Organic Chemistry I & II

The Michael Reaction and how soft and hard nuclei Phil Esposito are defined and how they react with soft and hard electropholes

Describing the Haloform and Hell-Volhard-Zelinski reactions in terms ot enolate chemistry.

It’s the Aldol but with esters! That’s rather exciting!

The acidity of enols of esters, aldehydes, and ketones

An in-depth analysis of acid catalyze and base controlled Aldol reactions

Infrared, HNMR, c13 NMR and MS of carboxylic acid derivatives

Reactions of esters and organometallic reagents

Formation of esters and hydrolysis using acids and bases

Reactions of acid chlorides and acid anhydrides are very similar, so the reactions are compared together.

The nomenclature of acid derivatives and their physical properties. We talk here about acid chlorides, acid anhydrides, esters, amides and nitriles

An explanation of the basic mechanism of addition to carboxylic acid derivatives

IR, HNMR, c13- NMR and Mass spec of carboxylic acids

Formation of carboxylic acids and reactions with carboxylic acids

Hydrolysis of nitriles and reactions of nitriles with organometallic reagents

Amide properties, acidity and reactions

Nomenclature & physical properties of Carboxylic acids

What affects acidity of alkyl carboxylic acids and aromatic carboxylic acids

The Bayer Villager oxidation of ketones and the oxidation of ketones and aldehydes with laboratory reagents

The IR, HNMR, C13 NMR and Mass Spectrometry of ketones and aldehydes

Reactions between phosphonium salts and carbonyls to generate olefins

Kinetics and equilibrium of ketones and aldehydes

A discussion of carbonyls reacting with primary and secondary amines

Mechanism of acid-catalyzed hydration, acetalyation and cyanohydrins formations

Nomenclature and physical properties of ketones and aldehydes

Reactions forming and using ketones and aldehydes from previous sections