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Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 21
Keywords: amine bases, amines
Description: Amine topics: -amine basicity -Hoffman elimination -Reductive amination -Nitrile reduction
Total Problems: 7
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 20
Keywords: aldol condensation, Claisen condensation
Description: Enolate formation and carbonyl alpha position pKa. Aldol and Claisen condensations.
Total Problems: 8
Keyword: carbonyl alpha substitution
Description: Goes over how to form enols/enolates under acidic and basic conditions, and how enols/enolates react.
Total Problems: 6
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 19
Keyword: nucleophilic acyl substitution
Description: Goes over carboxylic acid derivatives and the nucleophilic acyl substitution mechanism. Includes synthesis problems.
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 18
Keywords: acid strength, carboxylic acids
Description: Goes over topics related to carboxylic acids:
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 17
Keywords: aldehydes, ketones
Description: Problems related to aldehydes and ketones: Wittig, imines, acetals, and protecting groups.
Textbook and Chapters: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapters 17, 18, 19
Keywords: carbonyl hydrates, nucleophilic acyl addition, nucleophilic acyl substitution
Description: The most important mechanism in second semester organic chemistry. Goes over carbonyl addition/substitution mechanisms under both acidic and basic conditions.
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 16
Keywords: epoxides, Williamson ether synthesis
Description: Covers the major topics dealing with ethers and epoxides:
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 15
Keywords: alcohols, hydride reduction, oxidation
Description: Goes over how alcohols can be oxidized to form aldehydes/ketones and carboxylic acids, which can be transformed further using Grignard reagents, hydride reagents such as NaBH4, and by performing Fischer esterification. Includes several synthesis problems involving carbonyls and epoxides. Also includes an NMR based problem.
Total Problems: 5
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 14
Keywords: Grignard, nucleophilic acyl addition
Description: Grignard reagent problems: addition to carbonyls (aldehydes, ketones, esters), synthesis, and an NMR problem.
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 13
Keywords: carbon NMR, proton NMR
Description: Several NMR problems. Two are conceptual and the rest are structure determination.
Keywords: alpha cleavage, heterolytic cleavage, homolytic cleavage, mass spec
Description: Goes over alpha-cleavage and the McLafferty rearrangement in mass spectrometry. (Alpha cleavage is more important to know than the McLafferty rearrangement)
Total Problems: 3
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 12
Keywords: EAS mechanism, EDG and EWG, Friedel-Crafts
Description: Covers electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reactions in detail.
It includes many, many resonance exercises that show why:
Total Problems: 11
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 11
Keywords: aromaticity, benzylic position, heteroaromatic compounds
Description: Goes over benzene, aromaticity, and the benzyl position (1 carbon away from benzene). Lots of aromatic resonance practice.
Textbook and Chapter: Carey and Giuliano 8th Ed. (2010), Chapter 10
Keyword: Diels-Alder
Description: Diels Alder stuff- predict the products, retrosynthesis, and dienophile reactivity.