Organic Chemistry I

Lecture Handouts

LEC #	TOPICS	LECTURERS	HANDOUTS
1	Introduction to Organic Chemistry, Review, Molecular Structure	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF 1) (PDF 2)
2	Resonance, Acidity and Basicity	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF 1) (PDF 2) (PDF 3) (PDF 4)
3	Alkanes and Isomerism	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
4	Conformational Analysis of Alkanes	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
5	Conformational Analysis of Cycloalkanes	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
6	Stereochemistry I	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
7	Stereochemistry II, Overview of Chemical Reactions I	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
8	Overview of Chemical Reactions II	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
9	Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Reaction Coordinate Diagrams	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
10	Alkenes	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
11	Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes (EAA): Carbocation Intermediate (Mechanism, Regiospecificity, Carbocation Stability, Hammond Postulate)	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
12	EAA: Stereochemistry, Rearrangements	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
13	EAA: 3-Membered Ring Intermediate	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
14	EAA: Concerted Mechanism	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
15	Alkene Cleavage, Addition of HBr (radical)	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF) Chanteau, Stephanie H., and James M. Tour. “Synthesis of Anthropomorphic Molecules.” J Org Chem 68 (2003): 8750-8766.
16	Alkynes	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski	(PDF)
17	Reactions of Alkynes	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
18	Alkyl Halides	Dr. Kimberly Berkowski
19	Alkyl Halides, Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
20	Alkyl Halides, Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
21	Alkyl Halides, Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
22	Alkyl Halides: Elimination Reactions, Aromaticity	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
23	Alkyl Halides: Elimination Reactions, Aromaticity (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
24	Alkyl Halides: Elimination Reactions, Aromaticity (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
25	Aromaticity	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF 1) (PDF 2)
26	Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
27	Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
28	Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
29	Alcohols and Phenols, Introduction to Catalysis	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
30	Alcohols and Phenols, Introduction to Catalysis (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF 1) (PDF 2)
31	Alcohols and Phenols, Introduction to Catalysis (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor	(PDF)
32	Carbonyl Chemistry	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
33	Carbonyl Chemistry (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
34	Multistep Synthesis	Prof. Sarah O’Connor
35	Multistep Synthesis (cont.)	Prof. Sarah O’Connor