Lecture	Concepts
8/31/2009
9/2/2009	some gen chem stuff: acidity, reaction energetics molecular structure and shape (VSEPR) fundamental bonding and hybridization
9/4/2009	bonding: electrostatics and quantum mechanics, atomic and hybrid orbitals
9/9/2009	molecular orbitals: antibonding, nonbonding, bonding: Lewis and resonance structures.
9/11/2009	functional groups, some organic reactions and synthesis
9/14/2009	organic synthesis, weak intermolecular reactions, boiling points and solubilities
9/16/2009	organic syntheis, infrared spectroscopy
9/18/2009	acids and bases, pKas, factors affecting acid strength
9/21/2009	acids and bases, predicting the most acidic hydrogen, the role of bond energies in acidity
9/23/2009	Lewis acids, alkanes: synthesis, properties and isomers.
9/25/2009	nomenclature, index of hydrogen deficiency, conformational analysis of ethane and butane,
9/29/2009	cycloalkanes and their conformational analysis, C-13 nmr
9/30/2009
10/2/2009
10/5/2009
10/7/2009
10/9/2009
10/12/2009
10/14/2009
10/16/2009
10/19/2009
10/21/2009
10/23/2009
10/26/2009
10/28/2009
10/30/2009
11/2/2009
11/4/2009
11/6/2009
11/9/2009
11/11/2009
11/13/2009
11/16/2009
11/18/2009
11/20/2009
11/23/2009
11/30/2009
12/2/2009
12/4/2009
12/7/2009
12/9/2009
12/11/2009