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Organic Chem Basics

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What Organic Chemistry is, the General Chemistry it builds on, and how to prepare for the first semester.

Start here overview

1Introduction to Organic
2General chemistry basics
3Preparing for Organic 1

Organic 1

Structure, bonding, stereochemistry and the first reactions: substitution, elimination and addition. In teaching order.

Organic 1 overview

1Hybridization
2Bond-line structures
3Functional groups
4Delocalization
5Acids & bases
6Alkane names
7Conformations
8Chairs & boats
9Stereochemistry
10Stereochemistry & regiochemistry
11SN & E reactions
12Alkene additions
13Alkyne chemistry
14Radical reactions

Organic 2

Alcohols through amines: aromaticity, carbonyl chemistry and more advanced mechanistic reasoning.

Organic 2 overview

1Preparing for Organic 2
2Alcohols
3Ethers & epoxides
4Thiols & sulfides
5Conjugation
6Aromaticity
7Aromatic substitution
8Aldehydes & ketones
9Carboxylic acids
10Enols & enolates
11Amines
12Organometallics
13Biomolecules
14Polymers

Mechanism

How to read and predict a mechanism: the clues, the arrows, the key patterns, and a video for every named reaction.

Mechanism overview

1Introduction to mechanism
2Mechanism clues
3Pushing arrows
4Key mechanisms
5Mechanism videos

Spectroscopy

Working out structure from IR, mass spectrometry, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, with practice on unknowns.

Spectroscopy overview

1Working out molecular structure
2Infrared
3Mass spectrometry
4¹H NMR
5¹³C NMR
6Mixed practice

Practice & reference

42 interactive apps and quizzes, a glossary with pronunciations, and the interactive periodic table.

Practice & reference overview

1Apps & quizzes
2Definitions & pronunciations
3Interactive periodic table

Home Organic 2Carboxylic acids

Organic 2 Preparing for Organic 2 Alcohols Ethers & epoxides Thiols & sulfides Conjugation Aromaticity Aromatic substitution Aldehydes & ketones Carboxylic acids Enols & enolates Amines Organometallics Biomolecules Polymers

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Carboxylic acids

Carboxylic acids & derivatives: synthesis and chemistry.

Carboxylic acids overview

Carboxylic acids notes, part 1

Carboxylic acids notes, part 2

Watch the mechanism

Fischer esterificationAcid and alcohol form an ester reversibly.

SaponificationBase hydrolyzes an ester to a carboxylate.

Amide hydrolysis (acid)Acid hydrolyzes an amide to a carboxylic acid.

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