List of basic organic chemistry topics

This is a list of organic chemistry topics. This page should serve as the starting point for a well-balanced understanding of organic chemistry. For a textbook, see .

Chemical species

*Acids and bases
**Bronsted-Lowry acids and bases, acid dissociation constants Lewis acids and bases relative strengths of acids and bases

*Alcohols and alkyl halides, diols, thiols

*Aldehydes and ketones

*Alkanes and cycloalkanes
**Alkane conformation

*Alkenes
**Alkene structure alkene properties alkene nomenclature alkene preparation terpene hydrocarbons alkene reactions

*Alkynes

*Amines

*Amino acids, peptides, proteins

*Aromatics, benzene, phenols, aromatic derivatives

*Aromatic hydrocarbons and aromaticity

*Aryl halides

*Carbohydrates

*Carboxylic acids

*Carboxylic acid derivatives

*Chemical bonding
**Covalent bonding Lewis model molecule shapes bond angles functional groups polar and nonpolar molecules resonance structures

*Enols, enolate anions, enamines

*Ester enolates

*Ethers, epoxides, and sulfides

*Lipids

*Nucleic acids

*Organometallic compounds

Reactions

*Alkene reactions

*Beckmann rearrangement

*Beta elimination

*Electrophilic aromatic substitution

*Elimination reactions

*Nucleophilic substitution
** S_N1 reaction
** S_N2 reaction

Other concepts

*Chirality

*Conjugated systems

*Infrared spectroscopy

*Mass spectrometry

**Stereoisomerism chemical chirality naming stereocenters stereoisomer properties optical activity enantiomers chirality in biology

References