Organic Chemistry I & II

Crown ethers as phase transfer catalysts

I know the top is cut off. I am showing acid cleavage of ethers. Non aromatic cleavage will replace all c-O bonds with C-Cl or Br bonds.

Infrared, NMR and Mass Spec of ethers, epoxides and sulfides

Formation of epoxides and reactions in basic and acidic media

Sulfide reactions and transformations with oxidizing agents

Reactions in which alcohols can be transformed into esters.

A brief examination of thiol nomenclature and properties

Infrared, HNMR, c13 NMR and Mass Spectrometry of alcohols and thiols

Nomenclature and physical properties of ethers, epoxides and sulfides

Etherification of alcohols by acid method and base methods. Shout out to my boy Williamson who got his name on an SN2 reaction!

The chemical shifts of hydrogens

Other kinds of aromatic compounds.

A dive into what makes hydrocarbons hydrocarbons.

Reactions of benzenes and benzyl positions.

Allylic radicals have energetic advantages of non-conjugated alkenes.

An introduction to aromatic compounds and why they have special properties.

IR and NMR spectroscopy of dienes.

Dienes are quite versatile and have advantages in synthetic planning.

Diene rearrangements give access to new structures.

How reduction of double bonds happens using hydrogen and a catalyst.

Our first functional groups that are different than just alkanes. We talk about the physical properties of alkyl halides (chlorine, bromine and iodine) as well as alcohols (OH).

The basic mechanism of addition reactions to carbon-carbon double bonds.

A review of sp hybridization in organic bonding.

A new method for making carbon-carbon bonds. Any carbon-carbon bond formation is a "holy grail" reaction in synthetic chemistry, so the Diels-Alder reaction is great. And it makes a ring!

Conjugated dienes experience resonance, and as such, they produce some interesting products. We can control the regiochemistry of these reactions by varying the conditions of reaction.