Outline of organic chemistry

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:

Organic chemistry – scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur.

General topics

• History of organic chemistry

• IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry

• Organic reaction

• Organic compound

• Organic synthesis
  • Retrosynthetic analysis
  • Drug design

Current trends

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

• Chiral synthesis

• Green chemistry

• Microwave chemistry

• Fullerenes

• microwave spectroscopy.

Concepts

• Acids and bases
  • Brønsted-Lowry acids and bases
  • Acid dissociation constants
  • Lewis acids and bases

• Chemoselectivity

• Molecular structure
  • Aromaticity
  • Chemical bonding
    • Covalent bonding
    • Lewis model
    • Molecule shapes
    • Bond angles
    • Resonance structures
  • Conjugated systems
  • Functional groups
  • Stereochemistry
    • Conformational isomerism
    • Diastereomer
    • Stereoisomerism
    • Chirality
    • Optical activity
    • Enantiomers

• Regioselectivity

• Stereoselectivity

• Spectroscopy
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • Mass spectrometry
  • NMR spectroscopy

• Organometallic chemistry

Chemical species

• Acetals
  • Hemiacetals
  • Thioacetals
  • Ketals

• Alcohols and alkyl halides, diols, thiols

• Alkanes and cycloalkanes

• Alkenes

• Alkynes

• Amines

• Amino acids, peptides, proteins

• Aromatics
  • Anilines
  • Benzene
  • Phenols

• Aromatic hydrocarbons

• Aryl halides

• Carbohydrates
  • Sugar

• Carbonyl compounds
  • Acid anhydride
  • Acyl halides
    • Acyl chlorides
  • Aldehydes
  • Amides
    • Lactams
  • Carboxylic acids
  • Enones
  • Esters
    • Lactones
  • Imides
  • Ketones

• Enols
  • Enolate anions
  • Enamines

• Ethers
  • Epoxides
  • Sulfides

• Imines
  • Schiff bases

• Ketenes

• Lipids

• Nitriles

• Nucleic acids

• Organometallic compounds

• Oximes

Reactions

See also List of organic reactions

• Addition reaction
  • Electrophilic addition
  • Nucleophilic addition

• Cyclization

• Elimination reaction
  • Beta elimination
  • E1cB elimination reaction

• Organic redox reaction

• Pericyclic reaction

• Polymerization

• Rearrangement reaction
  • Beckmann rearrangement

• Substitution reaction
  • Electrophilic aromatic substitution
  • Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
  • Electrophilic substitution
  • Nucleophilic substitution
    • S_N1 reaction
    • S_N2 reaction

See also

• Important publications in organic chemistry
• List of organic reactions

External links

• MIT OpenCourseWare: Organic Chemistry I
• Organic Chemistry Lectures, Videos and Text
• Journal of Organic Chemistry (subscription required) (Table of Contents)
• Organic Chemistry Portal - Recent Abstracts and (Name)Reactions
• Home of a full, online, peer-reviewed organic chemistry text
• Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
• Organic Chemistry Resources WorldWide - A collection of Links
• Organic Families and Their Functional Groups
• Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry - multimedia teaching tools
• Organic chemistry help
• Organic Chemistry Tutor
• Organic chemistry help-Best of the Web 2008