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Crossed Aldol Reactions, Enones, and Conjugate Addition: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Insects can communicate with each other about all kinds of things, but instead of using words, they use… you guessed it! Organic Chemistry! Insects can send signals to each other by secreting compounds, and one such compound used by...
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The Aldol and Claisen Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Organic chemistry is a great workout for your brain, and to keep its energy up, your brain needs glucose. To maintain blood glucose levels, our bodies go through a process called gluconeogenesis, which involves the important type of...
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Enols and Enolates - Reactivity, Halogenation, and Alkylation: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
You may know that cows produce methane, which is a big concern when it comes to global heating, but did you know that organic chemistry provides a potential solution to this problem? Feeding cows small amounts of red seaweed can greatly...
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More Organic Nomenclature Heteroatom Functional Groups - Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Oxygen is pretty dang amazing! Some of the most intensely studied functional groups in organic chemistry have oxygen atoms. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we're building on the last episode's discussion of...
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Carboxylic Acid Derivatives & Hydrolysis Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Esters have a wide range of uses, from giving perfumes and colognes their fragrances, to preventing diseases like scurvy. Vitamin C, that scurvy preventing antioxidant, is derived from carboxylic acids, a class of organic compounds we’ve...
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Hydrocarbon Derivatives - Crash Course Chemistry
Functional groups? Functional groups within functional groups? Hank takes today's Crash Course video to discuss some confusing ideas about Hydrocarbon Derivatives, but then makes it all make more sense.
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An Overview of Aldehydes and Ketones: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Ketones and aldehydes are all around and inside us, from the strong smelling component of nail polish remover, acetone, to hormones in our bodies, to drug treatments for allergies, COVID-19, and even cancer! We’ve already learned a bit...
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Aldehyde and Ketone Reactions - Hydrates, Acetals, & Imines: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
We’ve already learned the basics of carbonyl chemistry and talked about how we can synthesize aldehydes and ketones, but there’s still so much more to learn, like the role carbonyl groups play in reactions involving sedatives! In this...
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Urea
An organic compound containing nitrogen that plays an important role in animal metabolism, and is excreted in the urine of mammals. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and...
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Organocuprates (Gilman Reagents)
We've seen organometallic reagents featuring magnesium, as well as lithium, so how about copper? These are called organocuprates, or sometimes Gilman reagents. What do they look like? How do we make them? What do we do? Let's take a look!
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Reactions of Beta-Dicarbonyl Compounds
Looking at the usage of beta-dicarbonyl compounds.
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Cleavage of Carbon-Carbon Bonds With Periodic Acid
Just as important as learning reactions that generate carbon-carbon bonds, we need ways to cleave carbon-carbon bonds as well.This is useful for splitting a molecule up into fragments, or transforming a cyclic molecule into a linear...
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Beta Oxidation of a Saturated Fatty Acid
In this video, we discuss the primary beta oxidation pathway for saturated fatty acids with an even number of carbon atoms. We also discuss the NADH and FADH2 yield.
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The Haloform Reaction
Once again, we will be interested in learning about reactions that break carbon-carbon bonds, as this will allow us to perform necessary transformations on substrates. The haloform reaction is one such reaction, and it is commonly used...
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Carbenes Part 2: Cyclopropanation, C-H Insertion, and the Bamford-Stevens Reaction
In the previous tutorial we learned about carbenes. So now that we understand their properties, we are ready to learn about what we can do with them. Three major uses of carbenes involve cyclopropanation, C-H insertion, and the...
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Favorskii Rearrangement
It's the Favorskii rearrangement, a method of ring contraction! This reaction utilizes cyclopropane intermediates and is super neat. Need to make your ring one carbon smaller? Try the Favorskii rearrangement!
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Asparagine, Aspartate Catabolism to Oxaloacetate
Asparagine, Aspartate Catabolism to Oxaloacetate
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Introduction to Reductions & Sodium Borohydride (Theory & Problems)
Introduction to Reductions & Sodium Borohydride (Theory & Problems)
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Carbohydrate Structure Aldopentoses and Ketopentoses
Carbohydrate Structure Aldopentoses and Ketopentoses
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Lipid Biosynthesis | Fatty Acid Biosynthesis 3: Fatty Acid Synthase
Lipid Biosynthesis | Fatty Acid Biosynthesis 3: Fatty Acid Synthase
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Caffeine Demethylase Mechanism
In this video, we discuss Caffeine Demethylase Mechanism
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Aldol Condensation
Introducing aldol condensation and enolate chemistry in general.