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Enols and Enolates - Reactivity, Halogenation, and Alkylation: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
You may know that cows produce methane, which is a big concern when it comes to global heating, but did you know that organic chemistry provides a potential solution to this problem? Feeding cows small amounts of red seaweed can greatly...
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Alcohols, Ethers, and Epoxides: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
What comes to mind when you think of alcohol? Probably alcoholic drinks like beer or wine. But in organic chemistry alcohols are an important and versatile family of compounds. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll use...
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Amines: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Did you know that the fishier a fish smells, the longer it’s been out of the water? This is due to a chemical called trimethylamine, which is an amine, the class of organic compounds we’re discussing in this episode! Although they tend...
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Organocuprates (Gilman Reagents)
We've seen organometallic reagents featuring magnesium, as well as lithium, so how about copper? These are called organocuprates, or sometimes Gilman reagents. What do they look like? How do we make them? What do we do? Let's take a look!
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Hunsdiecker Reaction
This reaction comes to us thanks to a German husband and wife chemist team! Isn't that romantic? And it allows us to convert a carboxylic acid into an alkyl halide, which is very neat. Oh, and there's radical chemistry! Of course you...
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Preparation of Amines: Reduction of nitro compounds
It explains six methods of preparation of amines with the help of associated chemical reactions.
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Practice Problem: Grignard Reactions
Grignards are all over the place! Better make sure we can draw the correct products of Grignard reactions. Try these for practice.
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Organolithium Reagents
We've seen one organometallic reagent before, the Grignard reagent. That had magnesium in it. Well now let's learn another! Organolithium reagents are commonly used, so let's see what they do.
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Organic Chemistry Synthesis Challenge 1
Need some organic chemistry practice? Here's a tricky synthesis to try!
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Chemical Reactions : Nucleophilic substitution reactions
It explains multiple chemical reactions of haloalkanes with examples.
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Alkanes - Preparation, properties and uses
It explains the preparation, physical and chemical properties, uses of alkanes.
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Halogen Compounds:Methods of Preparation
This nugget explains methods of preparation of alkyl halides.
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Gabriel Amine Synthesis
It's time to learn some name reactions! We've seen a lot of these already, but now we are going to hit several dozen more. First up, the Gabriel synthesis of primary amines. This is an old one, from 1887. Let's check out some old school...
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Khan Academy: Functional Groups
Learn about the common functional groups found in organic chemistry in this video. Understand that functional groups are group of atoms that have predictable chemical behavior. [7:22]
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Khan Academy: Preparation of Sulfides
A video showing how to prepare sulfides from thiols. [6:58]