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Organic Chemistry: Advanced Reaction Mechanisms, Synthesis, and Nomenclature Study Guide

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Wolff Kishner Reduction

  • Mechanism
    04:57
  • General Reaction
    02:26

Cyanohydrin

  • Nitrile Reduction
    02:36
  • Nitrile Hydrolysis
    02:22
  • Addition of Cyanide
    03:53

Protecting Alcohols from Organometallics

  • Use of Protecting Groups
    04:34
  • Provide mechanism and final product of transformation.
    04:45

Alkane Nomenclature

  • Naming the root chain
    01:02
  • Provide the IUPAC name for the following alkane
    07:08
  • The different parts of an IUPAC name
    03:43

Fischer Esterification

  • General Mechanism
    04:08
  • General Reaction
    01:08

Decarboxylation Mechanism

  • Predict the correct structure
    02:32
  • General Mechanism
    04:32

Acid Chloride to Ketone

  • Ketones from acid chlorides
    05:26

Grignard Reaction

  • Reactions of Organometallics
    13:40

Naming Nitriles

  • Name the structure
    00:50
  • Nitrile Nomenclature
    01:01
  • Draw the molecule
    00:28

DIBAL

  • LiAl(ot-Bu)3H on Acid Chlorides
    01:42
  • Why LiAlH4 doesn't work
    02:07
  • DIBAL-H on Esters and Nitriles
    02:10

Acid-Catalyzed Ester Hydrolysis

  • General Mechanism
    02:38
  • General Reaction
    01:31

Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

  • Intro to Nucleophilic Acyl Substituion
    04:06
  • Intro to Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
    03:50

Enolate

  • General Reactions
    02:28
  • Formation of Enolates
    02:26

Resonance Structures

  • How to draw a resonance hybrid.
    03:24
  • The rules you need for resonance:
    03:34
  • How to determine which structure is most stable.
    01:32

Enolate Alkylation and Acylation

  • Enolates of Esters
    03:05
  • General Reaction
    01:11
  • Directed Reactions
    04:35