Fundamental Organic Chemistry I
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Welcome to Fundamental Organic Chemistry I! Here you will find bonus content and exercises to cement your knowledge.
- 1: Intro to Chemical Structure and Resonance
- Get started on how organic chemists draw and visualize organic molecules!
- 1.1: Drawing Chemical Structures
- 1.2: Electron-Dot Model of Bonding - Lewis Structures
- 1.3: VSPER Theory- The Effect of Lone Pairs
- 1.4: Electronegativity and Bond Polarity (Review)
- 1.5: Resonance
- 1.6: Molecular Orbitals and Covalent Bonding
- 1.7: Hybrid Orbitals- Bonding in Complex Molecules and Practice Problems
- 2: Alkanes
- Basics on the simplest organic molecules, plus processes for naming them and a review of thermodynamics
- 2.1: Chemical Properties of Alkanes
- 2.2: Physical Properties of Alkanes
- 2.3: Nomenclature of Alkanes
- 2.4: Nomenclature of Cycloalkanes
- 2.5: Practice - Alkane Nomenclature
- 2.6: Ethane Conformers
- 2.7: Gibbs Free Energy (review)
- 2.8: Enthalpy Changes in Reactions
- 2.9: Entropy Changes in Chemical Reactions
- 2.10: Activation Energy and Rate
- 3: Acids, Bases, and Arrow Pushing
- Get started on how to push arrows for reactions by studying acids and bases
- 3.1: Acids and Bases - The Brønsted-Lowry Definition
- 3.2: Acids and Bases - The Lewis Definition
- 3.3: Classification of Reagents as Electrophiles and Nucleophiles. Acids and Bases
- 3.4: Using Curved Arrows in Polar Reaction Mechanisms
- 3.5: Acid Strength and \(pK_{a}\)
- 3.6: A Summary of the Factors that Determine Acid Strength
- 3.7: Organic Acids and Bases
- 5: Addition Reactions of Alkenes
- 5.1: Electrophilic Addition of Hydrogen Halides
- 5.2: Addition of Strong Brønsted Acids
- 5.3: Electrophilic Addition of Halogens to Alkenes
- 5.4: Hydration of Alkenes
- 5.5: Formation of alcohols from alkenes
- 5.6: Catalytic Hydrogenation
- 5.7: Hydration- Oxymercuration-Demercuration
- 5.8: Hydration- Hydroboration-Oxidation
- 5.9: Oxidative Cleavage of Alkenes
- 5.10: Free Radicals
- 5.11: Addition of Radicals to Alkenes
- 5.12: Anti-Markovnikov Product Formation
- 5.13: Homolytic Cleavage and Bond Dissociation Energies
- 5.14: Polymerization of Alkenes
- 9: The Chemistry of Alkyl Halides
- 9.1: An Overview of Nucleophilic Substitution
- 9.2: Elimination Reactions
- 9.3: Rate Laws in Nucleophilic Substitution
- 9.4: Reaction Rates and Rate Laws
- 9.5: The SN2 Reaction
- 9.6: E2 Elimination
- 9.7: SN1 Reaction
- 9.8: E1 Eliminations
- 9.9: Comparison of SN2 and SN1
- 9.10: Comparing E1 and E2
- 9.11: Determining SN2, SN¬1, E2 or E1
- 9.12: Carbenes
- 9.13: Cyclopropane Synthesis
- 10: The Chemistry of Alcohols and Thiols
- 10.1: Dehydration Reactions of Alcohols
- 10.2: Reactions of Alcohols with Hydrohalic Acids
- 10.3: Converting an Alcohol to a Sulfonate Ester
- 10.4: Oxidation and Reduction in Organic Chemistry
- 10.5: Oxidation of Alcohols
- 10.6: The Formation of Carboxylic Acids
- 10.7: Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD)
- 10.8: Dehydrogenases
- 10.9: Prochirality
- 10.10: Thiols and Sulfides
- 10.11: Nucleophilicity of Sulfur Compounds
- 10.12: Redox Reactions of Thiols and Disulfides
- 10.13: An Introduction to Organic Synthesis