Organic chemistry - Crunch Chemistry

Aromatic, aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons

It’s always important to start at the beginning! There is so much terminology in organic chemistry, from the naming of

This is the second modern theory of bonding, the first being valence bond theory. In molecular orbital theory covalent bonds

Our familiar model of covalent bonding is largely based on the Lewis model, with atoms sharing pairs of bonding electrons

Mass spectrometry is a really powerful tool for helping us to piece together the structure of an organic molecule. Ionisation

Halogenoalkanes undergo substitution reactions in the presence of a nucleophile such as the hydroxide ion, OH–, but most good nucleophiles

Can we predict the trend in reactivity of fluoromethane, chloromethane, bromomethane and iodomethane based on the information above? the C-F

The mechanism for this reaction is nucleophilic substitution Hydroxide ions act as nucleophiles (a species with a negative charge or