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Online Videos –

Introduction to Organic Chemistry

These videos of our regular classes are available to our regular class students.

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Each lesson is broken up into a few videos. In the description below each video, you can look for the content or question that you would like to view or revisit.

08  Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Week 1)
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Video 1-1

  • Overview and introduction

  • Determining oxidation number of carbons in compounds (Q1, Q2, Q3)

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Video 1-2

  • sp3 hybridisation

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Video 1-3

  • sp2 hybridisation (Q4)

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Video 1-4

  • sp hybridisation

  • Practice questions on hybridisation (Q5, Q6, Q7)

  • Additional practice questions (Q8, Q9, Q10)

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Video 1-5

  • Formulae of organic compounds

  • Drawing skeletal formulae (Q11)

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Video 1-6

  • Practice questions on shapes and bonding in organic molecules (Q12, Q13, Q14)

08  Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Week 2)
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Video 2-1

  • Aliphatic, alicyclic and aromatic compounds

  • Functional groups and homologous series (Q15, Q16)

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Video 2-4

  • Integrated practice question on combustion data, isomerism, and chemical bonding (Q22)

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Video 2-2

  • IUPAC rules of nomenclature for organic compounds (Q17, Q18)

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Video 2-5

  • Cis-trans isomerism (Q23, Q24, Q25)

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Video 2-3

  • Constitutional isomerism: chain, positional and functional group isomerism (Q19, Q20, Q21)

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Video 2-6

  • Physical properties of cis-trans isomers

  • Drawing cis-trans isomers with more than one C=C bond

08  Introduction to Organic Chemistry (Week 3)
J1A-24 Introduction to Organic Chemistry
Video 3-1

  • Enantiomerism

  • Chiral carbons (Q28, Q29)

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Video 3-2

  • Enantiomers

  • R, S notations (enrichment)

  • Drawing of enantiomers (Q30)

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Video 3-3

  • Properties of enantiomers

  • Optical activity, racemic mixtures, and plane-polarised light (Q31, Q32, Q33)

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Video 3-4

  • Molecules with more than one chiral centre (diastereomers) (Q34)

  • Meso compounds (Q35)

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Video 3-5

  • Determining maximum number of stereoisomers (Q36 to Q41)

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Video 3-6

  • Organic reaction terminology: homolytic fission, heterolytic fission, degree of substitution

  • Types of organic reactions (Q42, Q43)

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Video 3-7

  • Types of organic species: electrophiles, nucleophiles, free radicals (Q44 to Q47)

  • Organic reactivity terminology: delocalisation, electronic effects, steric hindrance

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