We understand the insane amount of different kinds of reactions we need to know in o-chem so we compiled them for you! Recommend refering and adding your own notes to this sheet as you go through each chapter in your lecture. By finals week, you should have a great reaction review guide! Note: If you are in 8 or 3B, some of this may be beyond the scope of the course. Cross out reactions that you will not need to know.

All credit for these reaction sheets goes to Steven R. Neal , Senior Lecturer for The Department of Chemistry at The University of Tennessee- Knoxville. - Alyssa R (March 2021)

Organic chemistry reactions cheat sheet.pdf

Functional Groups

This video will cover essential functional groups needed for Organic Chemistry.

Added by: Mahek & Abbas (Fall 2023)

Resonance Structures

Here is a short video going over the resonance structures.

Added by: Preet Kaur (Spring 2021)

Stereochemistry- R and S Configuration

This video provides an overview of the stereochemistry of organic compounds and defines what exactly a chiral carbon center is. This video also shows you how to assign R and S configuration to a chirality center whenever the hydrogen (4th group) atom is in the front, back, or neither. It also discusses nomenclature - how to name organic compounds using R and S absolute configuration. It provides a lot of examples and practice problems.

Added by: Preet Kaur (Spring 2021)

Stereoisomers, Enanatiomers, Meso Compounds and More..

This organic chemistry video tutorial explains the difference between stereoisomers and constitutional isomers. It also shows you how to identify meso compounds, enantiomers, diastereomers, and cis trans geometric isomers. In addition, it discusses chirality - that is, it explains how to determine if a molecule is chiral or achiral due to the presence of an internal plane of symmetry. This stereochemistry based video contains plenty of examples and practice problems.

- Added by Preet Kaur (Spring 2021)