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A complete online e‑workbook with questions, answers, tips, and explanatory videos covering introductory organic chemistry concepts, mechanisms and reactions with minimal memorization.
Chapter 1
Fundamental Concepts
Fundamental principles vital to any introductory chemistry course.
Chapter 2
Introductory Mechanisms
Nucleophilic substitutions; additions to alkenes, alkynes and benzene; and, an introduction to oxidation states.
Chapter 3
Spectrometry And Spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry, ultraviolet absorption and fluorescence, infra-red (IR), ¹³C nucelar magnetic resonance (NMR), ¹H NMR, and problem solving.
Chapter 4
Additions To Aldehydes / Ketones And Carbohydrates
Acetals and ketals: cyanohydrins, imines, enamines, nitriles and isonitriles; monosaccharides, and di- oligo- and polysaccharides.
Chapter 5
Heterocycles And Nucleic Acids
Heterocyclic aromaticity, nucleic acids, DNA synthesis and sequencing, DNA analysis and editing.
Chapter 6
Esters, Lipids, Amides, Amino Acids, Peptides And Proteins
Ester formation and hydrolyses; lipids; amide hydrolyses and dehydration, activation of carboxylic acids and acylation, amino acids, peptides, peptidesyntheses, and proteins.