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Handwritten overview of the Introductory Organic Chemistry I material. Covers information from the textbook, "Organic Chemistry Eigth Edition" by Paula Yurkanis Bruce. The information included is study guide/cheat sheet style notes on: Chapter 2: Acids and Bases Chapter 3: An Introduction to Organic Compounds Chapter 4: Isomers Chapter 5: Alkenes, Thermodynamics and Kinetics Chapter 6: The Reactions of Alkenes Chapter 7: The Reactions of Alkynes Chapter 8: Delocalized Electrons, Aromaticity and Electronic Effects Chapter 9: Substitution and Elimination Reactions of Alkyl Halides Chapter 10: Reactions of Alcohols & Epoxides & some information on how to approach NMR Questions based on Chapter 13: IR Spectroscopy and Chapter 14: NMR Spectroscopy

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Chapter 2: Acids + Bases



pka = -



log(ka) &
stronger acid will behave as the acid

& Ea favors formation of weaker acid &
↳ acid
smaller
pla =
stronger

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.
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accept an
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. Electron delocalization stabilizes con base by

= :



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<
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b basic form
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, Ch . 3 : Intro to Organic Compounds

methyl
-
3V1 butyl
constitutional isomers : same molecular formula
s
Λ
atnge
* isobutyl
connected
but atoms
differently

#V propyl xX-sec-butyl
2C 2 H X + N
first
+ -
-




determine DoV =




↳ j = doub.

* isopropyl 5k tert-butyl
bond or
ring


IUPAC
Naming Rules : Newman projection : there are different "spatial
1
.
Longest cont .
chain (containing func grps) arrangements" of the atoms that result from rotation

conformational isomers
2
2 Name
alkyl subs w/ number, order so subs have about
single bond
a -




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"
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H
-
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chains hyperconjugation
-
.
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=
,




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Stabilizes
greatest# subs " "

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Corbs parallel)
4
4. Chly alkane staggered eclipsed

ring w/2 subs gives 1 in alpha order +
next more stable

lowest # possible
steric strain : repulsion btw . e cloude

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Gauche
in
ex : butane
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down


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.


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-
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D
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It
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clockwise 1 pos .
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,
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position
Lea
in EQUATORIAL ANTI
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1 3-diaxial interactions




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most
stable



barrier to rotation diff btw of each
energies
=




℃ conformation




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me


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