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Organic Chemistry Final Exam Review: Key Concepts and Practice

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How To Determine Solubility

  • Introducing common solvents and other molecules in organic chemistry.
    02:01
  • Understanding “like dissolves like”.
    01:47

Acids and Bases

  • Lewis vs. Bronsted-Lowry Definition
    07:46
  • The Bronsted-Lowry definition of acids and bases.
    00:54
  • Equilibrium constant and conjugates.
    02:11

pKa

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

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

Ranking Acidity

  • Which of the oxides is the most basic?
    00:30
  • The 3 factors that determine the strength of inductive effects.
    03:09
  • Using Inductive Effect to determine acidity
    01:54

IUPAC Naming

  • 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

Cis vs Trans

  • Why we need to use the E/Z naming system
    02:07
  • What does E and Z stand for?
    00:50
  • How to name different types of double bonds or rings
    04:28

Conformational Isomers

  • Understanding what a conformer is.
    03:29

Newman Projections

  • How to draw a Newman Projection Energy Diagram.
    07:27
  • How sigma bond rotation is visualized
    03:11
  • The energy states of 3 different Newman Projections.
    03:51

Drawing Newman Projections

  • Step 6 to Drawing Newman Projections
    01:31
  • Step 5 to Drawing Newman Projections
    01:51
  • Step 3 to Drawing Newman Projections
    00:28

Monosaccharide

  • Identifying Types of Stereoisomers
    03:42
  • Monosaccharide
    12:01

Monosaccharides - D and L Isomerism

  • Monosaccharides - D and L Isomerism
    06:47

Monosaccharides - Drawing Fischer Projections

  • Monosaccharides - Drawing Fischer Projections
    09:56

Monosaccharides - Haworth Projections

  • Monosaccharides - Haworth Projections
    04:03

Mutarotation

  • Mutorotation and Optical Activity
    08:17
  • Mechanism
    03:06

L and D Amino Acids

  • Representations of L-Configuration
    05:09
  • Converting Bondline to Fischer Projection
    03:59