Organic Chemistry

Crash Course
- What Is Organic Chemistry?
- The Basics of Organic Nomenclature
- More Organic Nomenclature: Heteroatom Functional Groups
- 3D Structure and Bonding
- IR Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
- Alkanes
- Cyclohexanes
- Stereochemistry
- More Stereochemical Relationships
- Polarity, Resonance, and Electron Pushing
- Acidity
- Nucleophiles and Electrophiles
- Intro to Reaction Mechanisms
- E/Z Alkenes, Electrophilic Addition, & Carbocations
- Thermodynamics and Energy Diagrams
- Alkene Addition Reactions
- Alkene Redox Reactions
- Alkyne Reactions & Tautomerization
- Radical Reactions & Hammond's Postulate
- Intro to Substitution Reactions
- Substitution Reactions - SN1 and SN2 Mechanisms
- E1 and E2 Reactions
- Determining SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 Reactions
- Alcohols, Ethers, and Epoxides
- Synthesis and Column Chromatography
- How to Identify Molecules - Proton NMR
- An Overview of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Organometallic Reagents and Carbanions
- Aldehyde and Ketone Reactions - Hydrates, Acetals, & Imines
- Carboxylic Acids
- Carboxylic Acid Derivatives & Hydrolysis Reactions
- Carboxylic Acid Derivatives - Interconversion & Organometallics
- Chemoselectivity and Protecting Groups
- Retrosynthesis and Liquid-Liquid Extraction
- Polymer Chemistry
- Aromaticity, Hückel's Rule, and Chemical Equivalence in NMR
- Intro to Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
- More EAS - Electron Donating and Withdrawing Groups
- More EAS & Benzylic Reactions
- Synthesis, Distillation, & Recrystallization
- Conjugation & UV-Vis Spectroscopy
- The Diels-Alder & Other Pericyclic Reactions
- Enols and Enolates - Reactivity, Halogenation, and Alkylation
- The Aldol and Claisen Reactions
- Crossed Aldol Reactions, Enones, and Conjugate Addition
- Amines
- Diazonium Salts & Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution
- Biochemical Building Blocks & Fischer and Haworth Projections
- Biological Polymers
- Medicinal Chemistry and Penicillin Total Synthesis