CHEM 744 - Organic Spectroscopy- Spring 2008
Class Hours & Details || Exams || Grading for the Course || Text books and Supplementary materials || Course goals || Course overview || Standard Course Policies || Syllabus outline (Week by week) || Lectures || Assignments and Exams (PDF files)
Room: |
114 LADD Hall |
| Class time : | Mondays and Wednesdays: 3.00-4.50 PM |
| Office Hours: | Open . It is advised to e-mail me in advance. |
Mid-term exam |
Thursday, January 31, 2008. Time to be announced in class. |
Final Exam |
Monday, February 25, 2006, 3.00-6.00 PM |
Grading for the courses :
- Homework: 20%; Mid-term exam: 30%; Final exam: 50%
- Homework: Homework problems will be given periodically and must be turned in by the date assigned. A 10% per day grade reduction will be applied to any delayed homework.
- Grades will be assigned as following (subject to change):
- A: 87 - 100%
- B: 70 - 86%
- C: 57 – 69%
- D: 45 – 56%
- F: < 45%
Text books and Supplementary materials:
Recommended Text books (Both the text books will be in reserve in the library)
- Introduction to Spectroscopy (3rd Edition, Pavia, Lampman, Kriz), Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning, 2001
- Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds (7th Edition, Silverstein, Bassler, Morrill), Wiley, 1991.
Supplementary READING materials: (will be available in the Library).
- Organic Structure Analysis (Crews, Rodriguez, Jaspars), Oxford Press, 1998
- Interpretation of Mass Spectra (3rd or 4rd Edition, McLafferty), University Science, 1980
This course is designed to provide students the principles and practical working knowledge of spectroscopic techniques for organic structure analysis.
The first part of the course will deal with Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) where you will learn the principles about NMR, the concepts pertaining to interpretation of spectra. You will be taught on how to solve structures based on NMR.
The second part of the course will deal with infrared spectroscopy (IR), and mass spectrometry (MS). If time permits, UV-Vis spectroscopy will be covered.
Special Needs: Any student who needs special accommodations for learning or who has special needs is invited to share these concerns or requests with the instructor as soon as possible.
Academic Responsibility: Students should complete homework and examinations on their own. Any student who is found to have acted dishonestly on homework or an exam will receive 0 points for that homework or exam. A second infraction will result in an F for the course. The policy applied is that of the Code of Academic Responsibility and Conduct (http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/policy/335.htm). Any student caught cheating, or helping someone cheat, will be reported to the NDSU Honor Code Council and to the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology for punitive action, as described below. Plagiarism also constitutes as cheating in this course. Any discovered act of academic dishonesty by a student in this course will be reported to the NDSU Honor Code Council. Additionally, the incident will be reported to the Academic Ethics Committee of the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology. This Committee will recommend if a sanction should be applied to the student. It is expected that students will abide by the NDSU Honor Code for all exams and problem sets. For problem sets, students must work independently on their solutions. Students must abide by the NDSU Honor Code for the problem sets in that they are not allowed to simply copy solutions and answers from each other.
Syllabus Outline (Week by week):
Note: We will try to follow the schedule although some deviation is expected.
Week 1
Lecture 1
NMR Spectroscopy [Jan 09 ]
Week 2
Lectures 2, 3
NMR Spectroscopy [Jan 14 and 16]
Jan 21
Martin Luther king Day – University holiday. [Jan 21]
Week 3
Lecture 4
NMR spectroscopy [Jan 23]
Week 4
Lecture 5
NMR spectroscopy [Jan 28]
Lecture 6
IR spectroscopy [Jan 30]
Jan 31
EXAM - midterm
Midterm (NMR spectroscopy)
Week 5
Lecture 7
IR spectroscopy [Feb 4]
Lecture 8
Mass spectrometry [Feb 6]
Week 6
Lecture 9
Mass spectrometry [Feb 11 and 13]
Lecture 10
UV-Vis spectroscopy [Feb 13]
Feb 18
President’s Day – University Holiday [Feb 18]
Week 7
Lecture 11
Review of problems [Feb 20]
Feb 25
EXAM - Final
Comprehensive exam
Week 9-16
LAB – Chem 754
Ask Dan Warner for samples and learn the various analytical methods.
A known sample will be provided and you must characterize it using the methods learned. Once you finish the know sample characterization, an unknown sample will be given for characterization.Download course syllabus as a PDF file (will open in a new window)
Download course Lab-syllabus (Chem-754) as a PDF file (will open in a new window)