Course curriculum

    1. Introduction to the Course

    2. Acknowledgements

    3. First Semester Diversity and Inclusion Module also Available!

    4. Disclaimer

    1. Aromaticity

    2. Basicity of Nitrogen in Aromatic Molecules

    3. Nomenclature of Aromatic Compounds

    4. Friedel-Crafts Alkylation: An Intramolecular Example

    5. Substituent Effects on Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

    6. Directing Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution

    7. Radical Halogenation of Allylic Sites

    8. Diazotization and Azo Coupling

    1. Carbenes: Beyond Cyclopropanation

    2. Grignard Reagents: Reactions with Ketones and Ketenes

    3. Hydride Reagents

    4. Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions

    5. Alkene (Olefin) Metathesis

    1. Variable Reactivity of Carbonyl Functional Groups

    2. Reaction of Carbon-Centered Nucleophiles with Ketones and Aldehydes

    3. Acetal Formation and Hydrolysis

    4. Preparation and Reaction of Imines

    5. Formation of Alkenes from Carbonyls: Wittig-Like Reactions

    6. Nucleophilic Acyl Substitution

    7. Ester Hydrolysis and Saponification

    8. Amide/Lactam Hydrolysis: Influence of Steric Strain

    9. Reactivity of Nitriles and the Origin of Biomolecules

    10. Enolates as Nucleophiles

    11. Gabriel Malonic Ester Synthesis and Isotopic Labeling

    12. Addition of Nucleophiles to alpha,beta-Unsaturated Carbonyls

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