PCAT Organic Chemistry Review Study Guide

This video tutorial focuses on the organic chemistry section of the PCAT. It provides a nice review of the first two semesters of organic chemistry.

Here is a list of topics:
1. Nomenclature and Functional Groups
2. Hybridization, Bond Angle, and Molecular Geometry
3. Sigma and Pi Bonds, Bond Strength vs Length
4. Acids and Bases Periodic Trend - pKa
5. Resonance Structures - Curve Arrow Notation
6. Newman Projections of Butane - Gauche, Anti, Staggered, Eclipse
7. Conformations of Cyclohexane - Chair, Half Chair, Twist Boat
8. Torsional vs Steric Strain and 1,3 Diaxial Interactions
9. Potential Energy Diagrams - Kinetics and Rate Law
10. Catalyst, Activation Energy, Rate Determining Step
11. Initiation, Propagation, and Termination
12. Bromination vs Chlorination Selective vs Nonselective Reactions
13. Stereochemistry - Enantiomers, Diastereomers, and Meso Compounds - R / S Configuration, Chirality and Optical Activity
14. Electrophilic Addition Reactions of Alkenes and Alkynes
15. Acid Catalyzed Hydration, Hydroboration Oxidation, Oxymercuration Demercuration, and Ozonolysis
16. SN2, SN1, E1, and E2 reaction mechanism
17. Polar protic vs aprotic solvents - Nucleophiles and Leaving Groups
18. Inversion of Configuration vs Racemic Mixture
19. Oxidation and Reduction Reaction of Alcohols
20. Grignard & Gilman Reagents, DIBAH and Organolithium reagents
21. conjugate addition - 1,3 butadiene - Kinetic vs Thermodynamic Product
22. Diels Alder Reaction - Examples and Practice Problems
23. Acid Catalyzed Cleavage of Ethers and Epoxides
24. Nucleophilic Addition of Carbonyl Compounds - Aldehydes and Ketones
25. Enol and Enolate Reactions - Alpha Hydrogen Substitution
26. Wittig Reaction, HVZ Reaction, Haloform Reaction
27. Iodoform Test - Methyl Ketones
28. Tollen's Reagent Test for Aldehydes
29. Imine vs Enamine - Primary and Secondary Amines
30. Gabriel Synthesis Reaction
31. Hoffman vs Curtius Rearrangement Reactions
32. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Review
33. Benzene Reactions - Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions
34. Nitration, Sulfonation, Chlorination, Bromination, Friedel Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reactions
35. Side Chain Reactions of Benzene
36. Benzyne Intermediate vs Meisenheimer Complex
37. Aldol Condensation Reaction
38. Claisen Ester Reaction
39. Acetoacetic and Malonic ester Reaction Mechanism
40. Michael Reaction
41. Robinson Annulation Reaction Mechanism