Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry relates to the study of compounds containing carbon, but more specifically, compounds containing C-H bonds. It is a vast subject, a fact revealed in crude measure by the sheer size of organic chemistry textbooks and by the size of wall charts made by students trying to organize the huge number of organic reactions they study in the second semester. Educators are not unsympathetic to students trying to learn organic chemistry, the website Organic Reaction Quizzes and Summaries being a good example of this beneficence. The textbooks too are full of reaction summaries at the end of each chapter.
A class in organic chemistry, usually running one full year, will deal with the following:
- Atoms, Orbitals, and Bonds
- Organic Nomenclature and Functional Groups
- Molecular Conformations
- Physical Properties of Organic Compounds
- Acid-Base Theory
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Nucleophilic Additions to the Carbonyl Group
- Nucleophilic Substitutions on the Carbonyl Group
- Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectroscopy
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Stereochemistry
- Aliphatic Nucleophilic Substitution
- Elimination Reactions
- Electrophilic Addition to Unsaturated Carbons
- Organic Synthesis
- Conjugation and Resonance
- Aromaticity and Substitution Reactions
- alpha Substitution on Carbonyl Compounds
- Carbonyl Condensation Reactions
- Radical Reactions
- Polymer Chemistry
- Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
- Carbohydrates
- Nucleic Acids
A superb online organic chemistry textbook is available from Michigan State University; since this virtual text is interactive, it's actually a tutorial for an entire year of organic chemistry. Good books on organic chemistry can be found at Amazon.com and Google. Students should be following The Journal of Organic Chemistry published by the American Chemical Society.
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