Benzene and Aromaticity

Lecture Description

Course Description

Introduction to organic chemical structures, bonding, and chemical reactivity. The organic chemistry of alkanes, alkyl halides, alcohols, alkenes, alkynes, and organometallics.

Course Index

1. Delocalized Pi Systems Propenyl and Butadiene
2. Delocalized Pi Systems: 2-Propenyl and Extended Conjugation
3. Diels-Alder and Electrocyclic Reactions
4. Benzene and Aromaticity
5. Annulenes and Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
6. Directing Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
7. More Directing Effects in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
8. Aldehydes and Ketones: Nomenclature, Spectra, Preparation
9. Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Additions
10. Enols, Enolates, Enals, and Enones
11. Unsaturated Aldehydes and Ketones
12. Conjugate Additions. Carboxylic Acids: Properties
13. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Preparation
14. Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: Interconversions and Reactions
15. Amines: Properties and Preparation
16. Amines: Reactions
17. Benzylic Reactivity
18. Chemistry of Substituted Benzenes
19. Dicarbonyl Compounds
20. Masked Acyl Anions. Carbohydrates: Names and Structure
21. The Families of Sugars and Chemistry of Aldoses
22. Oxidations, Degradation, Fischer Proof, and SCarbohydrate Oligomers in Nature
23. Heterocycles: Saturated and Aromatic
24. Properties and Chemistry of Heteroaromatic Compounds
25. Alkaloids. Amino Acids: Properties
26. Final Lecture for Chemical Structure and Reactivity: The Future