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Organic Chem Basics
Start here

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
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Mixed practice

Put IR, MS, ¹H and ¹³C NMR together to work out unknown structures, then use spectra to follow reactions and syntheses.

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Spectroscopy practice problems
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Mixed spectroscopy practice
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Reaction products from spectroscopy
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Multistep synthesis & spectroscopy
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