This page contains various educational materials that are free to be shared by students and teachers. At the moment, the materials consist of lab experiments and organic chemistry problem sets. The experimental handouts consist of procedures and NMR spectra. The problem sets have unanswered and answered versions. Both the labs and problems have accompanying videos.
(This page is still under construction.)
organic laboratory experiments
- crossed aldol condensation
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - Hantzsch thiazole synthesis
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - isolation of aspirin from tablets
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - aromatic bromination with NBS
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition on a furan ring
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - ring aromatization through an elimination reaction
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - dibromination of trans-stilbene
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - SN2 reaction of an aniline on an alkyl halide
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - Knorr pyrazole synthesis
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - benzyl azide synthesis through an SN2 reaction
no handouts for this experiment — video (YouTube) - CuAAC “click” reaction to make a 1,2,3-triazole
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - dibenzylideneacetone synthesis with an aldol condensation
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - imine formation from aniline and benzaldehyde
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - acetylation of benzoin with acetic anhydride
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - Diels-Alder cycloaddition of cycloheptatriene
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube) - Conversion of an anhydride to an imide – tecovirimat synthesis
procedure (pdf) — NMR spectra (pdf) — video (YouTube)
organic problem sets
- converting condensed structural formulas to Lewis dot structures
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - calculating formal charges
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - converting line-angle structures to Lewis dot structures
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - determining hybridization, bond angles, & geometries
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - drawing mechanisms through electron pushing
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - drawing and ranking resonance forms
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - picking the most acidic hydrogen or molecule
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - identifying organic functional groups
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - naming alkanes and haloalkanes
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - naming branched alkyl groups
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - naming alkenes, alkynes, and alcohols
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - naming simple carbonyl compounds
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - drawing and selecting stable cyclohexanes
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - assigning R and S stereochemical configurations
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - classifying SN2, SN1, E2, and E1 reactions
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - drawing alkene addition reaction products
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - distinguishing isomers by 1H NMR spectroscopy
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - identifying aromatic rings
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - predicting carbonyl addition reaction products
- problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube)
- completing enolate reactions
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube) - determining regioselectivity in EAS reactions
problem set (pdf) — solutions (pdf) — solutions (YouTube)