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From a “Drop” To B+ in Org 2 – How A Hard Working Student Turned It Around 22 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
How do you go from being clueless in exams to feeling confident? I got the following email last week from a student who we’ll call “Trip”, who wrote to describe how he went from essentially a W in O....
Organic Chemistry For The DAT [Dental Admissions Test] 20 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
I get a lot of questions from students about preparing for the organic chemistry section of the DAT, so I asked Jon Chay to come here to share his expertise in this area. Jon is a dental student and ...
Bond Strengths Radical Stability 14 Aug 2013 | 05:05 pm
Over the last two posts we’ve been going through the factors which affect the stability of free radicals. The bottom line is that radicals are electron deficient and that any factor which either hel....
What Factors Destabilize Free Radicals? 5 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
In the last post we talked about several factors that stabilize free radicals. We saw that since free radicals can be considered electron deficient, any factor which results in donation of electrons t...
3 Factors That Stabilize Free Radicals 2 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
In the last post we introduced free radicals – neutral, electron-deficient chemical species with a partially filled orbital – and learned that they are highly reactive intermediates in organic chemist...
Free Radical Reactions 30 Jul 2013 | 04:24 pm
With rare exceptions, until now every reaction we’ve discussed (acid-base, substitution, elimination, addition) has involved the formation of bonds between an electron pair donor (Lewis base) and an e...
Alkynes Are A Blank Canvas 24 Jun 2013 | 08:21 pm
Now that we’ve gone through all the major reactions of alkynes, we can take a step back and look at the big picture. There are lots of reactions of alkynes. So what? you might ask. In this post I will...
Alkynes Via Elimination Reactions 11 Jun 2013 | 05:15 pm
We’ve gone through elimination reactions before – treatment of alkyl halides with base gives alkenes. Some time ago we discussed elimination reactions here. Elimination reactions follow the general p...
Alkynes Via Elimination Reactions 11 Jun 2013 | 05:15 pm
We’ve gone through elimination reactions before – treatment of alkyl halides with base gives alkenes. Some time ago we discussed elimination reactions here. Elimination reactions follow the general ....
How Serge Aced Organic Chemistry 6 Jun 2013 | 04:07 pm
Over the past few weeks I’ve been corresponding with loyal reader Serge, who was happy to report to me recently that his exam grades are back and he got a 92% in his course, despite a first exam that ...
