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organic chemistry

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Course Syllabus

  1. Introduction to Organic Chemistry and Bonding
  2. Nomenclature and Isomerism of Alkanes, Alkenes, and Alkynes
  3. Reactions of Alkanes, Alkenes, and Alkynes
  4. Alkyl Halides and Nucleophilic Substitution/Elimination Reactions
  5. Alcohols, Ethers, Phenols, Aldehydes, and Ketones
  6. Carboxylic Acids, Derivatives, Amines, and Spectroscopy

Study Notes

Introduction to Organic Chemistry and Bonding

Organic chemistry is all about carbon compounds. Carbon is special because it can form four strong bonds, leading to incredibly complex and diverse molecules. Most of the stuff you interact with daily – food, plastics, medicines, your own body – is made of organic molecules.

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Introduction to Organic Chemistry and Bonding

Carbon can form single, double, or triple bonds with other carbon atoms, and with atoms like hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and halogens (F, Cl, Br, I). This ability to catenate (form long chains and rings with itself) is key to organic chemistry's complexity.

  • $sp^3$ Hybridization:
    • Occurs when carbon forms four single bonds (e.g., in methane, CH$_4$).
    • One 2s orbital mixes with three 2p orbitals to form four equivalent $sp^3$ hybrid orbitals.
    • Resulting geometry: Tetrahedral (bond angles ~109.5°).
    • All four bonds are sigma (σ) bonds (head-on overlap of orbitals).
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