Organic Chemistry I & II

The review of quantum chemistry and orbitals as the pertain to organic chemistry.

An examination of the mechanism of the Sn1 reaction.

Acidity and basicity in Organic Chemistry, including a discussion of pKa.

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

An analysis of the energetics of axial and equatorial groups in substituted cyclohexanes

How molecular formulae work in Organic Chemistry.

Kinetics of the Sn1 reaction.

A review of several different catalysts that revolutionized organic chemistry. Included are: Grubbs Catalyst Negishi Coupling Suzuki Coupling Heck Reaction Stille Coupling Wilkinson's Catalysis Ziegler-Nata reagents

An introduction into spectroscopy and what methods we use in Organic Chemistry for qualitative analysis of small molecules.

The basics of IR spectroscopy and how it is used in Organic Chemistry.

The general mechanism of EAS.

An analysis of the conformations of basic alkanes with rotation around a single bond.

How to move electrons in Organic Chemistry. The basics of mechanism.

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

The qualitative characteristics of arenes in the infrared as well as how substituted arenes behave on HNMR and C13-NMR

The chemical shifts of hydrogens

An overview of relative stereochemistry

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

How dipoles work in basic bonding. Molecular polarity is covered.

An introduction to the essentials of the Sn2 reaction, arguably the most used reaction in organic synthesis.

Reactions of benzenes and benzyl positions.

An analysis of the conformations of basic hydrocarbon rings.

An introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

An overview of absolute stereochemistry (R & S)

The only reaction we have in organic chemistry that functionalizes basic alkanes. This video talks about the mechanism of free radical halogenation.