This is a
list of organic chemistry topics. This page should serve as the starting point for a well-balanced understading of
organic chemistry. In fact, this page could make your expensive organic chemistry
textbook obsolete.
Chemical bonding
- Covalent bonding Lewis model[?] molecule shapes[?] bond angles[?] functional groups polar and nonpolar[?] molecules resonance structures[?]
Alkanes and cycloalkanes[?]
- Alkane conformation[?]
Alkenes
- Alkene structure[?] alkene properties[?] alkene nomenclature[?] alkene preparation[?] terpene hydrocarbons[?] alkene reactions[?]
Alkynes
Acids and bases
- Bronsted-Lowry[?] acids and bases, acid dissociation constants[?] Lewis acids and bases[?] relative strengths of acids and bases[?]
Alcohols and alkyl halides[?], diols[?], thiols[?]
Arenes and aromacicity[?]
Ethers, epoxides[?], and sulfides[?]
Aldehydes[?] and ketones
Enols[?], enolate anions[?], enamines[?]
Carboxylic acids
Carboxylic acid derivatives[?]
Ester enolates[?]
Amines
Aryl halides[?]
Aromatics, benzene, phenols, aromatic derivatives[?]
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Amino acids, peptides, proteins
Nucleic acids
Organometallic compounds
Alkene reactions[?]
Elimination reactions
Nucleophilic substitution
Beta elimination[?]
Electrophilic aromatic substitution[?]
Chirality
- Stereoisomerism chemical chirality[?] naming stereocenters[?] stereoisomer properties[?] optical activity enantiomers chirality in biology[?]
Infrared spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry[?]
Conjugated systems