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How to study and Dr. Iverson’s Golden Rules
University of Michigan’s virtual textbook
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Reaction Pathways |
Gray’s organic chemistry flash cards (substitution, elimination, addition, oxidation, reagents)
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Alkenes |
EZ Rules, alkenes and carbocation stability (pdf), more alkene reactions, bromination, hydroboration, ozonolysis |
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Acid Catalysis |
Acetals and important guidelines for acid/base catalysis in protic media
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redox |
How to determine the oxidation state at carbon |
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Carbonyl Additions |
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Fate of the Tetrahedral Intermediate and an example with an aldehyde. |
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Reactivity Trends In Carbonyl Chemistry (pdf) and another way of seeing it with a pKa table. |
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The haloform reaction – leaving group stability. |
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Introduction to Aldehyde enolates, tautomerization, and resonance stabilization. |
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All nucleophiles add to Aldehydes the same way |
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Pagenkopf’s Organic I Organic II from Texas
Suggested journals: Organic Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition
Chemical structure drawing programs: ISIS/Draw (free, link in lower left), ChemSketch (ACD Labs freeware), ChemDraw ($$)
PDF generators: Adobe (ARGH!! + $$$$), pdf995 (free), cutepdf (free). Note: Some versions of WORD for MAC have built in PDF generators.
Periodic Tables: plain, interactive, spiral, for NMR
Name reactions: Monomerchem, Organic-Chemistry.org, Smith’s
pKa lists: Evans, Reich, simple
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Goodman Worldwide Chemistry Web Sites, Cook Canadian Organic Chemists, McIntosh US Organiclinks, UT US Universities
NIST Chemistry WebBook and selected structures at: WWU Virtual Molecular Model Kit
WebSpectra - Problems in NMR and IR Spectroscopy
Spectral Database – Japanese National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research
How to keep a research notebook: site 1, site 2.
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