List of basic organic chemistry topics

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This is a list of organic chemistry topics. This page should serve as the starting point for a well-balanced understanding of organic chemistry. For a textbook, see wikibooks:Organic chemistry.

Contents 1 Chemical species 2 Reactions 3 Other concepts 4 References

[edit] Chemical species

• 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

• Aldehydes and ketones

• Alkanes and cycloalkanes
  • Alkane conformation

• Alkenes
  • Alkene structure alkene properties alkene nomenclature alkene preparation terpene hydrocarbons alkene reactions

• Alkynes

• Amines

• Amino acids, peptides, proteins

• Aromatics, benzene, phenols, aromatic derivatives

• Aromatic hydrocarbons and aromaticity

• Aryl halides

• Carbohydrates

• Carboxylic acids

• Carboxylic acid derivatives

• Chemical bonding
  • Covalent bonding Lewis model molecule shapes bond angles functional groups polar and nonpolar molecules resonance structures

• Enols, enolate anions, enamines

• Ester enolates

• Ethers, epoxides, and sulfides

• Lipids

• Nucleic acids

• Organometallic compounds

[edit] Reactions

• Alkene reactions

• Beckmann rearrangement

• Beta elimination

• Electrophilic aromatic substitution

• Elimination reactions

• Nucleophilic substitution
  • S_N1 reaction
  • S_N2 reaction

[edit] Other concepts

• Chirality

• Conjugated systems

• Infrared spectroscopy

• Mass spectrometry

• • Stereoisomerism chemical chirality naming stereocenters stereoisomer properties optical activity enantiomers chirality in biology

[edit] References