Hexagons appear all over the natural world from honeycomb to bubbles, and they even appear in organic chemistry! In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we're learning all about cyclohexanes, including how rings pucker to...

We’ve spent the last few episodes talking about substitution reactions, but now it’s time to talk about a related type of reaction: elimination reactions! Elimination reactions are super important because they are the main way we can...

Alkanes are kind of the wallflowers of organic chemistry, but they still have important functions in the world around us. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry we’re building our knowledge of organic molecules by learning all...

Newman projections are a powerful tool for visualizing the three-dimensional conformations of cycloalkanes. By looking down the axis of a particular bond, this projection allows chemists to depict the spatial arrangement of atoms and...

Looking at how E2 reactions occur on cyclic substrates.

Aconitase 2

Spin that sigma bond and what do you get? Draw the Newman projections and find out! Watch out for pesky gauche interactions.

For this one, we will need to be able to draw Newman projections as well as name the molecule using the rules of IUPAC nomenclature. Basic stuff!

Looking at the conformations of ethane and butane and their relative energies, as well as how to draw Newman projections.

Harder examples using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention.