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Organic Chemistry
Contents:
 * 1) Review
 * 2) Alkanes
 * 3) Alkenes
 * 4) Alkynes
 * 5) Redox Reactions
 * 6) Stereo Chemistry
 * 7) Radicals
 * 8) Substitution and Elimination Reactions

Review
To do well in Organic Chemistry, the student should: practice many problems, learn and understand, but never memorize, approach every reaction as a Lewis Acid and Base reaction, and learn and understand how reagents affect the reactants and the products. Also, reviewing information from General Chemistry may be helpful. For example: (These are only examples of information that may benefit students. Not every student is alike, therefore some may need to review other information or none.)
 * electron configuration
 * valence electrons
 * ionic and covalent bonds
 * polarity and electronegativity
 * Lewis structures
 * molecular orbitals
 * valence-shell electron-pair-repulsion model
 * hybridization
 * hyperconjugation
 * bong angles
 * Lewis Acids and Bases
 * Redox Reactions

Approach every reaction as a Lewis Acid and Base reaction.

Alkanes

 * 1) In order for students to understand reactions of alkanes, nomenclature of alkanes is crucial.
 * 2) After mastering nomenclature comes drawing alkanes: skeletal structures, Newman projections, and conformations. Purchasing and building models of molecules may help students with drawing.
 * 3) Learn and understand the mechanisms for the reactions of alkanes.

Alkenes

 * 1) Practice naming and drawing alkenes.
 * 2) Learn and understand the mechanisms for the reactions of alkenes.
 * 3) Understand the Hammond postulate.
 * 4) Learn and understand stability. This is very important throughout all of Organic Chemistry.

Alkynes

 * 1) Practice naming and drawing alkynes.
 * 2) Learn and understand the mechanisms for the reactions of alkynes.

Redox Reactions

 * 1) Learn and understand the terms: oxidation, reduction, reducing agent, and oxidizing agent.

Stereochemistry

 * 1) Learn and understand the terms: isomers, steroisomers, chiral, achiral, asymmetric center, enantiomers, diastereomers, regioselective, stereoselective, and stereospecific.
 * 2) Practice reading and drawing enantiomers and diasteromers using perspective formulas and Fischer projections while using the R and S nomenclature.

Radicals

 * 1) Learn and understand the mechanisms for the reactions of alkanes.
 * 2) Distinguish between initiation, propagation, and termination.
 * 3) Learn and understand the stability of radicals.

Substitution and Elimination Reactions

 * 1) Learn and understand the mechanisms for SN1, E1, SN2, and E2 reactions.
 * 2) Next, writing down the differences between SN1 and E1, SN2 and E2 helps distinguishing which reaction takes place.
 * 3) Learn and understand protic and aprotic solvents.