Welcome to Further Organic Chemistry

This catagory builds further on the previous organic chemistry catagories and looks at organic chemistry to a very advanced degree (equivalent to the last year of high school in UK). Here you will find out about

  • Optical isomerism
  • Aromatic chemistry (benzene rings)
  • Amino acids.
    • Nomenclature and IsomerismNaming organic compounds, review of structural and geometrical isomerism and optical isomers.
    Carbonyl ChemistryAldehydes & Ketones, formation and naming of esters, acylation mechanisms.
    Aromatic ChemistryStructure of Benzene ring; the nitration of benzene (electrophilic substitution); Freidel-Crafts reactions.
    Amines & Amino AcidsNomenclature, properties, making amines (haloalkanes, nitriles), amino acids, proteins.
    PolymersAddition polymerisation and condensation polymerization to form polyamide and polyesters.
    SpectrospcopyLearn how to use mass spectrometry and infra-red spectroscopy in structure determination.
    NMR SpectroscopyNuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, chemical shift, TMS, high resolution, n+1 rule.