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Second-semester organic chemistry: aromatic chemistry, full carbonyl/acyl chemistry, enolate condensations, amines, biomolecules, advanced spectroscopy, and multi-step retrosynthesis. AP-equivalent rigor with a 1–5 score predictor.
This Organic Chemistry 2 course on Study Mondo covers 17 topics organized across 6 categories. Each topic includes detailed written explanations, worked examples, practice problems with step-by-step solutions, flashcards for review, and interactive lessons to help you master the material.
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Diagnostic across all Organic Chemistry 2 topics: aromatics, full carbonyl chemistry, enolates, biomolecules, advanced NMR, retrosynthesis.
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Conjugated dienes, Diels-Alder pericyclic reactions, aromaticity, EAS, NAS, phenol/quinone chemistry
Conjugation, 1,2- vs 1,4-addition, Diels-Alder reaction, MO theory, and UV-Vis spectroscopy
Aromaticity, Hückel's rule, benzene structure, nomenclature, and aromatic vs antiaromatic
EAS mechanism, halogenation, nitration, Friedel-Crafts, directing effects, and multi-step synthesis
Frontier molecular orbital analysis, [4+2] cycloadditions, endo selectivity, electrocyclic reactions, and sigmatropic rearrangements
Nucleophilic addition, organometallic reagents, reduction/oxidation, nucleophilic acyl substitution at carboxylic acid derivatives
Enol/enolate formation, alpha-halogenation/alkylation, aldol & Claisen condensations, Michael additions, Robinson annulation
Keto-enol tautomerism, enolate formation, aldol reaction, Claisen condensation, Michael, and Robinson reactions
Crossed and intramolecular aldol reactions, Claisen and Dieckmann condensations, directed enolates with LDA
Conjugate (1,4) addition to α,β-unsaturated carbonyls, soft vs hard nucleophiles, and the Robinson annulation ring-forming sequence
Amine basicity & synthesis, Hofmann elimination, diazonium chemistry, intro to heterocycles
Carbohydrates, amino acids/peptides/proteins, lipids and nucleic acids — through an organic-mechanism lens
Monosaccharide structure, Fischer/Haworth projections, disaccharides, and polysaccharides
Amino acid structure, acid-base properties, peptide bonds, protein structure levels, and reactions
Fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, terpenes, steroids, nucleotides, and DNA/RNA
Advanced 2D NMR (COSY, HSQC, HMBC), structure elucidation, retrosynthetic analysis, multi-step total synthesis