Learn, understand and practice Organic Chemistry
Topic notes for both semesters, animated mechanisms, spectroscopy walkthroughs and interactive practice, arranged in the order you’ll encounter them in class.
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What Organic Chemistry is, the General Chemistry it builds on, and how to prepare for the first semester.
3 pages · Introduction to Organic, General chemistry basics, Preparing for Organic 1Organic 1
Structure, bonding, stereochemistry and the first reactions: substitution, elimination and addition. In teaching order.
14 pages · Hybridization, Bond-line structures, Functional groups…Organic 2
Alcohols through amines: aromaticity, carbonyl chemistry and more advanced mechanistic reasoning.
14 pages · Preparing for Organic 2, Alcohols, Ethers & epoxides…Mechanism
How to read and predict a mechanism: the clues, the arrows, the key patterns, and a video for every named reaction.
5 pages · Introduction to mechanism, Mechanism clues, Pushing arrows…Spectroscopy
Working out structure from IR, mass spectrometry, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, with practice on unknowns.
6 pages · Working out molecular structure, Infrared, Mass spectrometry…Practice & reference
42 interactive apps and quizzes, a glossary with pronunciations, and the interactive periodic table.
3 pages · Apps & quizzes, Definitions & pronunciations, Interactive periodic table