Organic Chemistry
Mechanisms and reactions
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn organic chemistry as a small number of ideas applied repeatedly: nucleophiles and electrophiles, the substitution and elimination pathways, addition, aromatics, carbonyls and spectroscopy.
Organic chemistry is not memorisation of reactions; it is a small number of ideas about where electrons are and where they want to go, applied over and over.
100 cards. Nucleophiles and electrophiles, the four substitution and elimination pathways and what decides between them, carbocation stability and the rearrangements it causes. Then addition, aromatics and the directing effects, carbonyl chemistry from the acyl substitution order through enolates and the aldol. Then the spectroscopy that tells you what you actually made.
Every stated rule carries its reason. Markovnikov's rule is a consequence of carbocation stability rather than a law, and knowing that is what lets you predict the peroxide case without memorising it separately.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Acids” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- Nucleophiles, electrophiles and leaving groups
- SN1, SN2, E1 and E2, and what decides between them
- Addition, and why Markovnikov's rule is a consequence
- Aromatics, directing effects and carbonyl chemistry
- IR, NMR and mass spectrometry as evidence
The categories
17 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Acids
- Addition
- Aromatics
- Biomolecules
- Carbonyls
- Effects
- Foundations
- Isomerism
- Mechanisms
- Nitrogen
- Nomenclature
- Reactions
- Redox
- Spectroscopy
- Structure
- Synthesis
- Technique
What you get
Here are three of the 100 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
What is a functional group and why does it matter?
Answer
The reactive part; it determines the chemistry.
Note
The carbon skeleton sets physical properties and the group sets what the molecule does.
Question
What is hybridisation in an alkane, alkene and alkyne?
Answer
sp3, sp2 and sp.
Note
More s character means shorter, stronger bonds and greater acidity at that carbon.
Question
Why can a double bond not rotate?
Answer
The pi bond would have to break.
Note
That restriction is what makes cis and trans isomers distinct compounds.
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