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.

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