- Organic
Chemistry 4/e Carey Online Learning Center
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Chapter 11
- FRIEDRICH AUGUST KEKULÉ:A SCIENTIST AND DREAMER
- A biography from the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry.
- Kekule' Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- The Institute at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn.
- The Birch Reduction
- A lecture by Scott Handy at Binghamton University.
- Aromaticity
- A short page on aromaticity from Michigan State University.
- Aromatic Compounds and Aromaticity
- A longish page of notes on arenes from the University of East Anglia (that's in England).
- Chapter 12
- Sir William Henry Perkin
- The Chemical Heritage Foundation has a page all about the big guy.
- Aromatic Compounds
- A whole page of notes on aromatic compounds and their electrophilic substitution reactions. I'm not sure who created it.
- Organic Reactions Animations: Friedel-Crafts
- This Brigham Young University site has some pretty good Quicktime animations.
- Charles Friedel (1832-1899)
- This Chimie Paris site has photos of pages from Friedel's and Crafts's laboratory notebooks.
- Chapter 14
- Victor Grignard
- A biography of Grignard at the Nobel e-Museum.
- How to Tackle Organic Syntheses: The Grignard Reaction
- A Beginner's Guide by Prof. Otto Meth-Cohn at the Centre for Chemistry Studies at the University of Sunderland .
- Guidelines for Grignard Retrosynthesis
- A short page by Prof. R. C. Fort, Jr. at the University of Maine.
- Chemical Bonds, Molecular Shapes, and Molecular Models
- A hypermedia-based tutorial on chemical bonds, molecular shapes, and molecular models from Eastern Oregon University.
- Basic Organic Nomenclature
- An Introduction to Basic Organic Nomenclature by Dave Woodcock at Okanagan University College (Chemscape Chime enhanced version is available here.)
- Classifying Isomers
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s flow chart for classifying isomers at the Univ. of Maine. (Ray was my undergraduate organic chemistry professor and advisor at Kent State University.)
- Writing Stereoisomers with Multiple Chiral Centers
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s systematic way to go about writing all of the stereoisomers for a molecule with several
chiral centers at the Univ. of Maine.
- Stereochemistry Online
- Colby College's set of online exercises for understanding stereochemistry.
- First stereochemistry tutorial
- Second stereochemistry tutorial
- Third stereochemistry tutorial
- The Stereochem Game
- A fine set of supplementary materials for organic chemistry at The University of Arizona. (I especially recommend the Stereochem Game!)
- D and L Configurations
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s explanation of the old and confusing method of specifying configurations at chiral centers as D or L at Univ. of Maine.
- Writing Mechanisms
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s primer on writing mechanisms at the Univ. of Maine.
- Predicting Mechanisms of Elimination and Substitution
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s flow chart for predicting what mechanism will predominate based on the reactant, solvent, and nucleophile (base) in a reaction at the University of Maine.
- Nucleophilic Substitution Dry Laboratory
- A online experiment that helps to visualize the steric and inductive effects involved in the nucleophilic substitution mechanisms.
- Using Flash Cards to Learn Organic Reactions
- R. C. Fort, Jr.'s instructions on how to prepare you own flash cards for learning reactions at the Univ. of Maine.
- Organic Webcards
- A set of online flash cards for learning organic reactions at Colby College. (Uses the Shockwave plugin.)
- Electronic Reactions Flash Cards
- Another set of online flash cards. These accompany Fox and Whitesell's Organic Chemistry text.
