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Need help with organic chemistry? Get extra practice with this workbook If you’re looking for a little extra help with organic chemistry than your Organic Chemistry I class offers, Organic Chemistry I Workbook For Dummies is exactly what you need! It lets you take the theories you’re learning (and maybe struggling with) in class and practice them in the same format you’ll find on class exams and other licensing exams, like the MCAT.
Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293378) was previously published as Organic Chemistry I For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118828076). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.The easy way to take the confusion out of organic chemistryOrganic chemistry has a long-standing reputation as a difficult course.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 07-26-2021
Get a firm grasp on organic chemistry. Successfully studying organic chemistry means getting to know the elements of the periodic table and the important facts that highlight the fundamentals of organic chemistry. This Cheat Sheet shows it all.The basics of organic chemistryWhen you explore biology, you’ll find that many processes are constantly occurring in living organisms.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-24-2022
You won't get very far in your study of organic chemistry without the periodic table of elements and an understanding of the common functional groups (or reactive centers) that dictate how most of a compound's chemical reactions occur.Common functional groups in organic chemistryIn organic chemistry, functional groups (or reactive centers) are small structural units within molecules that dictate how most of the compound’s chemical reactions occur.
Step by Step / Updated 07-05-2023
When elements combine through chemical reactions, they form compounds. When compounds contain carbon, they’re called organic compounds. The four families of organic compounds with important biological functions areCarbohydratesThese molecules consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a ratio of roughly 1:2:1.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
IR (infrared) spectroscopy is useful in organic chemistry because it enables you to identify different functional groups. This is because each functional group contains certain bonds, and these bonds always show up in the same places in the IR spectrum.
Functional groups are the portions in an organic molecule that dictate how the molecule will react.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Hydration, or adding water across a double bond to make an alcohol, is a reaction that's similar to the addition of a hydrohalic acid across a double bond. Two different reactions accomplish the hydration. The first reaction adds the alcohol (OH group) to the most substituted carbon on the double bond to make the Markovnikov product, and the complementary reaction puts the alcohol on the least substituted carbon in the double bond to make the anti-Markovnikov product.
Article / Updated 09-27-2022
Studying the elements of the periodic table is vital for understanding organic chemistry. So that you don't have to memorize each element, they're grouped together by their properties.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Alcohols and amines are fairly easy to identify in the IR spectrum, based on their relative locations and shapes. The first thing you'll notice is that both of these functional groups appear to the left of the C-H absorptions, which always occur between 2,800 cm–1 to 3,000 cm–1 in the IR spectrum.
Absorption of alcohol.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
In general, the strength of an acid in an organic compound is directly proportional to the stability of the acid's conjugate base. In other words, an acid that has a more stable conjugate base will be more acidic than an acid that has a less stable conjugate base.
Acidic molecules generally have structural features that allow the anion in the conjugate base to delocalize the charge over a larger space.