Course Information

• Bruice Website |5th Edition | 4th Edition (free)
• Bruice Errata |5th Edition | 4th Edition
• Organic Chemistry Links

Reference and Review

• Hints for Drawing Organic Molecules
• Functional Group Table
• Organic Nomenclature
• Chem 21 Reactions and Naming to know for Chem 22
• Spectroscopy Tables - NMR and IR
• pK_a Values Table
  

Handouts and Other Links, Sorted by Topic

Ch 10 - Alcohols, Ethers, Amines, Organometallics

• Summary of Substitution and Elimination Reactions (from Chem 21)

Ch 14 & 15 - Aromatic Compounds. Reactions of Benzene and Substituted Benzenes

• Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Reaction Overview
• Modifications to Existing Groups on Benzene
• Relative Reactivities of Substituted Benzenes (data)
• Effect of Substituents on S_EAr Reactions - Summary Table
• Mechanism of S_EAr with Directing Effects

Ch 16, 17 & 18 - Carbonyl Compounds

• Interconversions Between Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
• Addition of Grignard Reagents to Carbonyls
• Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones with Nitrogen and Oxygen Nucleophiles
• Reactions of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds
• Naming Compounds with More Than One Functional Group

Ch 19 - Redox Reactions

• Reduction of Organic Functional Groups

Ch 29 - Pericyclic Reactions

• Molecular Orbital Diagrams
• Pericyclic Reactions, with links to animations

Ch 21 & 22 - Bioorganic Compounds

• Biomolecules
• Monosaccharide Structures
• Carbohydrate Examples
• The Fischer Proof
• Amino Acid Structures
• Amino Acid pK_a Values
• 3D Biomolecules - Jmol and PDB Files
• Lipid Examples
• Steroid Examples
• Nucleic Acids