In order to get an extra credit assignment, you must e-mail to Dr. Wamser requesting one. Mail to WamserC@pdx.edu and put Extra Credit in the Subject: line.
Then you'll get a message that looks like the following (except it will have the name of an interesting molecule inserted at ######## ).
Every assignment will be a different molecule - there's no danger of runnning out of interesting biologically relevant molecules.
Chemistry 331, Fall 1996 -- Extra Credit Assignments by E-Mail
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Your molecule is ########
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Provide the following information about this compound:
1) other names
2) the molecular formula
3) the number of carbons that are sp3, sp2 and sp hybridized
4) functional groups present
5) at least one important biological feature or function of this compound
Also indicate your sources of information.
E-mail your responses to Dr. Wamser at WamserC@pdx.edu
It is expected that you do your own work on these assignments and that you e-mail them from your own e-mail account.
The value of your first extra credit assignment may be up to 5 points, depending on the quality of your responses. These are real points, as on exams and quizzes, but applied after grade distributions are established to assist in deciding borderline cases. Note that 5 points amounts to about 1% of the total points available overall.
You may request an additional extra credit assignment when you submit your responses. Subsequent extra credit assignments will be worth 4 points for the second one, 3 points for the next, etc. (Maximum extra credit, 15 points)