Welcome to learning about organic chemistry!
Regrettably, I am a chemistry major. Organic chemistry deals with the connections of specifically carbon-based molecules, and how manipulating those connections can create many useful compounds. They do follow a pattern of reacting, and it can take a while to learn all of the ways in which two molecules may interact in the presence of different solvents/catalysts. Organic chemistry is 1. hard to learn, but 2. actually pretty rewarding and interesting once you've learned it. That being said, I am sharing all of my chapter notes from OChem 1 and OChem 2 in the hopes that it may help someone or at least be interesting to a couple of nerds. The pages are listed in the same order that I studied them, so scrolling from top to bottom is recommended.
Feel free to use control F to search through the chapters! Chapters are labelled in text on the page.
Chapter 1: Structure and Bonding
Chapter 2: Acids and Bases/Functional Groups
Chapter 3: Structure and Stereochemistry of Alkanes
Chapter 4: Chemical Reactions (a study of)
Chapter 5: Stereochemistry
Chapter 6: Alkyl Halides and Nucleophilic Substitution
Chapter 7: Structure and Synthesis of Alkenes
Chapter 8: Reactions of Alkenes
Chapter 9: Alkynes
Chapter 10: Structure and Synthesis of Alcohols
Chapter 11: Reactions of Alcohols
Chapter 12: Infrared Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry
Chapter 13: NMR Spectroscopy
Chapter 15: Conjugated Systems, Orbital Symmetry, and UV Spec. (Chapter 14 comes later)
Chapter 16: Aromatic Compounds
Chapter 17: Reactions of Aromatic Compounds
Chapter 14: Ethers and Epoxides (There it is! This is the order my prof presented it, and so I'm preserving that)
Chapter 18: Ketones and Aldehydes
Chapter 19: Amines
Chapter 20: Carboxylic Acids
Chapter 21: Carboxylic Acid Derivatives
Chapter 22: Alpha Substitutions of Carbonyls
Chapter 23: Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acid
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It would be really funny if this was left blank, believe me the humor doesn't escape me, but to be honest this is just a work in progress. The notes will be here eventually, when I have time to post them lmao.
I do have to apologize here, I don't have a lot of notes on chapters 12 or 13 (IR, Mass Spec, and NMR) because at that time we were already using those methods regularly in lab and the chapters were mostly review. Rest assured, they aren't that awful to cover, it's mainly just recognizing which functional group gives which spike where, it can be summed up in a list and a couple general explanations.
Again, not a lot of notes here since we were already regularly analyzing NMR spectrums in labs. I'll see if I can sum it up and write something on it later but it's not going to be here as soon as the other chapters (Since they already have notes written for them)
Yep, we skipped chapter 14 for now, since my professor said that it was more relevant to cover it a little later with some other chapters. You will see it later in this list, maybe after chapter 16 or 17? I can't remember but it's over there somewhere.
Ah, here it is! Told you it would turn up...