If you are having difficulty with textbook and supply costs associated with this (or any) course, here are some resources for you:

• Contact the financial aid office (whether or not you are on aid). They have loans and resources for connecting students with programs on campus that might be able to help alleviate these costs.
• DukeLIFE has resources available for students with demonstrated high financial need. To apply for a long-term loan of required course materials, please go here. Please note that program resources are limited.
• Duke Libraries offers textbook rentals through the Top Textbook Program, where you can rent out a textbook for 3 hours at a time.

List of free and other options for accessing answers to textbook problems

• Free access: I have put a bunch of copies of the SGSM (and the Text) on reserve in the Library.

• Free access: The SGSM is also available in various rooms in French Science Center, where the TAs and I hold student hours: Rooms 1213, 1218, and 1243 FFSC. so that all may access them.

  <aside> 🙏 Please leave these books in the rooms so that anyone may benefit.

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• Duke has a number of assistance options available at

  https://dukelife.duke.edu/academic-support/course-materials-assistance/

• Used, cheaper physical copies are available through the bookstore or online sources.

• The instructor may have additional copies available to those in financial need. Please let me know.

• It can also be purchased from the publisher (click “Study Extras” tab and choose Study Guide and Solutions Manual)

  https://store.macmillanlearning.com/us/product/Organic-Chemistry/p/1319188427

For getting a refund:

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Organic Chemistry I | Chem 201DL Syllabus Spring 2025 | Jim Parise | Duke University