November 16, 2012
Courtesy of Dave Blackburn, an organic chemistry instructor “who is giving an exam on this today”, here is a mind map of all the different concepts covered in the discussion on SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 reactions. What’s interesting is that this mind map really boil the “SN1/SN2/E1/E2″ decision down to 3 options: SN2 reaction [...]
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October 29, 2012
I recently got an email from a reader, Stu (not his real name) who told me he got an A in Organic Chemistry 1, and was on pace to do the same in Org 2. I asked him if he’d be willing to share with the readers of this blog how he did it. I [...]
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Khan Academy Gets Serious About Organic Chemistry
February 5, 2013Readers might recall that a few months ago I went through and summarized all 73 of the Khan Academy organic chemistry videos. Going back to the KA site two weeks ago I was surprised to note that big changes have been effected on their organic chemistry home page. The organization of the main page has changed [...]
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