Online Videos –
Organic Chemistry –Arenes
These videos of our regular classes are available to our regular class students.
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.
11 Arenes (Hydrocarbons) (Week 1)
Video 1-1
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The structure of benzene – delocalisation and resonance
Video 1-4
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Reactivity of benzene
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Electrophilic substitution mechanism
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Nitration (Q5, Q6)
Video 1-2
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Resonance stability (Q1)
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Structure of benzene (Q2, Q3)
Video 1-5
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Halogenation (Q7, Q8)
Video 1-3
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Nomenclature of arenes (Q4)
Video 1-6
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Friedel-Crafts alkylation (Q9)
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Electrophilic substitution practice questions (Q10, Q11, Q12)
Video 1-7
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Aromaticity (enrichement) (Q13, Q14)
11 Arenes (Hydrocarbons) (Week 2)
Video 2-1
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Reactions of methylbenzene
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Free radical substitution of alkyl side-chain (Q15)
Video 2-4
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Substituent effects in electrophilic substitution
Video 2-7
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Integrated question on electrophilic substitution, and synthesis (Q26)
Video 2-2
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Oxidation of alkyl side-chain (Q16, Q17)
Video 2-5
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Practice question on electrophilic substitution (Q19)
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Synthesis question involving electrophilic substitution (Q20)
Video 2-3
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Electrophilic substitution on methylbenzene (Q18)
Video 2-6
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Practice questions on electrophilic substitution (Q21 to Q25)
Video 2-8
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Integrated question on energetics and resonance stability (Q27)