Chapter 12 - Alcohols

Daily
To-Do

Flipped
Lectures

In-Class
Worksheets

Step 1

• Read Klein Sections 12.1, 12.2,  13.1 – 13.3
  Nomenclature, Physical Properties, Acidity of ROH
• Watch flipped lecture
• Work through SkillBuilders 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
• Practice Alcohol/Ether Nomenclature:
  practice worksheet and answer key
  
  

Nomenclature of Alcohols and Ethers, and Part 1 of Alcohols
35 minutes, skeleton notes pages 12-1 to 12-3

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Step 2

• Read Klein Sections 12.3 – 12.6
  Preparation of Alcohols
• Watch flipped lecture
• Work through SkillBuilders 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
• Grignard/Hydride homework (submit to Gradescope)
  
  

Alcohol Synthesis
38 minutes, skeleton notes pages 12-4 to 12-7

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Step 3

• Read Klein 12.9, 12.10, 12.13
  Reactions of ROH (Dehydration, Oxidation, Tosylation)
  & Synthesis Strategies
• Watch flipped lecture
• Work through SkillBuilders 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9
  
  

Reactions of alcohols
45 minutes, skeleton notes pages 12-8 to 12-11

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Supplemental Materials

• Interesting Alcohols

• Cool demo: potassium + water = KOH and BOOM! (e.g., an explosive way to make hydroxide from water, or an alkoxide from an alcohol)
  
  
• Interesting phenols, including CBD and THC

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