Course Objectives for Final Exam

* The final exam will concentrate on the parts of Chapters 9 and 10 covered in the lectures.  You should also know, generally, the reactions and concepts that have been studied throughout the course.

* There will be reactions which will involve nucleophilic substitution, elimination, addition to alekenes, hydrogenation, hydration, turning poor leaving groups into good ones, and any general reaction we have studied.

* For the reactions in Chapter 9, understand the stereochemistry of the additions, whether syn or anti and how this effects the stereochemistry of the products, including cyclic compounds with axial and equatorial bonds.

* Understand the nature of the cyclic bromonium and mercuronium ions and what kind of reactions they can undergoand the regiochemistry of these reactions.

* Understand the stereochemistry of the epoxidation reaction and the reactions these oxirane rings can undergo.

* Know the two methods of hydroxylation of double bonds and their relative stereochemistry.

* Be able to write the products of ozonolysis of alkenes and to determine the structure of the original alkene from which certain ozonolysis products were obtained.

* Know the reactions of alkynes and especially the stereochemistry of hydrogenation and the regiochemistry of other addition reactions.

* Know how to form alkynes from dihalides.

* Understand the formation and reactions of radicals, their regio- and stereochemistry, relative stabilities,chain reactions and polymerization.

* There will be a short synthesis question, so be able to put these reactions together in a sequence which will lead from a given starting material to a given product.

* Be able to follow a sequence of reactions, knowing the starting material, reagents for each reaction, and be able to write the products for each step.