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Instructor: Daniel J. Nurco, M.Sc. (Animal Biology), Ph.D. (Ag. and Environmental Chemistry)
Instructors Office: Chemistry Building, room 175
Instructors Email: DJNurco@UCDavis.edu
Email policy: Please include Chem118A in the subject line of your emails to Dr. Nurco and the Chemistry
118A TAs. For questions requiring lengthy responses please see Dr. Nurco or a TA in person during scheduled
office hours. Generally, course administrative questions are addressed via email while questions about course
material are not answered via email.
Lecture Meeting Location: Kleiber 3
Lecture Meeting Time: 2:10 3:50 PM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during UCDs Summer
Session I, 2015.
Instructors Office Hours: Wednesdays from 5:30 6:30 PM in Chemistry 175 and for 20 minutes at the end
of each Lecture in Kleiber 3. Additional Office Hours are to be announced.
Teaching
Assistants
Email addresses
Melissa
Novy
Wan-Chih
Su
mnovy@ucdavis.edu
wcsu@ucdavis.edu
TA Office Hours
Times and Location
Student Academic Success Center Office Hours and Workshops: Please visit their website
(http://success.ucdavis.edu) to find up-to-date availability and times of their resources. They will have drop-in
tutoring available on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10-12 AM in Dutton Hall, room 2258.
Regarding Office Hours: All Chemistry 118A students are welcomed and encouraged to attend the office
hours of any 118A Teaching Assistant and Dr. Nurcos.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Thursday
8:00 - 8:15 AM
8:15 - 8:30
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:15
9:15- 9:30
9:30 - 9:45
9:45 -10:00
10:00 - 10:15
10:15- 10:30
10:30 -10:45
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:15 PM
12:15 - 12:30
12:30- 12:45
12:45- 1:00
1:00 - 1:15
1:15 - 1:30
1:30 - 1:45
1:45 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:15
2:15 - 2:30
2:30 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 3:30
3:30 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:00
4:00 - 4:15
4:15 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45
4:45- 5:00
5:00 - 5:15
5:15 -5:30
5:30 - 5:45
5:45 - 6:00
6:00 - 6:15
6:15 - 6:30
8-9:15 AM
A06 Discussion
9-10:15 AM
A01 Discussion
A02 Discussion
A04 Discussion
9:15 - 9:45 AM
post-Disc OHs
8-9:05 AM
A06 Discussion
9-10:15 AM
A01 Discussion
A02 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 AM
post-Disc OHs
10:15 - 10:45 AM
post-Disc OHs
12:10 - 1:25 PM
12:10 - 1:25 PM
A08 Discussion
A08 Discussion
1:25 - 1:55 PM
post-Disc OHs
1:25 - 1:55 PM
post-Disc OHs
9:05-10:15 AM
A04 Discussion
10:15 - 11 AM
post-Disc OHs
2:10 - 3:50 PM
Lecture in Kleiber 3
4:10 - 5:25 PM
A03 Discussion
A07 Discussion
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Dr. Nurco OHs
Kleiber 3
5:25 - 5:55 PM
post-Disc OHs
Required Course Materials: Lecture text: Peter Vollhardt & Neil Schore, "Organic Chemistry, Structure and
Function, 7th Edition" and N. Schore, "Study Guide/Solutions Manual, 7th Edition", a Chemistry 118A
Discussion Booklet (available at the UCD Bookstore for about $4.00), and Molecular Model set for Organic
Chemistry. The prentice Hall Molecular Model Set for Organic Chemistry is quite good and is available online.
The Maruzen HGS Set for Organic Chemistry is also good and is available in the UCD Bookstore and
numerous model sets are available online.
Note 1: an electronic version of the textbookan eBookis available directly from the publisher for about
1/2 the price of a new hardcopy text; go to whfreeman.com for details.
Note 2: deeply discounted bundles containing the textbook, study guide, and model set should be in stock at
the bookstore. Everything should be available individually as well.
Supplementary Materials (these are not to give you more work to do; they are to help you): Web supplements
Attendance Policy: You are expected to attend all lectures and discussions and very strongly encouraged to use
office hours and review sessions.
Suggested End-of-Chapter Problems and Material Coverage Schedule*: For practice and study from the
textbook, you do not need to hand in the answers
Notes:
1. Most (if not all) mid-Chapter Exercises should be attempted for drill purposes.
2. You are strongly advised to get a study group together and meet regularly. There is one Team Problem at the
end of every Chapter designed to help you work with Chapter concepts as a group.
3. Use the Chapter Integration Problem in each Chapter to help you prepare to do the Problems.
If a topic is not discussed in lecture or in the Discussion sessions, and no end of chapter Problems are
assigned concerning it, you can assume it will NOT appear on the exams.
Chapter in Textbook
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 11
Chapter 10
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter Title
Structure and Bonding
Structure and Reactivity
The Reactions of Alkanes
Cycloalkanes
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