Chemistry 51A Organic Chemistry

Overview

Contents:
Introduction - Excerpt-Bond Polarity, Formal Charge, Lewis Structures-Resonance Structures, Skeletal Structures, Bond Length - Orbital Models of Structure and Bonding - Acids and Bases - Acid Strength and Equilibria - Lewis Acids, Lewis Bases, and Organic Reaction Mechanisms - Organic - Compounds and Functional Groups - Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Amines-Carbonyl Compounds, Intermolecular Forces-Introduction to Alkanes-Nomenclature of Alkanes, Conformations of Ethane

Conformations of Butane and Cycloalkanes - Introduction to Stereochemistry - Assigning Tetrahedral Stereogenic Centers - Meso Compounds - Properties of Chiral Compounds - Introduction to Understanding Organic Reactions - Energy Diagrams, Transition States, and Reaction Rates - Energetics of Reactions - Introduction to Alkyl Halides and Nuceophilic Substitution - Mechanistic and Stereochemical Aspects of SN2 Reactions - Properties of Electrophiles, Leaving Groups, and Nucleophiles - Elimination Reactions. Introduction to E2 Reactions - Regiochemical and Stereochemical Course of E2 Reactions