- Outline of organic chemistry
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Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon and sulfur.[1][2][3]
Organic compounds are structurally diverse. The range of application of organic compounds is enormous. They form the basis of, or are important constituents of, many products (plastics, drugs, petrochemicals, food, explosives, paints, etc.) and, with very few exceptions, they form the basis of all earthly life processes.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:
Contents
General topics
- History of organic chemistry
Current trends
Current trends (as of 2008) in organic chemistry include:
- Chiral synthesis
Concepts
- Acids and bases
- Brønsted-Lowry acids and bases
- Acid dissociation constants
- Lewis acids and bases
- Molecular structure
- Aromaticity
- Chemical bonding
- Covalent bonding
- Lewis model
- Molecule shapes
- Bond angles
- Resonance structures
- Conjugated systems
- Functional groups
- Stereochemistry
- Conformational isomerism
- Diastereomer
- Stereoisomerism
- Chirality
- Optical activity
- Enantiomers
Chemical species
- Alkanes and cycloalkanes
- Aryl halides
- Carbonyl compounds
- Organometallic compounds
Reactions
See also List of organic reactions
- Cyclization
- Elimination reaction
- Beta elimination
- E1cB elimination reaction
See also
References
- ^ Robert T. Morrison, Robert N. Boyd, and Robert K. Boyd, Organic Chemistry, 6th edition (Benjamin Cummings, 1992, ISBN 0-13-643669-2) - this is "Morrison and Boyd", a classic textbook
- ^ John D. Roberts, Marjorie C. Caserio, Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry,(W. A. Benjamin, Inc. ,1964) - another classic textbook
- ^ Richard F. and Sally J. Daley, Organic Chemistry, Online organic chemistry textbook. Ochem4free.info
External links
- MIT OpenCourseWare: Organic Chemistry I
- Organic Chemistry Lectures, Videos and Text
- Journal of Organic Chemistry (subscription required) (Table of Contents)
- Organic Chemistry Portal - Recent Abstracts and (Name)Reactions
- Home of a full, online, peer-reviewed organic chemistry text
- Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry Resources WorldWide - A collection of Links
- Organic Families and Their Functional Groups
- Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry - multimedia teaching tools
- Organic chemistry help
- Organic Chemistry Tutor
- Organic chemistry help-Best of the Web 2008
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