Each of the reactions typically studied in the two semesters of the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry sequence has been summarized in a short (2-4 minute) video that features a walk through the basics and how the mechanism works. This includes stereochemical and regiochemical considerations, as well as the mechanism arrows used to describe bond breaking and bond forming events. Click each image to open each video.

Substitutions and Eliminations at sp3 Carbon

Electrophilic Addition to alkenes

stereochemically interesting Additions to alkenes

Alkynes: synthesis & addition chemistry

ReactiOns involving radical intermediates

Ethers, Epoxides & Sulfur Analogs

Extended pi Systems

Aromaticity & benzylic reactions

Aromatic Substitutions

Carboxylic acids & derivatives

alpha-carbon reactions

Amines