How John Pulled Up His Organic Chemistry Exam Grades
…learning process, period. How much time per week did you devote to studying? Well, I went from 44% on an exam to 90% on an exam. I studied about 2…
Read more…learning process, period. How much time per week did you devote to studying? Well, I went from 44% on an exam to 90% on an exam. I studied about 2…
Read more…vinyl cations but only in strong acids. Aqueous acids are not even close. (H3O+ =-1.7, HBr = -9, HCl = -7). I would not be surprised if the strongest acids…
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Read more…Stabilize Free Radicals Bond Dissociation Energies = Homolytic Cleavage In Summary: Free Radicals Allylic Bromination Elimination Reactions (2): The Zaitsev Rule Alkene Stability Free Radicals Practice Quizzes (MOC Membership required)…
Read more…it, we should control it. Here’s another example. Try drawing the product of these two reactions: Click to Flip Final example. Draw the product! Click to Flip These are examples…
Read more…hydroboration of alkynes, and it often appears in class notes and exams, in practice it’s more common to use dialkylboranes (R2BH) for hydroboration of alkynes. In a dialkylborane, two of…
Read more…can occur if they will result in a more stable carbocation intermediate. H-X will also add to alkynes (See: Addition of HX to alkynes) and dienes (See: 1,2- and 1,4-…
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Read more…In the last post on allylic bromination, the examples used were actually quite simple. For example, if you take cyclopentene and treat with NBS and light (hv) in carbon tetrachloride…
Read more…teacher was talking about, and to ask relevant questions. 2. Exam Preparation About a week or two before an exam, I would take the list of “suggested book problems” that…
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