Organic Chemistry I & II

A discussion of how the alcohol functional group is generated.

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

A Review of the Alcohol Functional Group

The mechanism of double bond formation

Free radical polymerization of alkenes.

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

Sulfide reactions and transformations with oxidizing agents

Nomenclature and physical properties of amines

An alkyne can be activated to react with electrophiles.

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.

The acidity of enols of esters, aldehydes, and ketones

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

Other kinds of aromatic compounds.

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

The problems with Electrophilic aromatic substitution of amines, and workarounds of those problems.

IR and NMR spectroscopy of alkenes

Everything you wanted to know about alkynes but were afraid to ask.

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

The physical properties of alkenes

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.

A discussion of carbonyls reacting with primary and secondary amines

The carbocation intermediate can cause challenges in addition reactions.

A discussion of the molecular orbitals in dienes. It's all about wavefunctions! Bring this up at Thanksgiving dinner and watch your family try and bludgeon you with turkey legs.

Formation of epoxides and reactions in basic and acidic media

Crown ethers as phase transfer catalysts