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CHM 223 Chemistry III: Organic Chemistry (2025)
LibreTexts
Material builds on introductory organic chemistry topics covered in CHM 222 and focuses more heavily on retrosynthetic analysis and multistep synthetic planning. Specific topics include reactions of alkyl halides, alcohols and ethers; aromaticity and reactions of benzene; and cycloaddition reactions including the Diels-Alder reaction.
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Organic Chemistry
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.13: Chemistry MattersOrganic Foods- Risk versus Benefit · 2.10: Organic Acids and Organic Bases · 2.13: Chemistry MattersAlkaloids- From Cocaine to Dental Anesthetics
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Organic Chemistry II
Wade Textmap · LibreTexts
In the contents: 16.07: Diels-Alder Stereochemistry · 16.11: Conjugation Color and the Chemistry of Vision · 22.04: Acid Halide Chemistry
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Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis (SUNY Oneonta)
Jacqueline Bennett · SUNY Oneonta
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Organic Structure and Bonding I · 1.02: Drawing Organic Structures · 1.03: Functional groups and organic nomenclature
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Inorganic Chemistry
LibreTexts (Textmap of Housecroft's text) · LibreTexts
In the contents: 7.4B: Inorganic Acids · 7.4C: Inorganic Bases - Hydroxides · 7.4D: Inorganic Bases - Nitrogen Bases
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Athabasca University Chemistry 350 Organic Chemistry I
Dietmar Kennepohl · Athabasca University
In the contents: 2.10: Organic Acids and Organic Bases · 03: Organic Compounds- Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry · 3.S: Organic Compounds- Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry (Summary)
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CHE 310: Inorganic Chemistry
Hernan Biava · Brevard College
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry · 1.01: What is Inorganic Chemistry · 1.02: Inorganic vs Organic Chemistry
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Organic Chemistry
Morsch et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.00: Introduction to Organic Chemistry · 2.09: Organic Acids and Organic Bases · 03: Organic Compounds- Alkanes and Their Stereochemistry
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CHE200 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Resch)
LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Organic Structure and Bonding I · 1.02: Drawing organic structures · 1.03: Functional groups and organic nomenclature
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Fundamental Organic Chemistry I
LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.07: Organic Acids and Bases · 06: Principles of Stereochemistry · 07: Cyclic Compounds - Stereochemistry of Reactions
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Organic Chemistry III
Layne Morsch et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 25.02: Depicting Carbohydrate Stereochemistry - Fischer Projections · 29: Orbitals and Organic Chemistry - Pericyclic Reactions · 29.03: Stereochemistry of Thermal Electrocyclic Reactions
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Chemical Bonding and Organic Chemistry
Lindsay Blackstock; Sharon Brewer; Bruno Cinel · Thompson Rivers University · 2022
This textbook develops an understanding and historical context of atomic and molecular structure. Topics include electron configurations, periodic trends, chemical bonding, Lewis structures, molecular shapes, valence bond and molecular orbital theory. The organic chemistry portion of the course focuses on the bonding and structure of organic compounds, functional groups, conformational and stereochemical features including applications to biochemistry.
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Organic Chemistry
John McMurry · OpenStax · 2023
John McMurry's Organic Chemistry is renowned as the most clearly written book available for organic chemistry. In John McMurry's words, "I wrote this book because I love writing. I get great pleasure and satisfaction from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly from a new angle, and then explaining it in simple words." In Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition from OpenStax, McMurry continues this tradition while updating scientific discoveries, highlighting new applications, scrutinizing every piece of art, and providing example problems to assist students. Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition continues to meet the scope and sequence of a two-semester organic chemistry course that follows a functional group approach. A highlighted list of changes along with a detailed table of contents and ancillary descriptions can be found on the Instructor and Student resources sections of this page. John McMurry decided to publish Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition under an open license as a tribute to his son, Peter McMurry, who passed away from cystic fibrosis in December 2019. Please click here to learn more about Peter's legacy and to support the fight against cystic fibrosis.
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Organic Chemistry I
Xin Liu · Kwantlen Polytechnic University · 2021
An open textbook that is suitable for the first semester of Organic Chemistry. Basic concepts of the structures and reactivities of organic molecules are covered in this open textbook. Besides the fundamental discussions of organic acids-bases, stereochemistry, IR and NMR, this book also includes the topics of substitution and elimination reactions, radical substitution of alkanes, preparation and reactions of alkenes and alkynes.
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Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis
Tim Soderberg · University of Minnesota Morris · 2016
The traditional approach to teaching Organic Chemistry, taken by most of the textbooks that are currently available, is to focus primarily on the reactions of laboratory synthesis, with much less discussion - in the central chapters, at least - of biological molecules and reactions. This is despite the fact that, in many classrooms, a majority of students are majoring in Biology or Health Sciences rather than in Chemistry, and are presumably taking the course in order to learn about the chemistry that takes place in living things. In an effort to address this disconnect, I have developed a textbook for a two-semester, sophomore-level course in Organic Chemistry in which biological chemistry takes center stage. For the most part, the text covers the core concepts of organic structure, structure determination, and reactivity in the standard order. What is different is the context: biological chemistry is fully integrated into the explanation of central principles, and as much as possible the in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems are taken from the biochemical literature. Many laboratory synthesis reactions are also covered, generally in parallel with their biochemical counterparts - but it is intentionally the biological chemistry that comes first.
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Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis
Tim Soderberg · University of Minnesota Morris · 2016
The traditional approach to teaching Organic Chemistry, taken by most of the textbooks that are currently available, is to focus primarily on the reactions of laboratory synthesis, with much less discussion - in the central chapters, at least - of biological molecules and reactions. This is despite the fact that, in many classrooms, a majority of students are majoring in Biology or Health Sciences rather than in Chemistry, and are presumably taking the course in order to learn about the chemistry that takes place in living things.In an effort to address this disconnect, I have developed a textbook for a two-semester, sophomore-level course in Organic Chemistry in which biological chemistry takes center stage. For the most part, the text covers the core concepts of organic structure, structure determination, and reactivity in the standard order. What is different is the context: biological chemistry is fully integrated into the explanation of central principles, and as much as possible the in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems are taken from the biochemical literature. Many laboratory synthesis reactions are also covered, generally in parallel with their biochemical counterparts - but it is intentionally the biological chemistry that comes first.
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Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques
Lisa Nichols · Lisa Nichols · 2016
This resource was created by Lisa Nichols (chemistry faculty at Butte Community College in Northern California) as a result of an academic sabbatical leave in the Fall-2015 to Spring 2016 term. The target audience are undergraduate students in organic chemistry. In this resource you will find theory and procedures on the main organic lab techniques (chromatography, crystallization, extraction, distillation) as well as general concepts on how to set up and heat apparatuses (see the Table of Contents tab for a more complete listing of topics). All procedures are accompanied by step-by-step pictures, and graphics are heavily utilized throughout the resource.
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Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition
John McMurry, Professor Emeritus · OpenStax, Rice University
John McMurry's Organic Chemistry is renowned as the most clearly written book available for organic chemistry. In John McMurry's words, "I wrote this book because I love writing. I get great pleasure and satisfaction from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly from a new angle, and then explaining it in simple words." In Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition from OpenStax, McMurry continues this tradition while updating scientific discoveries, highlighting new applications, scrutinizing every piece of art, and providing example problems to assist students. Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition continues to meet the scope and sequence of a two-semester organic chemistry course that follows a functional group approach. A highlighted list of changes along with a detailed table of contents and ancillary descriptions can be found on the Instructor and Student resources sections of this page. John McMurry decided to publish Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition under an open license as a tribute to his son, Peter McMurry, who passed away from cystic fibrosis in December 2019. Please click here to learn more about Peter's legacy and to support the fight against cystic fibrosis.
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MatSu College-CHEM A104 Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry
Matthew Prnka · Matanuska-Susitna College
In the contents: 01: Chemistry Matter and Measurement · 1.01: Prelude to Chemistry Matter and Measurement · 1.02: What is Chemistry
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Fundamentals of General Organic and Biological Chemistry
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.01: Chemistry - The Central Science · 11: Nuclear Chemistry · 12: Introduction to Organic Chemistry - Alkanes