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Chemistry 51A: Organic Chemistry

Chemistry 51A: Organic Chemistry (Fall 2009, UC Irvine). Instructor: Professor James Nowick. Fundamental concepts relating to carbon compounds with emphasis on structural theory and the nature of chemical bonding, stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, and spectroscopic, physical, and chemical properties of the principal classes of carbon compounds.

Introduction


Lecture 01 - Syllabus and Introduction
Lecture 02 - Bond Polarity, Formal Charge, Lewis Structures
Lecture 03 - Resonance Structures, Skeletal Structures, Bond Length
Lecture 04 - Orbital Models of Structure and Bonding
Lecture 05 - Molecular Geometry, Acids and Bases
Lecture 06 - Acid Strength and Equilibria
Lecture 07 - Lewis Acids, Lewis Bases, and Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Lecture 08 - Organic Compounds and Functional Groups
Lecture 09 - Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Amines
Lecture 10 - Carbonyl Compounds, Intermolecular Forces
Lecture 11 - Introduction to Alkanes
Lecture 12 - Nomenclature of Alkanes, Conformations of Ethane
Lecture 13 - Conformations of Butane and Cycloalkanes
Lecture 14 - Conformations of Cyclohexane
Lecture 15 - Introduction to Stereochemistry
Lecture 16 - Assigning Tetrahedral Stereogenic Centers
Lecture 17 - Meso Compounds
Lecture 18 - Properties of Chiral Compounds
Lecture 19 - Introduction to Understanding Organic Reactions
Lecture 20 - Energy Diagrams, Transition States, and Reaction Rates
Lecture 21 - Energetics of Reactions
Lecture 22 - Introduction to Alkyl Halides and Nucleophilic Substitution
Lecture 23 - Mechanistic and Stereochemical Aspects of SN2 Reactions
Lecture 24 - Mechanistic and Stereochemical Aspects of SN1 Reactions
Lecture 25 - Properties of Electrophiles, Leaving Groups, and Nucleophiles
Lecture 26 - Elimination Reactions. Introduction to E2 Reactions
Lecture 27 - Regiochemical and Stereochemical Course of E2 Reactions
Lecture 28 - E1 Reactions, Comparison of SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 Reactions