Videos
These videos aim to provide short, effective teaching of specific problem solving skills in organic chemistry.
Drawing Structures | ||
Line Drawings | “Hidden” Hydrogens | Exercise: Condensed Formula (1) |
Exercise: Condensed Formula (2) |
Bond Rotations | ||
The “Steering Wheel” Analogy | Exercise 1 | Exercise 2 |
Exercise 3 | Exercise 4 | Exercise 5 |
Rearrangements | ||
Introduction to Rearrangements | Carbocation Stability (1) | Carbocation Stability (2) |
Hydride Shifts | Alkyl Shifts | |
Substitution Elimination Decision | ||
SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (1) Overview | SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (2) Substrate | SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (3) Nucleophile/base |
SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (4) Solvent | SN1/SN2/E1/E2 (5) Temperature |
Introduction to Reactivity | ||
How Formal Charge Can Mislead | Identifying reactive sites | |