Organic chemistry isn’t that different from an adventure game, with substrates as characters, nucleophiles as magic potions, and reaction conditions as different magical kingdoms. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll...

Looking at situations where multiple possible elimination products are possible, and labeling them as Zaitsev or Hofmann based on relative degrees of substitution.

An introduction to addition reactions.

We know how to do elimination reactions when something like a halogen is the leaving group. But we can we do this kind of chemistry to eliminate an amino group? We can! We have to do something called exhaustive methylation, and once you...