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Yale Organic Chemistry I (2008)

CHEM 125a · Freshman Organic Chemistry I · Prof. J. Michael McBride · Fall 2008 · Open Yale Courses

Sessions (37)

• 01How Do You Know?
• 02Force Laws, Lewis Structures and Resonance
• 03Double Minima, Earnshaw's Theorem and Plum-Puddings
• 04Coping with Smallness and Scanning Probe Microscopy
• 05X-Ray Diffraction
• 06Seeing Bonds by Electron Difference Density
• 07Quantum Mechanical Kinetic Energy
• 08One-Dimensional Wave Functions
• 09Chladni Figures and One-Electron Atoms
• 10Reality and the Orbital Approximation
• 11Orbital Correction and Plum-Pudding Molecules
• 12Overlap and Atom-Pair Bonds
• 13Overlap and Energy-Match
• 14Checking Hybridization Theory with XH3
• 15Chemical Reactivity: SOMO, HOMO, and LUMO
• 16Recognizing Functional Groups
• 17Reaction Analogies and Carbonyl Reactivity
• 18Amide, Carboxylic Acid and Alkyl Lithium
• 19Oxygen and the Chemical Revolution (Beginning to 1789)
• 20Rise of the Atomic Theory (1790-1805)
• 21Berzelius to Liebig and Wöhler (1805-1832)
• 22Radical and Type Theories (1832-1850)
• 23Valence Theory and Constitutional Structure (1858)
• 24Determining Chemical Structure by Isomer Counting (1869)
• 25Models in 3D Space (1869-1877); Optical Isomers
• 26Van't Hoff's Tetrahedral Carbon and Chirality
• 27Communicating Molecular Structure in Diagrams and Words
• 28Stereochemical Nomenclature; Racemization and Resolution
• 29Preparing Single Enantiomers and the Mechanism of Optical Rotation
• 30Esomeprazole as an Example of Drug Testing and Usage
• 31Preparing Single Enantiomers and Conformational Energy
• 32Stereotopicity and Baeyer Strain Theory
• 33Conformational Energy and Molecular Mechanics
• 34Sharpless Oxidation Catalysts and the Conformation of Cycloalkanes
• 35Understanding Molecular Structure and Energy through Standard Bonds
• 36Bond Energies, the Boltzmann Factor and Entropy
• 37Potential Energy Surfaces, Transition State Theory and Reaction Mechanism