Acid Base Reactions Are Fast
…three examples – and by the way… these are common trick questions for exams! Table Of Contents Acid-Base vs Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (SN2 reactions). Acid-Base Reaction vs Addition To A…
Read more…three examples – and by the way… these are common trick questions for exams! Table Of Contents Acid-Base vs Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (SN2 reactions). Acid-Base Reaction vs Addition To A…
Read moreHow To Draw Resonance Structures: Avoiding Common Mistakes No discussion of resonance structures would be complete without mention of how to royally screw them up. This isn’t something to feel…
Read more…worst. I’ve done pretty much every dumb thing in a lab you can possibly do. But being new at something is actually pretty liberating. You’re expected to make mistakes. You…
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Read more…the 25 “How to do well in organic chemistry” essays that I’ve looked through, here’s the breakdown of the most common words of wisdom: Most common advice on “What to…
Read moreResonance In Organic Chemistry: What Are “Pi Acceptors” Last time we saw that π donors are atoms capable of forming a new π bond with an adjoining C-C π bond….
Read more…aesthetic purposes. It gets more complicated from there of course. The CH3 group comes up so often that we have a common abbreviation for it – “Me”, for methyl. NOT…
Read more…a few of the less common (but still important) reactions you learn in organic chemistry 1. We’ve talked about rearrangements and free-radical substitution: we finish up here with lots of…
Read more…is axial (when it’s equatorial the antibonding orbital points into the ring, making it inaccessible to attack. These are also extremely common exam type questions. Why? Because they combine concepts…
Read more…name for the Cat Line diagram is the “Line-Wedge” diagram since we use wedges to depict the parts that come out of the page, normal lines to depict the parts…
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