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Org 1 Summary Sheets
The 20-page summary that should have come with your textbook. Show more
- These sheets provide a condensed summary of an entire Org 1 course, so you can access the key concepts, reactions, and mechanisms from your textbook in just a few pages.
- If your midterm or final is fast approaching, and you feel behind in your exam prep these notes can help you get up to speed - fast!
- Designed for introductory organic chemistry courses at all levels in the USA and Canada (including ACS exams), but also useful as a refresher on the basics!
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Immediate download for test prep -
Print ready PDF - nothing is mailed -
Contains key concepts covered in exams
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1. Bonding & Hybridization
What is bonding and why does it occur – What is antibonding – What is pi bonding –Hybridization – sp3 sp2 and sp hybridization examples – Trigonal pyramidal, trigonal planar, tetrahedral, linear, bent geometries – How does hybridization affect bond strength – Shortcut for finding hybridization of any atom
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2. Formal Charge, Dipoles, Boiling Points, and Curved Arrows
How to calculate the formal charge of an atom – Identifying dipoles – Dipoles are the key to understanding boiling points and reactivity – Dipole moments Factors that affect boiling points - –Four key forces – Ionic , hydrogen bonding, van der Waals dipole and dispersion interactions – Curved arrows and how to use them – Three legal moves for curved arrows – Examples of curved arrows
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3. Introduction to Alkane Nomenclature
How to name organic compounds - Functional group priorities - Applying the chain length rule – Identifying substituents – The lowest locator rule – Dealing with multiple and branched substituents – Putting it all together
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4. Conformations and Newman Projections
What are conformations – The Newman projection – Staggered and eclipsed – Identifying syn, anti, gauche interactions – Calculating energies of conformations using a “price list” – Mapping out conformation energies on a graph
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5. Cycloalkanes
Examples of cyclic alkanes – Geometric isomers - cis and trans – Ring strain of cyclopropane and cyclobutane – Chair conformation of cyclohexane – Drawing Newman projection of a chair – How to do a chair flip – Equatorial and axial positions – A values – Calculating relative different energies of conformations – Application in substitution and elimination reactions
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6. Resonance
What is resonance – Resonance hybrids – How to use curved arrows to interconvert resonance forms – 5 steps to figuring out the most stable resonance form – Applying resonance to understand reactions – pi donors and pi acceptors
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7. Free Radicals
What is a free radical? – 3 key factors that stabilize free radicals –Bond strengths as a guide to radical stability – Showing electron movement with single barbed arrows – Halogenation of alkanes – Recognizing initiation, propagation, termination steps – Identifying free radical initiators – Selectivity of bromine vs chlorine – Allylic and benzyilic bromination – Free radical addition of hbr to alkenes – Calculating selectivity
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8. Introductions to Acids & Bases
Introduction to acids and bases – Bronsted and Lewis definitions of acids – Simple examples of acid base reactions - The four key actors – How to define and measure acidity – Ka and pKa – 6 key factors that affect acidity - Charge, electronegativity, polarizability, resonance, inductive effects, hybridization – How to tell if an acid base reaction will be favorable or not using pKa
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9. Substitution & Elimination
The SN2 mechanism - Steric effects - Polar aprotic solvents and the SN2 - What makes a good leaving group - How the substrate influences reactivity - 4 key factors that affect nucleophilicity - Good, OK and weak nucleophles – The e2 mechanism - strong bases - periodic trends for basicity
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10. SN1/SN2/E1/E2 Decision
How to determine if a reaction will proceed via SN1, SN2, E1 or E2? This handy flowchart covers all the possibilities and will help you make the right decision.
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11. Alkene Reactions
All the key reactions of alkenes on a single page, with notes on their stereochemistry, Markovnikov's rule, possible rearrangements, and more.
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12. Alkyne Reactions
Key reactions of alkynes - the reagents, bonds formed/broken, stereochemistry, and more.
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