General Final Exam information
Grade Distributions (Revised!)
Basic Exam Tips
Specific Review Topics
Feel comfortable with identifying functional groups.
How could one easily use IR spectroscopy to determine if they had 1-hexanol or dibutyl ether? How would the IR spectrums differ?
Why are some IR peaks stronger in intensity than others?
You need to know the Carbon-13 NMR table handed out in class.
NMR active versus NMR inactive (e.g., carbon-13 versus Carbon 12)
Be able to calculate unsaturation number (as you did in the NMR lab)
Be familiar with DEPT NMR
what is the base peak? parent peak? how does one determine the exact mass of a compound? how does a mass spectrometer work? how does the sample get fragmented? what does m/z mean?
Colorimetric analysis "Beer’s law"
- understand the relationship of absorbance versus concentration
- what was the standard calibration line (Beer's Law Plot) used for?
UV-Spectroscopy Analysis - we never did this in class so put this very low on your study list!
Know the terminology (e.g., eluant, elution, solute, eluants, mobile phase, stationary phase, etc.
From a big picture perspective, how do gas chromatography, column chromatography and thin layer chromatography differ? how are they alike?
Know the equation I gave in my lecture notes
The above "specific review topics" should help you out immensely in reviewing for the final exam. These above topics are what came to mind when I reflected back on my lectures. HOWEVER, please do not limit your review to the above mentioned. I'm certain there are other "things" I will find to reflect on. Conclusion/Study Strategy: immediately review those specific topics I mentioned above. Then review home work problems. Then go over all my lecture notes. Finally, review the assigned readings.