How to Do Well in Organic Chemistry: One Student’s Advice
Over at Med School Odyssey, the author recently wrote about finishing Org 1, and has a lot to share about his experiences with the course.
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Introduction to Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Today starts a new series of posts on walking through one of the key classes of reaction in organic chemistry:
Read moreProblem Solving In Organic Chemistry
One of the reasons why so many students find organic chemistry difficult is that the problem-solving methods required to succeed in the course take them
Read more“America’s Top TA” Shares His Secrets For Teaching O-Chem
[image photo credit: www.nyapplecountry.com] What does it take to be a great organic chemistry TA? A few weeks ago, Dan Coiro, a graduate of Rutgers
Read moreTwo Types of Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
Comparing Two Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions That Clearly Have Different Mechanisms Experiments tell us that nucleophilic substitution reactions generally fall into two main groups: In one group: The reaction
Read moreThe SN2 Mechanism
The SN2 Reaction Mechanism Having gone through the two different types of substitution reactions, and talked about nucleophiles and electrophiles, we’re finally in a position
Read moreNaming Bicyclic Compounds – Fused, Bridged, and Spiro
Bicyclic Compounds – Fused Rings, Bridged Bicyclic Rings, and Spiro Bicyclic Rings In the previous post we started our discussion of structures with more than one
Read moreWhy the SN2 Reaction Is Powerful
SN2 Reaction Examples To Give Alcohols, Ethers, Thiols, Sulfies, Alkynes, and More. Having gone through the mechanism of the SN2 reaction, let’s take a second
Read moreFrost Circles
We’ve spent a lot of time in previous posts “building up” and drawing out the molecular orbitals for various species. In this post we’ll learn
Read moreThe SN1 Mechanism
The SN1 Reaction Mechanism There are two important classes of nucleophilic substitution mechanisms – the SN1 and SN2 mechanisms (See article – Two Types of
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