Organic Chemistry/Book outline
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Foundational concepts of organic chemistry
- Overview of addition, elimination, substitution and rearrangement reactions
- Polar and radical reactions
- Redox reactions
- Functional groups in reactions
- Drawing reactions
- Rates and equilibria
- Gibbs free energy
- Bond dissociation energies
- Energy diagrams
- Transition states
- Carbocations
- Addition reactions
- Rearrangement reactions
- Introduction to alcohols
- Introduction to phenols
- Introduction to ethers
- Introduction to epoxides
- Introduction to aldehydes
- Introduction to ketones
- Introduction to carboxylic acid
- Introduction to carboxylic acid derivatives
- Handedness
- Enantiomers
- Stereogenic centers
- Optical activity
- Absolute and relative configurations
- Diastereomers
- Meso compounds
- R-S notational system
- Multiple chiral centers
- Chirality beyond carbon
Chemistry of various functional groups
Organic chemistry and biochemistry
Periodic table
- Valence
- Bonding:
- Electronegativity
- Hybridization
Lewis structures
- Resonance
- Formal charges
- Conjugation
- Aromaticity
Nomenclature
- Alkanes
- Cycloalkanes
- Alkenes
- Alkynes
- Haloalkanes
- Alcohols
Isomers
- Structural isomers
- Stereoisomers
- Enantiomers, R, S
- Racemates
- Conformational
- cis-trans
- E, Z
Structure and properties
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Alkynes
- Alcohols
- Haloalkanes
- Arenes
Reactions
- Alkanes (and cycloalkanes)
- (Combustion)
- Free radical halogenation
- Alkenes
- Hydrogenation
- Hydration -> oxymercuration/demercuration
- Halogenation
- Hydrohalogenation
- Hydroboration/oxidation
- Halohydrins
- Oxydation (Ozonolysis, osmylation, epoxidation/peroxidation)
- Allylic bromination
- Alkynes
- Hydrogenation
- Hydration
- Halogenation
- Hydrohalogenation
- Ozonolysis
- Alkylation
- Alcohols, haloalkanes
- Nucleophilic substitution (SN1, SN2)
- Elimination (E1, E2)
- Carbocation rearrangements
- Conjugated (1,3-) dienes
- Direct (1,2-) and conjugate (1,4-) addition
- Kinetic and thermodynamic control
- Diels-Alder reaction
- Aromatic compounds
- Hydrogenation
- Ozonolysis
- Benzylic bromination
- Benzylic oxydation
- Vinylic benzenes (styrenes)
Chirality
- Cahn-Ingold-Prelog nomenclature of chiral atoms