Each of the reactions typically studied in the first semester 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