UNITS 10&20 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Essential ideas:

• Organic chemistry focuses on the chemistry of compounds containing carbon.
• Structure, bonding and chemical reactions involving functional group interconversions are key strands in organic chemistry.
• Key organic reaction types include nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic addition, electrophilic substitution and redox reactions. Reaction mechanisms vary and help in understanding the different types of reaction taking place.
• Organic synthesis is the systematic preparation of a compound from a widely available starting material orthe synthesis of a compound via a synthetic route that often can involve a series of different steps.
• Stereoisomerism involves isomers which have different arrangements of atoms in space but do not differ in connectivity or bond multiplicity (ie whether single, double or triple) between the isomers themselves.

Syllabus information

POWERPOINT

USEFUL STUFF

STUDENT RESOURCES ON NAMING COMPOUNDS

WORKSHEETS

Classification of organic compounds

Organic nomenclature answers

Naming; alkanes, alkenes and alkynes

Spotting isomers answers

Functional groups

addition polymers

Organic chemistry for dummies workbook

LABS

Extracting an alkene from oranges

Oxidation of alcohols

Fruity esters

Substituting halogenoalkanes