This exam is designed for the end of the first semester of a standard two-semester organic chemistry sequence – available in two forms.

Topics from which items are drawn include:

• Acids and Bases
• Alkanes, Cyclo-alkanes
• Alkenes & Alkynes
• Boiling points
• Degrees of unsaturation
• Dipole Moment
• Formal charge
• Functional group identification
• Gauche/Eclipse interactions
• Heat of hydrogenation
• Hybridization
• IUPAC nomenclature
• Polymers
• Radicals
• Resonance structures
• Spectroscopy (MS, ¹H NMR, IR)
• Stereochemistry (R & S; chiral molecules; enantiomeric & diastereomeric relationships)
• Substitution and Elimination chemistry