Organic Chemistry

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• Organic Chemistry: Guide to Separation Schemes

  Step 1: Ask yourself which compounds are soluble i n water at neutral pH. To determine this follow the general rules below. a) For a gi...

• Organic Chemistry: Functional Group Polarity

  A molecules polarity depends primarily on 1. The extent to which it can hydrogen bond 2. The number of electronegative atoms 3. The polariz...

• Organic Chemistry: Distinguishing Aldehydes and Ketones using IR

  The following two spectra are simple carbonyl compounds. Formaldehyde, the simplest aldehyde, and acetone, the simplest ketone. Students o...

• Organic Chemistry: Reporting Spectral Data

  In advanced laboratories, your spectral data is often the most important peice of data to prove that you have achieved your objectives. Ide...

• Organic Chemistry: Cis and Trans isomers

  Beyond the basics of being able to recognize cis isomers and trans isomers, it is interesting to note the physical implications of the isome...

• Organic Chemistry: The shifting carbonyl stretching frequency

  Which of the following structures would you expect to have the strongest (higest wavenumber) streching frequency for the carbonyl stretch? T...