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Key Mechanisms and Reactions for Organic Chemistry Exam 1 (Chapters 12–14)

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Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution – General Mechanism

  • EAS General Mechanism
    06:52
  • EAS Review
    03:07

Generating Electrophiles – EAS Halogenation

  • EAS Halogenation
    06:26

Generating Electrophiles – EAS Nitration

  • Reduction of Nitro Groups
    03:23
  • EAS Nitration
    06:09

Generating Electrophiles – Friedel-Crafts Alkylation

  • Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
    06:30

Generating Electrophiles – Friedel-Crafts Acylation

  • Friedel-Crafts Acylation
    05:20

EAS – Monosubstituted Benzene

  • Badass Activity Chart
    11:55
  • Activity and Directing Effects
    04:29

SNAr Addition-Elimination Mechanism

  • The Meisenheimer Complex
    06:23
  • Which ipso-substitution is more favored
    03:30
  • General Mechanism
    06:45

Diels-Alder Reaction - General Features

  • General Features
    09:48

Syn Vicinal Dihydroxylation

  • General properties of syn vicinal dihydroxylation.
    03:50
  • Predict the product for the following multi-step reaction.
    04:42

Wittig Reaction

  • Box-Out Method and Full-Mechanism
    15:39

Alkynide Synthesis

  • Understanding how to convert terminal alkynes to alkynides.
    04:19
  • Using double dehydrohalogenation to perform alkynide synthesis.
    02:57
  • The mechanism of alkynide synthesis.
    03:48