Alcohols Teacher Resources

This site from ScienceWorld provides a brief look at some of the more common organic functional groups. The carboxylic acid group is also given. Quite a few links are provided at the bottom of the page for additional information.

A forensics activity which deals with the idea of alcohol poisoning. Based on a Biology Lab on cell distruction in alcohol and Chemistry's Beer's Law.

Students will study temperature changes caused by the evaporation of alkenes and alcohols and relate this data to the strength of intermolecular forces of attraction. They will also predict, and then measure, the temperature change for...

The alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and carboxylic acids are four different homologous series of organic compounds. Their different chemical properties are due to their characteristic functional groups. This lesson focuses on Alkanes...

Video gives an example for how the Williamson Ether Synthesis works. Learn how by starting with an alcohol and adding a strong base to deprotonate it then adding an alkyl halide an ether is form. [7:08]

Get some introduction information about carboxylic acid in this video. Learn why they are more acidic than alcohol. [8:50]

Understand the formation of a nitrate ester from reaction of an alcohol with nitric acid. [6:07]

Wikipedia entry for the chemical compound ester. Includes naming conventions, properties, reactions, and the like.

Chemguide provides information on both organic acids and organic bases.

This video gives examples of how to name ether. [10:58]

Encyclopedia entry for functional groups that, in in organic chemistry, are specific groups of atoms within molecules that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules.

Learn how acid-catalyzed reactions can open the highly strained ring of an epoxide. [8:42]

Naming of epoxides (cyclic ethers with three atoms in the ring). Preparation of epoxides from alkenes. [8:35]

Understand cyclic ethers and epoxide naming. [7:42]

In this chemistry classroom lab activity, young scholars use critical thinking to investigate the molecular properties of different liquids: rubbing alcohol and water.

It has been discovered that an indigenous Australian plant possesses a compound that shows antiviral activity against the H5N1 virus. Your mission, should you accept it, is to identify the compound before a rival pharmaceutical company...

Understand the ring opening reactions of epoxides using a strong nucleophile in this video. Video will give several examples of this reaction to allow you to understand the steps. [14:06]

A video showing how to prepare sulfides from thiols. [6:58]

Understand the linear geometry of a triple bond. [1:11]

Understand the rules for naming ethers. [11:06]

Stereochemistry of epoxide preparation and how it relates to mechanism. [14:55]

Physical properties of ethers. Crown ethers, which are large, ring-shaped molecules with multiple ether groups. [10:10]