Chemistry 331 - Winter 1996
Elements of Organic Chemistry I

Skills from Chapter 2 - Alkanes

• identify functional groups
• draw isomers
• know alkanes to C10
• know alkyl groups to C4
• name substituted alkanes and cycloalkanes (and haloalkanes)
• draw structures from names
• identify carbon classes (1° , 2° , 3° , 4°)
• convert line structures to detailed structures and vice versa
• use Newman diagrams to visualize 3D structures
• recognize different conformations and their relative energy
• draw good chair cyclohexanes, including substituent locations