Time: 2pm
Date: 28/09/15
Meeting agenda: Applications on MO Theory

Location: 18A/B TV lounge

It was the recess week. Yet, it wasn’t quite like the recess week as we were still very much drowning in schoolwork. We met up this fateful day to work on the applications of what we had learnt before the recess week, MO Theory. Prior to this, we had some interesting inspirations and coupled with the bad haze, we decided to work on explaining an Oxygen detector. Perhaps, there could come a time when we would be struggling to keep ourselves from suffocating at the rate the haze was worsening.

Fortunately, when we went online, we found relevant real life machinery based on our extensive searching. We tried hard to figure the mechanism upon which the machinery worked on. We had disagreements and was nearly thrown in heated arguments. Fortunately, MO Theory bonded us together and we worked as a team whereby we successfully figured out how. Thumbs up to the team!

Time: 5pm
Date: 7/10/15
Meeting agenda: Nucleophilic reactions TBL group assignment

Location: 18A/B TV lounge, Ang Kheng’s room

These questions were not easy. We met up at the 18A/B TV lounge had long debates on every question, and especially so for question 3, where all the reactions appeared to be feasible yet we had to choose which one was going to be favoured over all the others (to produce the major product). In addition, while we had an idea of what mechanisms were involved in questions 1 and 2, we were stumped when it came to drawing them out, so we decided to go for dinner first.

However, when we got back to the TV lounge after dinner, we were shocked to find that some other people were already using it! Now that we had lost our meeting location, we decided to move to Ang Kheng’s room to finish discussing the questions and finalise our answers. Fortunately, Ang Kheng had his USD52 modelling set lying around, so to settle the debate, we used it to make some of the molecules to visualise exactly what was happening during each reaction. We realised that it was actually more useful than drawing the structures out on paper and debating over them, so we decided to make a short video answer in addition to our written answers, which you can see in our assignment submission for the week.

Time: 9pm
Date: 17/09/15
Meeting agenda: TBL group question 5

We were very enlightened about the structures of the organic compounds using our newly bought USD52 modeling toys! They seemed so delicate but yet so strong that it actually pulled through our twisting and pulling.. We were extremely confused with the definitions of the terms in the process of determining if a compound was a diastereomer. However, we got past the technicalities by putting our heads together. 🙂
After we were enlightened by the models, the next step was to present the answers. We initially thought that we should put chemdraw into action but decided that the previous mind-blowing information had drawn all of us of our energy. So we decided not to deal with the technical difficulties of chemdraw but instead put them on traditional paper and pen.
Presenting to you, our answers!