…comfortable with reading the primary literature of organic chemistry and creating reaction schemes based on literature examples. Expect weekly remote meetings and to interface with project management software (training will…
Read more…to read IR spectra more intuitively, I’m including two extra examples below. ] Bonus Track: The “Ball And Spring” Model of Bond Vibration, Illustrated With Two Examples In the article…
Read moreDescription: Ketones and other carbonyl compounds containing a hydrogen adjacent to the carbonyl are in equilibrium with a constitutional isomer called an enol. The rest of this page is available…
Read more…who wants to be the guy writing a blog like that, I ask? Not me, folks. Since the goal of this blog is complete world domination, I think I’m going…
Read moreThe Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction Is Awesome Exam preparation tip: Instructors often include questions on intramolecular versions of familiar reactions on exams, since they involve no new concepts but might “look…
Read more6 UV-Vis Spectroscopy Practice Problems In the past few posts we’ve covered some of the key points of UV-Vis spectroscopy. Now comes the key question: how do we apply it?…
Read more…for exam questions where two meso compounds are suggestively drawn as mirror images. They are not enantiomers. They are the same molecule, since they are superimposable! Table of Contents The…
Read more…Again, examining the pi molecular orbitals will give us some useful clues. Notably, in cyclobutadiene, the highest-occupied molecular orbitals are unpaired electrons of equal energy. Table of Contents Building Up…
Read more…1. The Commonly Used “Cyclopentadiene” Can’t Be Bought From Chemical Suppliers. Why? Let’s talk about cyclopentadiene, a commonly used diene for Diels-Alder reactions that, by the way, comes up all…
Read more…Newman Projections (And Converting Newman To Line Diagrams) How To Draw The Enantiomer Of A Chiral Molecule Enantiomers vs Diastereomers vs The Same? Two Methods For Solving Problems Types of…
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