List of organic chemistry topics

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The following list is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry.

[edit] Branches

[edit] Current trends

Current trends (as of 2008) in organic chemistry include:

• chiral synthesis
• green chemistry
• microwave chemistry
• fullerenes
• microwave spectroscopy.

[edit] History

[edit] 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
  • sulfides

• Lipids

• Nucleic acids

• Organometallic compounds

[edit] Reactions

• Alkene reactions

• Beckmann rearrangement

• Beta elimination

• Electrophilic aromatic substitution

• Elimination reactions

• Nucleophilic substitution
  • S_N1 reaction
  • S_N2 reaction

[edit] Other concepts

• Chirality

• Conjugated systems

• Infrared spectroscopy

• Mass spectrometry

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

[edit] See also

Organic chemistry portal

• Important publications in organic chemistry
• List of organic reactions

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