Carbon-carbon double bonds are pretty common in nature, but triple bonds between carbons, called alkynes, are not. When alkynes do pop up in nature, it’s usually in a compound that’s toxic to humans, however, we can synthesize alkynes...

If you’ve been paying attention so far in this series, you’ve probably heard of benzene. This molecule is flat, cyclic, and belongs to a special class of compounds known as aromatics. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry,...

In this episode, Hank talks about Network solids and Carbon and how you can actually create a Diamond from plain old Carbon... well, YOU probably can't unless you own a bunch of elephants. It's a long story. BUT, within you will...

Resonance is a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules where a single Lewis formula cannot express the bonding. To understand resonance in chemistry, you need to first understand covalent bonds, sigma and pi...

Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part Three)

An introduction to the diels-alder reaction.

It gives idea about the nomenclature, structure, properties, preparation methods, substitution reaction, meta-para-ortho directing functional groups.

It's time to check out Group 14 on the periodic table, the carbon group. This includes carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!

Now that we have sufficiently covered cycloaddition reactions, we can move on to the next type of pericyclic reactions. That would be sigmatropic shifts. This includes important synthetic techniques like the Cope rearrangement, Oxy-Cope...

Which ones are aromatic? Take your pick! Don't forget about Huckel's rule.

Harder examples using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog convention.

What is it for a molecule to be aromatic? Where was this term derived and what properties does it bestow upon a molecule?

Looking at the hydrogenation of alkynes.