Creative Chemistry
Preparation of Triiodomethane (Iodoform)
For this preparation of triiodomethane learning exercise, students use propanone to prepare triiodomethane. Students use filtration and recrystallization to produce the product. They determine the melting point using a melting point...
Curated OER
Chemical Formulas
Students examine the structure of molecules, their formula, and percentage composition of each element in the compound. They construct an organic compound with different functional groups using a modeling kit, and draw a 3-D structure...
Other
School of Chemistry: Aldehydes and Ketones
Solid introduction to naming, structure, and reactions of ketones.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Aldehydes and Ketones Questions
Questions pertaining to aldehydes and ketones.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Ketone
This Wikipedia article explains and illustrates the chemical compound ketone.
Other
Frostburg State University: Organic Chemistry Tutorials
This site features tutorials on alkenes, alkanes, alkynes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, amines, ketones, aldehydes, and benzene. The tutorials lists the properties of each, structure and classification, the nomenclature, and gives...
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Molecular Structures: Ketones
Discover the chemical structure of ketones by manipulating these 3-D molecules. Also find links to information about other chemistry topics.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Lipid Metabolism
Students learn how energy can be derived from fat, and then explain the purpose and process of ketogenesis, ketone body oxidation, and lipogenesis.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Fatty Acids Tutorial
This tutorial on fatty acids is presented in an outline format and features related informational links.
Other
Ask the Dietitian: Fad Diets
Find questions and answers about different types of fad diets. Learn about possible long-term effects of high protein and liquid diets, fast fat burning, and the "Zone" diet, and find out what fasting, vegetable diets, and grapefruit...
University of Alberta
The University of Alberta: Detective O Chem
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...
Other
Frostburg State University: Organic Chemistry Help
This site is designed to be a supplement for students of organic chemistry. Its tutorials and self-grading tests are interactive and extremely helpful.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Functional Groups
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module, students explore functional groups and their importance to organic chemistry. They relate the properties of organic compounds to their structures and...
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Diabetes
In-depth article that examines the disease of diabetes from symptoms to diagnosis to treatment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Effects of Insulin Deficiency
Practice for the MCAT by answering these questions using the given graph showing the effects of insulin deficiency.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Diabetes and Hyperglycemia
Read a passage about diabetes and hyperglycemia and answer the follow-up questions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Structure of Monosaccharides
Practice for the MCAT with this quiz about carbohydrates.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Organic Chemistry
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.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Chemicals in the Environment
Information summaries on some chemicals and descriptions of how you might be exposed to these chemicals, how that exposure might affect the environment, etc. Please note that this type of information changes rapidly.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Functional Group
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cyclic Hemiacetals and Hemiketals
Provides a discussion of cyclic hemiacetals and hemiacetals and how they are formed.