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Organic Chemistry Exam Study Guidance: Aromaticity, Mechanisms, and Reactions

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Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution – General Mechanism

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

Aromaticity - Introduction

  • Intro to Aromaticity
    08:19

Four Tests of Aromaticity

  • Four tests
    10:23

Aromaticity of Hydrocarbons

  • Determine the aromaticity
    00:39
  • Determine the aromaticity
    01:06
  • Determine the aromaticity
    02:58

SNAr Addition-Elimination Mechanism

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

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

Reaction Mechanism

  • How to tell if charged molecules will react as nucleophiles or electrophiles.
    02:39
  • Nucleophile or Electrophile
    01:49
  • How to tell if uncharged molecules will react as nucleophiles or electrophiles.
    02:48

Acid Base Equilibrium

  • The 3 steps for determining the direction of acid and base equilibrium.
    05:11
  • Determining Acid/Base Equilibrium
    04:00
  • Determining Acid/Base Equilibrium
    02:34

pKa Values

  • Identifying pKa values
    07:45
  • The 12 pKa values you want to memorize (because they are important!).
    09:36

Intro to Redox

  • Distinguishing between Oxidation and Reduction
    00:54
  • Distinguishing between Oxidation and Reduction
    01:18
  • Distinguishing between Oxidation and Reduction
    00:54

Oxidation

  • Reagents
    01:52
  • Strong oxidizing agents
    05:53
  • Strong oxidizing agents
    03:40

Nucleophilic Addition

  • Nucleophilic Addition
    08:27

Hemiacetals

  • Acid-Catalzed Mechanism
    04:08
  • Base-Catalyzed Mechanism
    01:59
  • General Features
    03:34

Acetals

  • General Mechanism
    06:41