…To Use Curved Arrows To Interchange Resonance Forms Hybrid Orbitals and Hybridization P.S. New! Check out this free 3-page handout on solving common boiling point exam problems! MOC_Boiling_Point_Handout (PDF) …
Read more…reactivity. Sure, there are lots of examples of molecules where the charge actually *does* represent the electron density. But then again, there are a lot of counter examples too –…
Read more…HO(–) are called anions (I always got this straight through remembering that the “N” in “Anion” stood for “Negative”). The attractive forces between oppositely charged ions is described by Coulomb’s…
Read more…in the rest for the examples below. Click to Flip If that went well, you could try filling in the formal charges for all of the examples in this table….
Read moreYou may recall from Gen chem (and no doubt your first week of o-chem as well), that orbitals on carbon come in two flavors: s and p. s orbitals should…
Read more…reactions with examples, mechanisms, and applications. Table of Contents The Cope Rearrangement: Example And Mechanism The Cope Rearrangement Is An Equilibrium Cope-ing With Ring Strain The Oxy-Cope Rearrangement The Claisen…
Read more…saved for later. See post on How To Calculate Formal Charge 4. Example #1: Lone Pair → Bond The first example shows the simplified example of a lone pair on…
Read moreMy one-sentence advice to those about to write an exam: Number your carbons. Now go write your exam. If you need reasons, here they are. There’s two. First reason: if…
Read more…nucleophiles you’ll meet in organic chemistry, but let’s focus on the simple examples for now.] Example: Let’s look at an example we’re familiar with: hydroxide ion. When hydroxide ion donates…
Read more…that can donate electrons. The classic example is carbocation stability, which increases as the number of adjacent carbon atoms increases. Another example is π donation, where neighboring atoms with lone…
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