Useful Concepts

Useful Concepts

This page contains links to information on general concepts or specific items that maybe useful for getting through your Organic Chemistry course.
The linked pages are based on those in the individual chapters.
Use your browser "FIND" option to search for keywords, e.g. "isomers"

• Concept Map
• Periodic Table
• Nomenclature Summary / Group Priority
• Intermolecular forces
• Thermodynamics and Stability
• Table of bond energies
• Oxidation and Reduction
• Index of Hydrogen Deficiency (IHD) and (π + r)
• Counting types
• Calculating Experimental Yields
• Combustion Data
• Elemental Analysis Data
• Benzene and Cyclohexane: The differences
• Pushing Electrons and Curly Arrows
• Resonance Structures: How to get them !
• Acidity and Basicity
• Structure and pK_a
• Acidity Ladder (pKa values)
• Optical Purity
• IR
• NMR (H-NMR, ¹³C-NMR)
• Isomer Types
• Deriving Isomers
• Naming E/Z or R/S stereoisomers
• Classifying Mechanisms
• Nucleophilicity vs Basicity
• Leaving Groups
• Substitution and Elimination
• Aromaticity and Resonance Energy
• Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
• Grignard Reactions
• Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
• Hyperconjugation

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