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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Chemistry 220a, Fall 2001

Index:

Conformation

Degree of Unsaturation

History of Organic Chemistry

Mechanisms

Molecules in Motion

Old Exams

Old Problem Sets

Orbitals

Organic Reactions Go Online (ORGO)

Oxidation Levels

pKa Values

Resources on the Web

Spectrometry

Stereoisomers

Thermochemistry

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Conformation

• Ethane
• Propane
• Butane
• Cyclopropane
• Cyclobutane
• Cyclopentane
• Cyclohexane
• Drawing cyclohexane (PowerPoint)
• Methylcyclohexane: equatorial vs. axial
• trans-1,2-Dimethylcyclohexane
• cis-1,2-Dimethylcyclohexane
• More on cycloalkanes

Degree of Unsaturation

History of Organic Chemistry New for '01

• Here at Yale
  
  
  • The Composition and Structure of Ether
  • The Etherin Theory
  • A Brief History of Organic Chemistry (PowerPoint)
  • Kekule's 19 Formulas of Acetic Acid (1867)
  • Van't Hoff: The Arrangement of Atoms in Space
  • Emil Fischer and the Structure of Glucose
  • Rosanoff's Classification of Aldoses
  • Founders of Organic Chemistry (18th and 19th century)
    • Adolf von Baeyer
    • Jons Jacob Berzelius
    • Michael Faraday -(Christmas Lectures)
    • Emil Fischer
    • August Wilhelm Hofmann
    • August Kekule
    • Antoine Lavoisier
    • Justus Liebig
    • Louis Pasteur
    • William Henry Perkin
    • Jacobus van't Hoff's Molecular Models
    • Friedrich Wohler
      
      
• On the Web
  
  
  • General Information
    
    
    • Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
    • History of Chemistry
    • Images of Chemists
    • 100 Distinguished European Chemists of the 19th Century
      
      
  • Classic Papers and Other Items of Interest
    
    
    • On the Present State of Organic Chemistry (Radical Theory)-Dumas and Liebig (1837)
    • Early Type Theory-On the Constitution of Acetic and Trichloroacetic Acid-Dumas (1839)
    • Wöhler's S.C.H.Windler letter to Liebig on Dumas's Substitution Theory-(1840)
    • Sketch of a Course on Chemical Philosophy-Cannizzaro-(1858)
    • van't Hoff and the Tetrahedral Carbon (1874)
      
      
• On the Lighter Side of Organic Chemistry
  
  
  • Good Will Hunting
  • How Not to get A's in Organic Chemistry
  • Things They Don't Teach You in High School
  • Professor Liebowitz's Duck
  • High Tech vs. Low Tech
  • On Being Prepared for the ORGO Final
  • Wohler and Urea
  • Left-Handed Bias
  • More on the Lighter Side (Yale Only)
    

Mechanisms

• Bromination of Cyclohexene
• Hydroboration
• Ozonolysis updated 10/24/01
• Pericyclic Reactions

Molecules in Motion

(View the following molecules with the Chime^TM plug-in)

• C₆₀ Buckminsterfullerene (Bucky Ball)
• Methane
  

Old Exams

• Fall '00 (HTML) x1 x2 x3 x4 final
• Fall '00 (PDF) x1 x2 x3 x4 final
• Fall '01 (HTML) x1 x2 x3 x4 make-up final
• Fall '01 (PDF) x1 x2 x3 x4 make-up final

Old Problem Sets

• Fall '00 PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 PS6 PS7 PS8 PS9 PS10
• Fall '01 (HTML) PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 PS6 PS7 PS8 PS9 PS10
• Fall '01 (PDF) PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4 PS5 PS6 PS7 PS8 PS9 PS10

Orbitals

• Sigma Bonds from p-Orbitals: Fluorine
• sp Hybrid Orbital
• sp2 Hybrid Orbital
• sp3 Hybrid Orbital
• Molecular Orbitals of Acetylene
• Molecular Orbitals of Ethylene
• Molecular Orbitals of Ethane
• Molecular Orbitals of Methane
• Pericyclic Reactions Sorry, your web browser does not support Java applets, or you have turned them off. Try Netscape 3.0 or better, or MSIE 3.0 or better.
  • Molecular Orbitals
  • Cycloaddition Reactions
  • Electrocyclic Reactions

Organic Reactions Go Online (ORGO)

Oxidation Levels

pKa Values

Resources on the Web

(If you know of other links that should be here, mail to: frederick.ziegler@yale.edu.)

• Solving NMR Spectral Problems (UCLA)
• Solving NMR Spectral Problems (Notre Dame)
• More on Solving NMR Spectra (UIChicago)
• Yet More NMR Spectral Problems
• More on NMR Spectroscopy (Wake Forest)
• The Basics of NMR (RIT)
• All You Ever Wanted to Know About NMR (GSU)
• All You Ever Wanted to Know About IR (GSU)
• All You Ever Wanted to Know About UV (GSU)
• Flashcards of Chemical Reactions
• How to Tackle Organic Synthesis
• Help with Terms in Organic Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry Links
• IUPAC Rules of Nomenclature
• Factoids...Are they factual?
• On Edwin Abbott's Flatland ----> The Online Text
• A Potpourri of Organic Chemistry Stuff (BioChemNet)
• More on cycloalkanes
• Molecule of the Month
• The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells (1898)
• The Ultimate ORGO Link/WEB-sters' Organic Chemistry

Spectroscopy

• Mass Spectrometry (Powerpoint)
• NMR Spectral Problems

Stereoisomers

• Introduction
• Exercises 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
• RS Convention
• Chirality of Shells (Powerpoint) 

Thermochemistry

• Hess's Law of Constant Heat Summation
• Table of Heats of Formation
• Table of Bond Dissociation Energies

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