What comes to mind when you think of alcohol? Probably alcoholic drinks like beer or wine. But in organic chemistry alcohols are an important and versatile family of compounds. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll use...

Alkene Epoxidation: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples

Anti-Dihydroxylation: Theory, Mechanism, Examples, and Biological Applications

An introduction to epoxides and their reactions.

Melatonin Catabolism 1

It's the Ritter reaction! Named after its inventor, John Ritter. No, not the actor from Three's Company. A different guy. This is a great way to go from an alcohol or alkene to an amine. How does it work? What are chemists doing with...

For this one we will have to know what epoxides do! It's a pretty neat little mechanism.

We've got a terminal alkyne, and we're gonna do some stuff to it. What will we get? What's that Grignard reagent gonna do? Be careful!

Need some organic chemistry practice? Here's a tricky synthesis to try!

Here, I present one of the most important mechanisms for the carcinogenic properties of cigarette smoking. P450-oxidized metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene damage DNA and can induce mutations leading to the uncontrolled cell growth associated...