapters A, B, C, E, and F) spread throughout the textbook. Thatapproach allows you to incorporate the material when and how you choose. For example, some instructors cover allthe nomenclature material in the first semester—a benefit to those students who take only one semester of organic.Other instructors require students to basically learn nomenclature on their own, without devoting classroom time toit. The material is essentially paradigmatic, and students learn it easily. With this next edition of Joel’s textbook,nomenclature is spread out into more interchapters, making it easier for students to learn it on their own.Cliff and Steve initially opposed that approach to nomenclature. Their rationale was that, as in a language class,students should be exposed to concepts one at a time; also, nomenclature was an “easy” part of each chapter.However, learning nomenclature is analogous to learning to conjugate verbs, and students simply need examples andexercises. There really is not anything to teach, except rules. They found that having students master that on theirown, and testing them on quizzes or on a single exam at the end of the course, was at least as effective as thetraditional approach. The organization of the nomenclature, based on functional group and similarities in rules,makes learning organic chemistry nomenclature easy for students. Moreover, we are happy not to have to spend timeon the topic.A further example is the segregation of biological topics at the ends of certain chapters. Textbooks traditionallyinclude chapters on carbohydrates and proteins, and often chapters on nucleic acids and lipids. However, Joel hascollected informal data indicating that most instructors do not get to those chapters in a normal course. Cliff is onesuch instructor. Though he has a passion for carbohydrates and synthesizing carbohydrate-based materials, enoughtime is never available to effectively incorporate that into undergraduate organic chemistry. In addition, in ourexperience, much of the material in such chapters does not belong in an organic chemistry course. For example, inmy former textbooks, much of the protein chemistry and nucleic acid chemistry restated what students learn inbiology courses.

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(!3;2).3()2 For each chapter and interchapter in the textbook, you will find a chapter in the’s Guidethat contains allor most of the following sections:•%!$20highlights differences between the author’s presentation and what you may be familiarwith in other textbooks.•/--%.32"7%#3)/.briefly outlines the material in the chapter, with suggestions for presentingconcepts. The section also describes classroom activities you can incorporate into your classroom andoffers other ways to describe specific concepts that may help your students grasp ideas more easily.•34$%.32;%120%#3)5%2contains examples of issues that students often wrestle with. The sectionalso may include commentary from Joel or other instructors about a particular topic in the chapter.•%2/41#%2&/1.2314#3/12describes resources that may help you teach the material, such assources of homework and exam questions, laboratory experiments, and classroom demonstrations. Thesection also includes suggested clicker questions available on wwnorton.com/instructors.The introduction that follows this preface briefly discusses pedagogical issues relevant to organic chemistry. Theend of the guide includes a list of general resources for instructors and sample syllabi from instructors teaching withJoel’s textbook (Joel’s syllabus is included as well). The course can be organized in many ways, and those resourcesoffer suggestions. Finally, the guide includes a table that correlates problems from the Second Edition with those inthe First Edition.We hope that you will find useful information in this guide that will help you create a successful organic chemistryexperience for your students. We welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions.

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)2#422)/./&%$!'/')#!,224%2This introduction discusses six issues that you may wish to consider as you design your course. Most issues arestated here as dichotomies—contradictory statements about our teaching goals and practices. Their purpose is toencourage you to step away from the course’s specific content and consider the overarching challenges thatinstructors and students face.6!.37/43/+./6%5%173().'"43;$,)+%7/43/,%!1.2/-%3().'As an instructor, you determine the content of your course. That may seem obvious, yet some instructors feelcompelled to teach every topic presented in a textbook.Textbooks have to be able to work for a variety of users; they are not a consensus of what needs to be taught. As aresult, chemistry textbooks generally contain more material than you can reasonably present. You have to use yourjudgment and experience to decide what your students need to know.For example, although Steve remembers the sonorous name of the Chichibabin reaction and the significance of theFischer proof of the structure of glucose, he does not lament the passing of either from the pages of organictextbooks. The information has simply not been useful to him. In contrast, because he used a Sandmeyer reaction inan undergraduate research project and knows the significance of diazotization in synthesizing the dyes used inCrayola crayons, his students will always learn about diazonium ions. Likewise, because Cliff spent most of hiscareer attaching lipids and peptides to carbohydrates, he tests students in Organic Chemistry II heavily on acetal andhemiacetal chemistry (and their mechanisms). Michelle always spends extra time on enolate chemistry since thosereactions fit well with how she likes to test students on both mechanisms and synthetic design.We have found thatOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismsallows for easy editing of the material. Eachchapter includes several reactions that proceed by similar mechanisms. We treat many of those chapters as surveysof a reaction type and can easily choose which reactions we expect our students to learn. You will find that approachparticularly useful when navigating Chapters 7, 10, 12, and 15.Furthermore, chapters can be rearranged to accommodate your preference as an instructor. Even though Joel’stextbook is written based on similarities in mechanisms, rather than functional groups, that organization still allowsyou the freedom to move chapters around. For example, Cliff covers Chapter 15 between Chapters 3 and 4 of hisfirst-semester course, to introduce infrared spectroscopy before students use it in lab. He also prefers to coverconjugation and aromaticity (Chapter 14) in his second-semester course, as an introduction to aromatic substitutionreactions (Chapter 22). Michelle uses both spectroscopy chapters (Chapters 15 and 16) in her laboratory sequenceonly and moves Chapter 14 to the second semester directly before Chapter 22.In general, most instructors follow the textbook as it was intended. Different opinions occur in regard to whatcontent should be included in the first and second semesters of organic chemistry. Aside from small adjustments,most instructors will spend the first half of the semester covering the fundamental concepts in Chapters 1–7. Afterthat, most instructors will spend the rest of the first semester covering substitution, elimination, and additionreactions. From there, with not much time left in the semester, instructors may choose to introduce synthesis(Chapter 13) and/or instrumentation (Chapters 15 and 16). Either could be included in the first semester or saved forthe second, being that both become more relevant in the second-semester course. You can find sample syllabi in theback of this guide.6!.37/43/4.$%123!.$3()22/;-'/).'3/,)%3/7/4One axiom of good teaching is “KISS: keep it super simple.” Implementing KISS requires us to cut out certaindetails that muddy the picture. Consider the existence of pentavalent carbon: although the isolation of pentavalentcarbon is intriguing, we spend the whole year getting students to recognize that carbon can have only four bonds.Consequently, in our minds, pentavalent carbon has no place in a presentation to undergraduates.As an instructor, you have to decide what details to omit and which to include.Joel has made a serious attempt at KISS inOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms. One example,mentioned in the Preface, is his description of organolithium, Grignard, and hydride reagents. He relegates the

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cations and aluminum and boron to the role of spectators, and he shows simple carbanions and hydride anions as thereactants. That simplification allows students to see and understand the more reactive portion of the reagents andignore ions and atoms that, at this level of presentation, can be readily omitted. The textbook also has sections inwhich Joel briefly mentions aspects of a reaction mechanism but concludes that the specifics are unknown or beyondthe scope of the course—an excellent use of KISS.Recognizing that some topics are presented in artificial contexts also helps. The classical presentation of nuclearmagnetic resonance (NMR) is one example. In practice, chemists rarely run an NMR spectrum of a pure sample toobtain spectra similar to what our students see. In addition, chemists rarely use such a spectrum to determine thestructure of an unknown compound.Similarly, the synthesis problems students undertake fail to reflect the actual practice of organic synthesis. Syntheticchemists begin with an inexpensive, readily available starting material that can serve as a basis for the targetmolecule; few start with a compound with hydrocarbons or another molecule with four carbons or fewer.Recognizing those artificial aspects of the course can help you improve your presentations. For example, indiscussing NMR, we always point out the solvent peaks present in NMR spectra and explain to students how, inpractice, we learn to ignore them. We are glad that most spectra inOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismscontain solvent peaks and that, in the section on13C NMR, Joel labels and discusses the solvent peak. For synthesis,we always discuss briefly the motivations for organic synthesis—primarily economic ones—so students have aperspective on the significance of synthesis. With this new edition of the textbook, that topic becomes more relevantwith the inclusion of green chemistry topics in Chapter 13. Such topics go beyond the scope of inexpensive reagentsand solvents, such as less toxic and safer materials, atom economy, and increased yield./,%#4,!1/1")3!,3(%/17)223!3%/&3(%!13"433(!30!2295!,%.#%"/.$3(%/17)22/42%&4,Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismsgives a fairly detailed description of molecular orbital (MO) theory.Certainly, MO theory’s significance in chemical research cannot be overstated, and the course includes topics thatbenefit greatly from MO theory, such as the Diels–Alder reaction and discussions of aromatic systems.At the same time, valence bond theory continues to be the basis for teaching organic chemistry. Although Lewis dotstructures and resonance contributors have their limitations, they are effective means of representing organicstructures. Graduate-level texts continue to use them to explain reactivity and mechanisms.Joel has designedOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismsto allow you to include as much or as little MOtheory as you want. A separate interchapter (Interchapter D), for example, describes MO theory in elementary steps.In the Diels–Alder chapter (Chapter 24), the MO discussion is at the end of the chapter and may be included oromitted as you choose.5%17/1'!.)#-/,%#4,%(!2!3,%!233(1%%.!-%2!.234$%.321%!,,7-!+%$/6)3(*423/.%You have to decide what dialect of organic chemistry your students will learn. Organic chemistry comes withserious linguistic issues. Is the active ingredient in vinegar acetic acid or ethanoic acid? Do welders use ethyne oracetylene? How many dicarboxylic acids should students be able to name?You have to decide which “trivial” names are important for your students to learn. Again, that is a function of yourexperience and is not a topic that any two instructors will agree on completely.Fortunately, the nomenclature sections inOrganic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanismsare comprehensive inhow they treat nomenclature and include trivial names for compounds.%#/'.)8%3()2-/,%#4,%//$%3-%$1!6)3).!6!73(!36),,#/.&42%7/4Organic chemistry is the science of multiple representations. A methyl group alone can be represented as CH3,H3C, Me, or a single line in a line structure. Benzene can be represented by three ring structures with a hexagon(two with double bonds and one with a circle), by the letters Ph, or by the Greek letter. Acetic acid appears inthree ways in its condensed formula in general chemistry and organic chemistry texts: HC2H3O2, CH3COOH, andCH3CO2H.

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Given the possible Lewis dot structures, line formulas, condensed formulas, Newman projections, and dash–wedgestructures that students may encounter, we obviously expect them to interpret many representations.As a result, organic chemistry’s vocabulary and orthography (the written representation of language) can bechallenging. Two approaches can help students with that challenge: first, we can be explicit about therepresentations we use; second, we can ask students to “translate” from one representation to another. I findOrganicChemistry: Principles and Mechanismsto be excellent at explaining representations, presenting them from differentviews, and asking students to translate.1'!.)##(%-)232#/4.3#!1"/.!3/-26)3('1%!301%#)2)/."43!1%3%11)",%"//++%%0%12The rule of correctly balanced chemical equations seems to go out the window when we teach organic chemistry.The fact is, we focus on the organic substrate and often ignore organic products of no interest and inorganic speciesthat are produced.Our journal entries are not entirely clear, either. In reaction sequences, we, as experts, know which species arereagents, which are solvents, and which are catalysts. Do we communicate explicit rules for identification? Andwhat about those reactions in which we show no solvent? How do we explain those? More important,dowe explainthem?In his first chapter on synthesis (Chapter 13), Joel takes time to explain synthetic notation and how it differs from areaction mechanism. He distinguishes between the reagent and reaction conditions, and he notes that inorganicproducts are often ignored. He takes time to be explicit about the details that we often forget to explain to students.Let that example be your guide when you introduce students to reaction schemes versus reaction mechanisms. Thatapproach becomes one of the key components of students’ success.

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Chapter 1 |Atomic and Molecular Structure| 1"842/)'3*41+)91'6!869)896+This first chapter introduces organic chemistry and begins an organic-centered review of relevant information fromgeneralchemistry.Chapter1reviewsatomicstructure,electronconfigurations,covalentandionicbonds,electronegativity, bond dipoles, bond energy, bond length, formal charge, and oxidation numbers. The chaptersummarizes the stepwise approach to drawing Lewis dot structures and then introduces a method for quicklygenerating Lewis dot structures for organic molecules. The chapter also includes a lengthy discussion of resonancestructures, including visual clues that allow students to identify when resonance structures will exist for a speciesand an introduction to curved arrow notation. The chapter concludes with new topics for students, including thevarious representations of molecules (Lewis dot structures, condensed formulas, and line drawings) and a survey offunctional groups.!#The temptation is always to shortchange the “review” chapters because so much new information is waiting forstudents in later chapters. No matter how strong your students are from their general chemistry experience, someparts should not be skipped. In several places, Karty is setting up the rest of the semester by combining concepts orpresenting them in particular ways, or going deeper than you might expect for an early chapter. For example,Section 1.9 presents formal charges from a molecular approach (which differs from the mathematical formula–basedapproach often used in general chemistry). In addition, Karty uses energy diagrams during his discussion ofresonance theory (Section 1.10) and uses energy to justify stability (and then have students predict stability) in waysthat most general chemistry courses do not. He leads from there directly into electron-pushing arrows (Section 1.11)and integrates them with his discussion on formal charges. The use of both energy diagrams (qualitative orquantitative) and curved arrow notation is vital to this text."!&!"%.'876-'3/).+2/786<%.<'6(43842/)!869)896+'3*6493*!8'8+1+)864343,/-96'8/437The first three sections of the chapter define organic chemistry, describe carbon’s unique properties, and reviewatomic theory, including wave functions and electron configurations. Even here, in the first few sections, the text isusing complexstructures(Figure1-2,royalpurple,for example) and branchingsystemsto helpstudentsimmediately become comfortable with larger molecules. ".+4:'1+3843*43*3+6-<'3*43*+3-8.Section 1.4 discusses covalent bonds. It gives students an overview of bond length, strength, and energy and thetypes of bonds that occur in organic chemistry. The table of bond energies (Table 1-2) is worth noting because thetext will use those values in discussing bond energy as a driving force (e.g., Section 7.8). The textbook generallyprovides bond energy values in the discussion; however, you may wish to send students to Table 1-2 to confirm thevalues or to use them in assignments. +;/748!869)896+7'3*8.+)8+891+Section 1.5 summarizes the typical five-step process for drawing Lewis dot structures that students learn in generalchemistry. A quick review of that process is a useful way to move students into the next section. !86'8+-/+7,46!9))+776';/3-+;/748!869)896+79/)01<This section is the first place where students often need to start working hard because they are applying what theyhave learned to new situations. Students are tempted to try to memorize the information presented in Table 1-4,which summarizes the numbers of bonds and lone pairs for H, C, N, O, X (where X = F, Cl, Br, or I), and Ne atoms

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Chapter 1 |Atomic and Molecular Structure| 2with no formal charge. I always advise my students to use that table as a tool to augment the five-step process(Section 1.5) and tell them that although they should not memorize the table, they will end up knowing it by heartthrough simple practice.This section, and Table 1-4 in particular, helps students make the transition from the general chemistryapproach of counting valence electrons and creating a structure to the faster method of creating a structure based onthe number of bond and lone pairs expected for each first-row atom. That transition is not always presentedexplicitly in organic chemistry textbooks, and students find it useful. 1+)8643+-'8/:/8<41'64:'1+3843*7'3*43*/541+7Section 1.7 introduces polar covalent bonds and electrostatic potential diagrams; however, net dipoles are notdiscussed until Section 2.4. Some instructors may expect those two topics to be treated together, but this chapter isfocused on individual bonds (not geometry). This chapter has enough to cover without introducing geometry, and itallows a greater focus on bonds, formal charges, and electron movement. Net dipoles are deferred until thediscussion of intermolecular forces in Chapter 2. 43/)43*7Section 1.8 defines ionic bonds, provides guidelines for identifying ionic compounds, and describes polyatomicanions and cations, noting that most polyatomic cations contain a nitrogen atom.77/-3/3-1+)86437848427/341+)91+7462'1.'6-+Section 1.9 provides a simple method to calculate formal charges and does so without presenting it in a symbolicmathematical formula. The calculation is still there, and students work it out in Your Turn 1.8, but it is calculated asthe valence electrons of the atom in the molecule (lone pairs and half-bonding pairs) versus the protons of that atom.In my experience, students are used to some variation of a mathematical presentation, such as “formal charge =valence electrons in the uncharged atom – (lone pairs of the atom in the molecule +bonding pairs).” Studentsmay initially be concerned that they are not “using the formula,” but they quickly adapt to the commonsenseapproach of looking at valence electrons of the atomin the molecular settingversus the protons of that atom.+743'3)+".+46<Section 1.10 provides six observations about resonance contributors, with examples, that students need to know.Those observations introduce students to how we interpret resonance contributors. The section does not comparestructures with negative charges on atoms of different electronegativities; that topic appears in Sections 6.7 and 6.8.Although this section introduces the concept of equivalent/inequivalentresonance contributors (major/minorcontributors), the idea is developed more fully later.!86'8+-/+7,46!9))+776';/3-11+743'3)+!869)896+7Section 1.11 summarizes the situations in which resonance contributors are possible: lone pairs adjacent tobonds,positive charges (or lacking an octet) adjacent tobonds or lone pairs, and aromatic structures. Those are importantvisual clues that students can use to determine whether resonance contributors are possible for a chemical species.The second aspect of this section is the introduction of curved arrow notation for drawing electron flow. To startusing curved arrow notation at this point is extremely worthwhile. It is a natural way to indicate electron movement,it makes resonance forms easier for students to understand, and every bit of practice put into curved arrows now willpay off handsomely in later chapters.!.468.'3*48'8/437Section 1.12 compares condensed formulas, Lewis structures, and line drawings. That discussion explains tostudents how to translate one representation into another. Table 1-5 summarizes the types of formal charges studentswill see. Each results from the change of a lone pair to a shared pair (or vice versa) except the formation of

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Chapter 1 |Atomic and Molecular Structure| 3carbocations. That information, which expands on the information in Table 1-4 in Section 1.6, allows students toassess structures and provide the appropriate charges or lone pairs without calculating formal charge.You may want to include examples with heteroatoms on the left end of the molecule and show that Hs attachedto those generally do not follow the atom. Examples:Ethylene glycolHOCH2CH2OH is preferable to OHCH2CH2OH.GlycineH2NCH2COOH is preferable to NH2CH2COOH.If you use discovery learning in class, you can give students a table similar to the one below and have them fillin the empty cells, using the first line of entries as a guide. In general, the line structures are the most challenging.Molecular FormulaStructural FormulaCondensed FormulaLine DrawingC2H6OCH3CH2OHCH3CH2CH2CH2NH23:+6:/+;4,6-'3/)425493*793)8/43'164957Section 1.13 introduces 17 functional groups (Table 1-6), as well as some comments about differentiating functionalgroups. You may wish to assess the list and modify it. The list is, as described, an overview and is notcomprehensive. For example, sulfides and reactive carboxylic acid derivatives are absent. Even so, it is a usefultable to start with, and I have found it worthwhile to hand out the table in class as a starting point of groups thatstudents should be able to identify by the first exam.Identifying functional groups can be a stumbling block for students, who often interpret some complexfunctional groups as combinations of multiple simple ones. An ester, for example, can appear to be a ketone and anether. In a similar vein, acetals and hemiacetals are often the hardest groups for students to identify because of theirsimilarities to ethers and alcohols. An aryl ring can appear to be three alkene groups. Using real-world molecules,and identifying groups with the help of some table (this one or one you produce), is good practice for this chapter.The text helpfully does not includealkaneas a functional group. Rather, the term indicates a molecule with nofunctional groups present. 3 3864*9)8/43 84 648+/37 '6(4.<*6'8+7 '3* 9)1+/) )/*7 93*'2+38'1 9/1*/3-14)07'3*93)8/43'164957Sections with the heading “The Organic Chemistry of Biomolecules” appear throughout the book, and Section 1.14

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Chapter 1 |Atomic and Molecular Structure| 4is the first of those. The sections serve several purposes.For instructors, placing that information at the ends of chapters throughout the textbook gives them the optionof covering the information they wish to include. Informal surveys of instructors indicate that, historically, mostorganic chemistry instructors minimize the coverage of biomolecules in their courses. (Doing so is understandablebecause that information usually appears in chapters at the end of the textbook.)For students, the sections offer access to information they may need. For example, in its materials documentingthe changes in the Medical College Admissions Test in 2015, the Association of American Medical Collegesdetailed an expectation that students learn certain aspects of biochemistry in their organic chemistry courses. Otherstandardized exams, such as those of the American Chemical Society, have similar expectations.For both students and instructors, these sections present an opportunity to apply the concepts presented in thechapter in the context of biomolecules. In Chapter 1, for example, students practice identifying functional groups(presented in Section 1.13) in proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids.!"#"!=!"$!The text emphasizes how important it is for students to start using curved arrow notation and line structures startingwith this chapter. Having two new concepts appear in the first chapter has helped my students build good studyhabits during the first week of classes. These new concepts often convince students to start studying right away!Pushing these new concepts so that they start using curved arrow notation as part of their determination of resonancestructures (rather than something they draw in later as an afterthought) has overwhelmingly helped student outcomesin my course. If they start “thinking arrows now,” using arrows to help them figure out what is happening, they dobetter in the course overall.Apart from their first exposure to arrows, students in my course have been most challenged by taking a neutralstructure and providing resonance structures that result in charges on the molecule. It is difficult for them to takesomething that looks complete and “happy” and convert it to a form that appears incorrect to them (with formalcharges on two atoms). This sometimes leads students to struggle with distinguishing simply-foreign-looking-but-correct structures from ones that are actually incorrect. Typical mistakes involve carbon with 5 or more bonds oroxygen with 10 electrons. We need to work through a number of examples of neutral molecules before all mystudents are able to trust their judgements.!#!Pharmaceuticals are a rich source of molecules for questions that require students to identity functional groups.Although you can create your own molecules, students—particularly prepharmacy and premed students—willprobably be more interested in pharmaceuticals. You can browseThe Merck IndexorChemical and EngineeringNewsfor examples. The structures are generally available quickly on the Internet through an image search. In thepast, students have brought me large collections of the informational sheets that accompany pharmaceuticals, and Ihave created exam questions from those sheets.You can also find examples at the American Chemical Society’s “Molecule of the Week” archive by going tohttp://www.acs.org and clicking “What molecule am I?” under “Molecule of the Week.”Sometimes I find myself looking for molecules with specific functional groups for students to practice. Theexamples below represent a few interesting molecules and a list of the functional groups that they contain.MoleculeFunctional GroupsAtorvastatin (Lipitor)Amide, amine, fluorine, hydroxy groups, aromatic rings, carboxylic acidLovastatin (Mevacor)Esters, hydroxy group, alkenesZingerone (vanillylacetone)Ketone, hydroxy group (phenol), ether, aromatic ringAlbuterolHydroxy groups (including phenol), amine, aromatic ringAspartame (NutraSweet)Carboxylic acid, amine, amide, ester, aromatic ring-DamasconeKetones, alkenesVanillinHydroxy group (phenol), ether, aldehyde, aromatic ring

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Chapter 1 |Atomic and Molecular Structure| 5!9--+78+*1/)0+69+78/437The following clicker questions have been selected from the Chapter 1 Clicker Question PowerPoints available onwwnorton.com/instructors. More questions for each chapter are available at the website.!! "# # !!"!" "$“The connectivity of a particular molecule is shown below. Assuming that no atoms have a formal charge, howmany double bonds are there in its completed Lewis structure?”That problem asks students to apply Lewis dot rules quickly to a large (and imposing) molecule. The task is not thatdifficult once they consider that carbon needs to have four bonds, and it lets them see how approachable a difficult-looking problem can be with a few simple steps.! !! " “What is the formal charge on the oxygen in the following compound?”That problem forces students to “think outside the box” for a little bit because the formal charge on the oxygen is+1. That was often considered unusual in structures from general chemistry, but the situation is not unusual inorganic chemistry. $“Which is not an acceptable resonance form of the boxed compound? (Choose 1–4)” and “Why is this form notacceptable? (Choose 5–8).”That problem not only asks which resonance form is wrong but also delves deeper into why it is incorrect. Thequestion and the follow-up question can be useful to students because sometimes they simply feel that a structure“looks wrong,” but they have no idea why.

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Interchapter A |Nomenclature: The Basic System for Naming Simple Organic Compounds| 6.,%-#+!230% (%!1)#612%,&.0!,)-'),/+%0'!-)#.,/.3-$1 +*!-%1!+.!+*!-%1)20.!+*!-%16#+.!+*!-%1!-$2(%01The textbook covers nomenclature in separate interchapter sections rather than within the chapters. This section isplaced right after Chapter 1 and introduces the IUPAC system as well as simple functional groups on alkanes.Students need to learn that material during the first part of the first semester because they will encounter alkanes andcycloalkanes in Chapter 4 in the context of conformation isomerism. Students will encounter haloalkanes (alkylhalides) as reactants in nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions in Chapter 8.Why does the text cover nomenclature in separate sections? Joel Karty explained that organization in his blog post“On Nomenclature” (posted October 16, 2012, at teachthemechanism.com). One reason is that it helps studentsfocus as they learn. A second benefit is that separating nomenclature from the main chapters better enables studentsto see how the various nomenclature rules are related. Yet a third benefit comes when students review for an exam,especially a cumulative final exam. Doing so is much easier and more straightforward when the nomenclature rulesare all collected together and organized logically.(%%%$&.0612%,!2)#.,%-#+!230% --20.$3#2).-2.2(%612%,This sectionsets up the reasoning behind the IUPAC system, which empowers students by letting them know thatthey can take an IUPAC name and use it to work out a compound’s structure once they know a few basic rules.+*!-%1!-$3"12)232%$+*!-%1This sectionintroduces the root words for alkanes (taking it to 10 carbons, Table A-1) and the concept ofsubstituents.!+.!+*!-%1!-$)20.!+*!-%1 ..210%&)5%1!-$.#!2.03,"%01This sectionintroduces simple substituents (halogen and nitro groups) and then introduces naming substitutedalkanes. Starting by using locator numbers and prefixes with halogens or nitroalkanes has been easier for me thanstarting with alkyl groups because alkyl groups add the complexity of locating the longest carbon chain.+*6+3"12)23%-21 0!-#(%$+*!-%1!-$3"12)232%$0!-#(%$+*!-%1This sectionbrings alkyl substituents into play, from simple straight-chain substituents to substituted branchedsubstituents. This section deals with all substituted branched systems by using IUPAC nomenclature, not commonnames (such as isopropyl), which Section A.7 deals with. If you intend students to use only common names in theirbranching, I advise dealing with that in class or in a handout. 6#+)#+*!-%1!-$6#+)#+*6+0.3/1This sectiondeals with cyclic alkanes, from three to eight carbons, as well as the rules surrounding when the cyclicis the root versus the substituent. Substituted rings, including ones with halogens or nitro groups, also are discussed.Now is a good time to introduce the idea that five-, six-, and seven-membered rings are favorable configurations forcarbon. 2(%01!-$+*.560.3/1This sectionintroduces –OR groups and the different ways that they can be named. Although including those groupsnow might seem unusual, this topic offers another example of substituents that do not change the suffix of the name.

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Interchapter A |Nomenclature: The Basic System for Naming Simple Organic Compounds| 7 0)4)!+!,%1.0.,,.-!,%1The information on IUPAC nomenclature is fairly straightforward, and instructors will want students to learn mostof the information. However, instructors will differ on which trivial (or common) names they wish students to learn.The list of names is extensive, and you may want to tell students that they can skip certain trivial names. You mayalso want to add some.For example, I want students to use the common names for different propyl and butyl groups, especiallybecause thet-butyl will be so useful synthetically, but I do not ask them to learn the names of the pentyl groups. Ifyou choose to edit, giving students a small handout of common names that they are responsible for can be useful.7Many instructors approach these interchapters as something that students should work through on their own.Overall, I have been surprised at how easily students master the material with minimal input from the instructor. Ialso recall occasions when students, having read and practiced the application of the relatively recent changes inIUPAC rules, knew more than I did about certain rules. I do recommend that you allow students the opportunity toask questions about nomenclature during the course, and find a way (through quizzes or tests) to hold themaccountable for the material to keep them honest in their independent work.How you assess students’ knowledge is up to you: a quiz for each nomenclature section, a page on an exameach semester, or the like. My colleague, for example, incorporates nomenclature into exam questions. Instead ofgiving students the structure of a starting material for a reaction, he supplies the IUPAC name.If you have a small class, consider the following exercise: I give students a deliberately challenging quiz on aseries of molecules, each of which the students have to name. While they complete the quiz, I put the molecules onthe board. After the students turn in the quiz, I have them go to the board and name a single molecule. Then,working in groups, the students evaluate the names and recommend changes that will correct errors. I provide noinput, but I do tell them what the score on the quiz would be according to what is on the board. We continue untilthe class comes up with names that earn a perfect score. Students have responded favorably to that approach,especially when I warn them that this level of difficulty is fair game for the exam but then surprise them with fullcredit to the class on that quiz after their hard work!William B. Jensen of the University of Cincinnati has written many short, historical pieces that deal with organicnomenclature and symbolism. Here is a selection of his articles:•“The Origins of the Qualifiers Iso-, Neo-, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary in Organic Nomenclature.”J.Chem. Educ.2012,89, 953–954. doi:10.1021/ed101192y.•“Why Is ‘R’ Used to SymbolizeHydrocarbon Substituents?”J.Chem.Educ.2010,87,360–361.doi:10.1021/ed800139p.•“The Origins of the Ortho-, Meta-, and Para- Prefixes in Chemical Nomenclature.”J. Chem. Educ.2006,83, 356. doi:10.1021/ed083p356.•“The Origin of Vinyl.”J. Chem. Educ.2004,81, 464. doi:10.1021/ed081p464.Most textbooks don’t address the pronunciation of names of organic compounds. Most spellings are created fromwords used in spoken language. The names of organic compounds are exceptions because these names are createdfirst as written words through sets of rules. Consequently, instead of a spoken word’s being represented by letters, aspoken word is generated from letters. That approach leads to ambiguities and variations. Some examples includethe following:•The multiple pronunciations of the functional groupamide.•The British pronunciations ofmethyland other terms. For examples, view the videos by the University ofSurrey on nucleophilic substitution, available on YouTube.•The debate over the pronunciation of thecindecyl, documented by K. M. Reese inChem. Eng. News1987,65, 64. doi:10.1021/cen-v065n022.p064.

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