CEM 351 – Fall 2026

Sections 01 – 04, 06, 08

Kevin D. Walker

Student Voices (click here):

Provides a different perspective from top students on what they did to excel in CEM 251 and helps dampen fears about CEM 251. While CEM 351 fundamentally differs in its approach, some of the same tenets shared by your student peers in CEM 251 may help here.

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Contents:

· Final Exam date Updated on: August 26, 2026

· Alternate Final Exam date  Updated on: August 26, 2026

· Textbook Purchase Updated on: August 26, 2026

Support Links January 10, 2023

Use Cengage Unlimited to access course materials including courseware (like OWLv2) or eBooks (like the Brown, Organic Chemistry Text).

Accessing OWL

· Syllabus (website, PDF) Updated on: August 26, 2026

· Exam-type + EOC Problems in the textbook (PowerPoint Slides per Chapter) January 26, 2023 (Keys online)

· Lecture Notes Updated on: September 09, 2026

· Chemistry Tutors Updated on: August 26, 2026

· Chemistry Tutor (MSU Graduate) who teaches GROUPS of Students (email) Updated on: August 26, 2026

· Blank Quizzes and Their Keys  Updated on: December 05, 2026

(Cemscores: scores online) Updated on: November 03, 2026

How to Study Orgo

· TA and Recitation Information Updated on: August 26, 2026

Special Office Hours During the week of February 20 to February 24, 2023 (Click here)

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Final Exam, date and time:

Wednesday, December 16th, 5:35-7:35 PM

Location: Room 138 Chemistry (Where we have lecture.)

Alternate Final Exam (click here for eligibility):

Tuesday, December 15, 2026 (1:30-3:30 PM)

Location: Location in the Chemistry Bldg: To Be Determined

Contact Ms. Lavrik (Chemistry Room 185) to sign up.

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Textbook and Achieve Online Homework

(Available at 12:01 AM Monday, August 31. That is, after midnight Sunday, August 30.)

By purchasing one semester of Achieve, students get 4 years of access to the Vollhardt and Schore organic chemistry ebook and e-homework sets—this bodes well for those needing a review resource for professional exams close to graduation!

All of the following are included inside Achieve:

• Animated Mechanism Tours explore the 2D and 3D structure of key reactions and allow the student to visualize each step. Each tour includes assessment questions to guide student understanding as they navigate the mechanism.  Animated Mechanism Tours are fully assignable in Achieve.
• Assignable Chemcast Videos -- All new problem-solving videos addressing the key concepts and problem types from each chapter and linked within the e-book.
• Instructor Activity Guides (IAG)--Team problems included at the end of each chapter have been reimagined as active learning activities to use in class, recitation, or problem-solving sessions. Each IAG includes worksheets (with a fully solved key), supporting iClicker slides (with key), and utilizes the WHIP problem-solving strategy from the book.
• Enhanced eBook -Includes new embedded Chemcast Videos.
• New LearningCurve This is the adaptive learning, newly aligned to Vollhardt, 8e and learning objectives
• New Learning Objectives aligned specifically to Vollhardt/Shore and tied to Achieve Insights and Reporting
• Updated Solutions Manual - link to purchase from within Vollhardt, 8e digital update course in Achieve
• New End of Chapter questions select questions added in each chapter with the digital update.

We have set up a special area on our student store website where students can purchase a discounted Achieve code for the one-semester sequence. Here is the link for that:

Discount Code:

https://store.macmillanlearning.com/us/product/Organic-Chemistry-Digital-Update/p/131941690X

Access Achieve here:

My Course - Organic Chemistry - Macmillan Learning Achieve

Contact Information for Macmillan Textbook Resources: Cara Warne from Macmillan (back to top)

Cara from Macmillan will be hosting "virtual office hours" 

Monday August 28th from 3 pm-4 pm 

Friday, September 1st from 10 am-11 am  

on Zoom https://macmillanlearning.zoom.us/j/9237623372

She can answer questions about Achieve, the various resources, and purchasing options.  If you have any questions, feel free to log on and speak with her.

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How to Get Started with WileyPLUS (click here)

Contact Wiley representative Cara Warne:

Subject Line: Walker CEM251 WPlus (click here to email)

Practice Problems by Chapter

Cemscores (view scores online)

(updated November 19, 2017)

Vollhardt PowerPoint Lectures (see PPT files here)

(updated November 20, 2017)

Recitation Problems (here)

updated March 04, 2016

Quiz Keys (here)

updated November 19, 2017

Tables for Exams (here)

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Chapter 12 Lecture Notes (click here) PowerPoint IR Addendum (helpful slides) A Generic Electron-Ionization MS (here) Interested in Concepts? Mechanisms for PBr3 and SOCl2 reactions with Alcohols (click here). Alkyne Reaction with Na, NH3(liq) (click here) Alkene Reaction Summary (click here)
Reading: How to Study Organic Chemistry (click here) Study Hints: (doc file)
Office Hours for Walker Thursday 3:00-5:00 PM; near Room 208, Chem. Bldg
Joe (email)	Kourosh (email)
TA Recitation Sections and Office Hours (PDF, webpage)
Chapter 1 Notes (PowerPoint presentation) Chapter 1 (ppt) or (PDF)  Note addendum Chapter 12 Lecture Notes (click here) PowerPoint IR Addendum (helpful slides) A Generic Electron-Ionization MS (here) Chapter 13 Lecture Notes (click here) PowerPoint
General Information: Use Peter Vollhardt and Neil Schore Organic Chemistry, Structure and Function 8^th Edition, Freeman 2022

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Alternate Exam Day for Final Exam:

Students with 3 or more final exams scheduled on the same day (click here for registrar's page).

Contact Ms. Lavrik so that you can sign the roster sheet.

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