Organic Chemistry Course Notes Archive
A project of the organic chemistry students of Steve Hardinger and UCLA

Many thanks to all the students who have contributed to this archive!

Presented here are course notes written by students for students. They are "the best of the best." Use them as a bridge between lecture, the Thinkbook and the textbook.

Lecture notes may refer to specific pages in the text or Thinkbook. Because these resources change (especially the Thinkbook), the specific page numbers may no longer be valid.

These notes may contain some errors, so beware! Because these notes are generated by students, they are not eligible for Error Bounty Extra Credit.

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Submission for the Chemistry 14C and Chemistry 14D notes archive are not currently being accepted, but other extra credit is available. Check the course web page.

Review Topics
       Chemistry 14C      
Chemistry 14D
Functional Groups
Introduction and Review
Ionic Substitution - SN2
Nomenclature
version 1      version 2
Resonance
Ionic Substitution - SN1
Hybrid Orbitals
Conjugated Molecules
Elimination Reactions
Strain
version 1      version 2
Introduction to Aromaticity
version 1      version 2
Addition to Carbon - Carbon Pi Bonds
Conformations of Acyclic Molecules
version 1      version 2
Stereochemistry
version 1      version 2      version 3
Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
version 1     version 2     version 3
Conformations of Cyclic Molecules
Carbohydrates
Radicals
version 1      version 2


Mass Spectrometry
Carbonyl Chemistry - Fundamentals
version 1      version 2      version 3      version 4


Infrared Spectroscopy
Carbonyl Chemistry - Reactions and Mechanisms


1H-NMR Spectroscopy
version 1      version 2      version 3
Enolates, Enols, and Enamines


13C-NMR, 2D-NMR and MRI
Organic Chemistry of Pharmaceuticals


Solving Spectroscopy Problems
Drug Development: Discovery to Market


X-ray Diffraction



Noncovalent Molecular Forces
version 1      version 2



Structure and Reactivity: Acids and Bases



Lipids



Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins



Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids