Structure and naming of organic compounds

Key Knowledge

• • The carbon atom with reference to valence number, bond strength, stability of carbon bonds with other elements and the formation of isomers (structural and stereoisomers) to explain carbon compound diversity, including identification of chiral centres in optical isomers of simple organic compounds and distinction between cis- and trans- isomers in simple geometric isomers

  • Structures including molecular, structural and semi-structural formulas of alkanes (including cyclohexane), alkenes, alkynes, benzene, haloalkanes, primary amines, primary amides, alcohols (primary, secondary, tertiary), aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and non-branched esters

  • IUPAC systematic naming of organic compounds up to C8 with no more than two functional groups for a molecule, limited to non-cyclic hydrocarbons, haloalkanes, primary amines, alcohols (primary, secondary, tertiary), carboxylic acids and non-branched esters.

Resources

Chemistry 2

• Chapter 8. Structures and nomenclature of organic compounds, p259-299

Problem Solving Exercises

• Exercise 8.2 The carbon atom, page 263, problems 1-5

• Exercise 8.3  Structure and naming of organic compounds, page 280-282, problems 1-10

• Exercise 8.4 Functional groups and naming priority, page 283-284, problems 1-6

• Exercise 8.5 Isomers, page 291, problems 1-10

• Exercise 8.6 Review, page 291-299

Presentations

• Naming organic compounds quiz

• Isomers

Videos

The links take you directly to YouTube. The videos are embedded below for viewing from a school login.

Crash Course has come out with a whole new organic chemistry series. 

• 3D structure and bonding - Crash Course Organic Chemistry

• The basics of organic nomenclature - Crash Course Organic Chemistry

• More organic nomenclature: Heteroatom functional groups - Crash Course Organic Chemistry

• Stereochemistry  - Crash Course Organic Chemistry

• How to FInd Chiral Centers & the Difference between Chiral vs Achiral Molecules - Melissa Maribel

Older, but still very good, videos

• Bond line structures - Khan Academy
  A set of four videos nicely explaining the different ways of illustrating structures of organic molecules

• Hydrocarbon derivatives (functional groups) - Crash Course Chemistry

• Nomenclature - Crash Course Chemistry

  • There are also other Crash Course videos that are relevant here, but I have listed them under the next topic