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Understanding Organic Chemistry Through Computation
This online textbook works to clarify challenging concepts in introductory organic chemistry by applying tools from computational chemistry to validate fundamental principles. Utilizing open-access computational resources, students are guided through a set of exercises where core concepts of organic reactivity are explored and visualized.
- Author
- Nicholas Boaz and Orion Pearce
- Publisher
- North Central College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 59 sections
- 01: Introduction to Avogadro
- 1.01: Overview
- 1.02: Background
- 1.03: Computational Instructions
- 1.04: Exercise Questions
- 02: Bond Lengths and Resonance
- 2.01: Overview
- 2.02: Background
- 2.03: Computational Instructions
- 2.04: Exercise Questions
- 03: Visualizing Molecular Orbitals with Avogadro and Orca
- 3.01: Overview
- 3.02: Background
- 3.03: Computational Instructions
- 3.04: Exercise Questions
- 04: Measuring Equilibrium on Cyclohexane Chair Structures
- 4.01: Overview
- 4.02: Background
- 4.03: Computational Instructions
- 4.04: Exercise Questions
- 05: Computing and Visualizing Infrared Spectra of Organic Molecules
- 5.01: Overview
- 5.02: Background
- 5.03: Computational Instructions
- 5.04: Exercise Questions
- 06: Manipulating of Molecules in Three Dimensions
- 6.01: Overview
- 6.02: Background
- 6.03: Computational Instructions
- 6.04: Exercise Questions
- 07: Thermodynamics Kinetics and the Reaction Coordinate Diagram
- 7.01: Overview
- 7.02: Background
- 7.03: Computational Instructions
- 7.04: Exercise Questions
- 08: Understanding the Effect of Solvation on E2 Reactions
- 8.01: Overview
- 8.02: Background
- 8.03: Computational Instructions
- 8.04: Exercise Questions
- 09: Calculating Bond Dissociation Enthalpy and Analyzing the Radical Chlorination of Norbornane
- 9.01: Overview
- 9.02: Background
- 9.03: Computational Instructions
- 9.04: Exercise Questions
- 10: Examining the Synthesis of Naturally Occurring Cyclobutane Compounds
- 10.01: Overview
- 10.02: Background
- 10.03: Computational Instructions
- 10.04: Exercise Questions
- 11: Examining the Energetics of Selectivity in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
- 11.01: Overview
- 11.02: Background
- 11.03: Exercise Questions
- 12: Measuring the influence of ring strain in ether substitution
- 12.01: Overview
- 12.02: Background
- 12.03: Computational Instructions
- 12.04: Exercise Questions