Whether you are taking Organic Chemistry 1 or 2, at the end of the semester, you will have accumulated a lot of material to study and get ready for the exam. And even though there is not really a shortcut in learning all the principles and mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, it is important to recap what matters and leave out the things that are not as necessary and only make things complicated. If you are overwhelmed with all the material and simply do not have the time to summarize what you learned during the semester, check these review notes for Organic Chemistry!
For the more detailed Table of Contents, check the Organic Chemistry Study Guides page.
Every one of them took me over 100 hours to ensure they are comprehensive and easy to understand. They are built based on the undergraduate curriculum of most colleges in North America. Below is the sort table of contents:
Table of Contents
- Lewis Structures, Resonance Structures, and Formal Charges
- Geometry and HybridizationMolecular Representations (Converting between Bond-line, Lewis, and Condensed structures)
- Acids and Bases
- Conformations of Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
- Stereochemistry and Chirality
- Summary Sheet: Nucleophilic Substitution – SN1 an SN2
- Elimination Reactions – E1 and E2
- Competition in Substitution and Elimination Reactions; SN1/E1 vs SN2/E2
- Reactions of Alkenes
- Reactions of Alkynes
- Reactions of Alcohols
- The Diels-Alder Reaction
- Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
- Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones
- Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
- Carbohydrates
NMR and IR Spectroscopy Summary Sheets
- How to Solve IR Problems in 3 Steps
- NMR Spectroscopy – 5 pages that include
- Chemical Shift and Integration
- Number of NMR signals
- Spin-Spin Splitting (Multiplicity) of the NMR signal
- 13C NMR Spectroscopy
- How to Determine the Structure of an Unknown Using 1H NMR
