Tutorials

Tutorials created by Steven Hardinger (harding@chem.ucla.edu), UCLA, Department of Chemistry

Formal Charge

• Formal Charge

Curved Arrows

• Curved Arrows

Resonance

• Vocabulary
• Drawing Resonance Structures
• Most Important Resonance Structure

Electrophiles and Nucleophiles

• Nucleophiles and Electrophiles

Acids and Bases

• Vocabulary
• Conjugate Acids and Bases
• Use of the pK_a Table
• Molecular Structure and Acidity

Stereochemistry

• Vocabulary
• Identifying Stereocenters
• Determining Molecular Chirality
• Classification of Isomers
• Stereocenter Nomenclature: The R/S System
• Drawing Enantiomers and Diastereomers
• Specific Rotation and Related Calculations

Functional Group Preparations

• Summary of Functional Group Preparations