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"

• Acidity and Basicity
• Aromaticity and Resonance Energy
• The Hydrogen Atomic Orbitals
• Table of Bond Dissociation Energies
• The Chemical Bond
• Benzene and Cyclohexane: The differences
• Calculating Experimental Yields
• Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
• Classifying Mechanisms
• Combustion Data
• Concept Map
• Curly arrows
  • Curly arrows at the University of Aberdeen
  • Tutorial exercises on using curly arrows
• Deriving Isomers
• Drawing 2D structures
• Elemental Analysis Data
• Formal Charges
• Grignard Reactions
• Hyperconjugation
• Index of Hydrogen Deficiency (IHD) and (π + r)
• Intermolecular forces
• IR
• Isomer Types
• Leaving Groups
• Lewis Structures
• Naming E/Z or R/S stereoisomers
• NMR (H-NMR, ¹³C-NMR)
• Nomenclature Summary / Group Priority
• Nucleophilicity vs Basicity
• Optical Purity
• Oxidation and Reduction
• Periodic Table
• Physical Properties Summary
• Pushing Electrons and Curly Arrows
• Reactivity of the Different Functional Groups (Summary) or the Jmol version which may be slow to load but worth the wait.
• Reagents and Reactions: Summaries by functional groups or reaction mechanism
• Resonance Structures: How to get them!
• Structure of the Different Functional Groups (Summary)
  
• Solubility
• Spectroscopy - Structure determination an interactive exercise on solving the structure of an unknown compound using spectroscopy.
• Structure and pK_a
• Substitution and Elimination
• Substituent Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
• Symmetry in Organic Molecules
• Thermodynamics and Stability
• Valance bond theory and Hybridization
• VSEPR