Peer-Led Team Learning: Organic Chemistry, 2/E
Jack A Kampmeier
Pratibha Varma-Nelson
Donald K Wedegaertner
Carl C. Wamser, Portland State University

ISBN-10: 0131855107
ISBN-13: 9780131855106

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2006
Format: Paper; 300 pp
Published: 07/08/2005

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This second edition is designed as a student workbook, to be used as the central focus of activity in a PLTL Workshop in organic chemistry. It is not a drill book, nor is it a self-contained guided inquiry book. As with the Workshops themselves, this book is intended to be a companion to a textbook in a lecture course. The Workshop problems are challenging; they represent our sense of what we want our students to know, understand and be able to do. Students need to prepare for these Workshop problems by studying the text, the lectures and by working the end-of-chapter problems ahead of Workshop time. 

Workshop 1        Structure:  Functional Groups Page 2

 

Workshop 2        Structure:  Molecular Geometry and Bonding  Page 6

 

Workshop 3        Structure and Properties Page 14

 

Workshop 4        Structure and Properties:  Acids and Bases Page 23

 

Workshop 5        Reaction Mechanisms Page 31

 

Workshop 6        Stereochemistry of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes Page 38

 

Workshop 7        Alkenes:  Electrophilic Addition Mechanism: Carbocations Page 43

 

Workshop 8        Alkenes:  Reactions Page 50

 

Workshop 9        Free Radical Reactions: Thermochemistry Page 58

 

Workshop 10      Organic Synthesis Page 65

 

Workshop 11      Chirality Page 70

 

Workshop 12      Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Page 77

 

Workshop 13      Elimination Reactions Page 84

 

Workshop 14      Alkyl Halides and Alcohols:  Synthesis Page 91

 

Workshop 15      Epoxides and Ethers Page 99

 

Workshop 16      Conjugated Systems Page 107

 

REVIEW Page 116

 

Workshop 17      Aromaticity Page 138

 

Workshop 18      Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution Page 144

 

Workshop 19      Pericyclic Reactions Page 153

 

Workshop 20      Aldehydes and Ketones Page 165

 

Workshop 21      Enols and Enolate Ions Page 173

 

Workshop 22      Ester and  b—Dicarbonyl Enolates Page 181

 

Workshop 23      Carbohydrates Page 187

 

Workshop 24      Phenols Page 195

 

Workshop 25      Carboxylic Acids Page 202

 

Workshop 26      Carboxylic Acid Derivatives:  Nucleophilic Acyl Substitutions Page 209

 

Workshop 27      Lipids Page 217

 

Workshop 28      Amines Page 226

 

Workshop 29      Amino Acids and Peptides Page 232

 

Workshop 30      Metabolism Page 241

 

REVIEW Page 247

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