Organic Chemistry is Awesome

Over 400+ blog posts to guide you through introductory Organic Chemistry, organized by subject.

00 General Chemistry Review
  • Gen Chem and Organic Chem: How are they different?
  • How Gen Chem Relates to Organic Chem, Pt. 1 - The Atom
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 2 - Electrons and Orbitals
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 3 - Effective Nuclear Charge
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 4 - Chemical Bonding
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 5 - Understanding Periodic Trends
  • From Gen Chem to Org Chem, Pt. 6 - Lewis Structures, A Parable
  • From Gen Chem to Org Chem, Pt. 7 - Lewis Structures
  • From Gen Chem to Org Chem, Pt. 8 - Ionic and Covalent Bonding
  • From Gen Chem to Org Chem, Pt. 9 - Acids and Bases
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 10 - Hess' Law
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 11 - The Second Law
  • From Gen Chem to Org Chem Pt. 12 - Kinetics
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Pt. 13 - Equilibria
  • From Gen Chem to Organic Chem, Part 14: Wrapup
01 Bonding, Structure, and Resonance
02 Acid Base Reactions
03 Alkanes and Nomenclature
04 Conformations and Cycloalkanes
05 A Primer On Organic Reactions
06 Free Radical Reactions
07 Stereochemistry and Chirality
08 Substitution Reactions
09 Elimination Reactions
10 Rearrangements
11 SN1/SN2/E1/E2 Decision
12 Alkene Reactions
13 Alkyne Reactions
14 Alcohols, Epoxides and Ethers
15 Organometallics
16 Spectroscopy
17 Dienes and MO Theory
18 Aromaticity
19 Reactions of Aromatic Molecules
20 Aldehydes and Ketones
21 Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
22 Enols and Enolates
23 Amines
24 Carbohydrates
25 Fun and Miscellaneous

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After doing a Ph. D. in organic synthesis at McGill and a postdoc at MIT, I applied for faculty positions at universities during the Great Recession. It didn't work out. But having seen first-hand how many people struggled with the subject (including myself when I took it as an undergraduate) I thought there was a need for an online organic chemistry resource that had all the rigor of a traditional textbook, but was more approachable and accessible.

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