Organic Chemistry I & II

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

The Mantra of Organic Chemistry is "Negative Goes to Positive". In this video we see more of the essentials here.

Alkylation and Decarboxylation reactions using enolate chemistry.

The differences between single, double and triple bonds.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, or in this case, substitute an alcohol with a halide.

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

Infrared spectroscopy, HNMR, c13- NMR, and mass spectrometry of amines

How to name basic alkanes.

An overview of Mass Spec: How it works, and how we can elucidate structural information from Mass Spec data.

Violations of the octet rule.

A discussion of rings, multiple ring systems, and rings containing non-carbon atoms.

A discussion of NMR and how signals appear if the molecule has symmetrical elements.

The Haloform and Hell-Volhard-Zelinski reaction in detail.

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

The classification of hydrocarbons and cycloalkanes.

Lewis bonding and covalent bonding in basic alkanes.

An overview of what makes things chiral

For benzenes with multiple substituents, EAS can be a bit wonky. Here I explain how we can plan around the wonkiness. Actual scientific term!

Branched nomenclature of organic molecules.

A review of sp hybridization in organic bonding.

More wonkiness, but this time we venture beyond benzene and see how EAS works with those compounds.

An explanation of the rates of reaction in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

A discussion about diastereomers, some of which are molecules which contain more than one chiral center.

A deeper dive into the specifics of the Sn1, one of four fundamental reactions in organic chemistry.

How oxidation agents are used to transform alcohols into ketones, aldehydes and carboxylic acids