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More Stereochemical Relationships - Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Enantiomers have almost all the same chemical and physical properties, so it can be tough to separate them. But it’s still super important that we know how to tell them apart! In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll...
Curated Video
Chirality in Organic Compounds: Asymmetry in Action
Chirality refers to molecules that have a non-superimposable mirror image due to an asymmetric carbon atom. These chiral compounds are vital in many biological systems, as their mirror images often have different effects
Professor Dave Explains
Strecker Amino Acid Synthesis
Amino acids, nature makes them, and humans have been making them as well since 1850. The first lab synthesis of amino acids was reported by Adolph Strecker, so it's called the Strecker amino acid synthesis, and despite being so ancient...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Hydrogenation, Isomerism, and Cyclohexane Chairs
For this one we need to understand the stereospecificity of hydrogenation over platinum metal, stereochemical relationships, and the relative stability of cyclohexane chair conformations.
Catalyst University
Catalytic Hydrogenation: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples
Catalytic Hydrogenation: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples
Professor Dave Explains
Chiral Molecules With No Chiral Centers
Looking at interesting molecules in virtual reality that possess no chiral centers.
Khan Academy
Chiral Examples 2, Stereochemistry, Organic chemistry
After providing two more examples of diagramming in different ways, Sal reviews that a molecule that cannot be superimposed on its own mirror image is defined as chiral. The terms given to the chiral center carbon are provided.