List of organic chemistry topics

This is a list of organic chemistry topics. This page should serve as the starting point for a well-balanced understading of organic chemistry. In fact, this page could make your expensive organic chemistry textbook obsolete.

Table of contents

1 Chemical species 2 Reactions 3 Other concepts

Chemical species

Chemical bonding

Covalent bonding Lewis model molecule shapes bond angles functional groups polar and nonpolar molecules resonance structures

Alkanes and cycloalkanes

Alkane conformation

Alkenes

Alkene structure alkene properties alkene nomenclature alkene preparation terpene hydrocarbons alkene reactions

Alkynes

Acids and bases

Bronsted-Lowry acids and bases, acid dissociation constants Lewis acids and bases relative strengths of acids and bases

Alcohols and alkyl halides, diols, thiols

Arenes and aromacicity

Ethers, epoxides, and sulfides

Aldehydes and ketones

Enols, enolate anions, enamines

Carboxylic acids

Carboxylic acid derivatives

Ester enolates

Amines

Aryl halides

Aromatics, benzene, phenols, aromatic derivatives

Carbohydrates

Lipids

Amino acids, peptides, proteins

Nucleic acids

Organometallic compounds

Reactions

Alkene reactions

Elimination reactions

Nucleophilic substitution

• S_N1 reaction
• S_N2 reaction

Beta elimination

Electrophilic aromatic substitution

Other concepts

Chirality

Stereoisomerism chemical chirality naming stereocenters stereoisomer properties optical activity enantiomers chirality in biology

Infrared spectroscopy

Mass spectrometry

Conjugated systems