Organic Chemistry
Glossary
502 terms from all 23 chapters, in plain words. Each one links to the section that teaches it.
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A
- A-value
- acetal
- acetoacetic ester synthesis
- acetylide ion
- achiral
- acid anhydride
- acid chloride
- acid dissociation constant
- activating group
- activation energy
- acyl group
- acylium ion
- 1,2-addition and 1,4-addition
- addition polymer
- addition reaction
- adduct
- alcohol
- aldehyde
- aldol condensation
- aldol reaction
- aldose
- alkane
- alkene
- alkoxide
- alkyl group
- alkyl halide
- alkyne
- allene
- allylic
- alpha carbon
- alpha cleavage
- alpha hydrogen
- α-amino acid
- α-halogenation
- α,β-unsaturated carbonyl
- ambident nucleophile
- amide
- amine
- amphipathic
- amphoteric
- angle strain
- aniline
- anion
- anomeric carbon
- anomers
- anti addition
- anti conformation
- anti-Markovnikov
- anti-periplanar
- antiaromatic
- antibonding orbital
- arenium ion
- ARIO
- aromatic
- atomic number
- atropisomers
- Aufbau principle
- axial
- azo coupling
B
- backside attack
- Baeyer–Villiger oxidation
- base pairing
- base peak
- Beer–Lambert law
- bent geometry
- benzene
- benzyl group
- benzylic
- benzyne
- beta hydrogen
- β-dicarbonyl compound
- Birch reduction
- blocking group
- boat conformation
- Boc
- bond dipole
- bond dissociation energy
- Bredt's rule
- bromonium ion
- Brønsted–Lowry acid
- Brønsted–Lowry base
- Bürgi–Dunitz angle
C
- ¹³C NMR
- Cahn–Ingold–Prelog rules
- carbamate
- carbanion
- carbinol carbon
- carbinolamine
- carbocation
- carbohydrate
- carbonyl group
- carbonyl hydrate
- carboxylate
- carboxylic acid
- carboxylic acid derivative
- catalyst
- catalytic hydrogenation
- cation
- Cbz
- chain transfer
- chain-growth polymerization
- chair conformation
- chemical shift
- chemically equivalent
- chemoselectivity
- chiral
- chromophore
- cis and trans
- Claisen condensation
- Clemmensen reduction
- concerted
- condensation polymer
- condensed formula
- configuration
- conformation
- conformational analysis
- conjugate acid
- conjugate acid–base pair
- conjugate addition
- conjugate base
- conjugation
- constitutional isomers
- convergent synthesis
- Cope elimination
- copolymer
- core electrons
- coupling constant
- covalent bond
- cross-coupling
- cross-link
- crossed aldol
- crown ether
- crystallinity
- Curtius rearrangement
- curved arrow
- cyanohydrin
- cycloaddition
- cycloalkane
D
- D/L notation
- dative bond
- DCC
- decarboxylation
- degenerate orbitals
- degree of polymerization
- degree of unsaturation
- dehydration
- dehydrohalogenation
- delocalization
- denaturation
- depolymerization
- DEPT
- Dess–Martin periodinane
- diastereomers
- diastereotopic
- 1,3-diaxial interaction
- diazonium salt
- DIBAL-H
- Dieckmann condensation
- Diels–Alder reaction
- diene
- dienophile
- dihedral angle
- dipole moment
- dipole–dipole forces
- directing effects
- disconnection
- dissolving-metal reduction
- disulfide bond
- double bond
E
- E/Z system
- E1 reaction
- E1cb
- E2 reaction
- eclipsed conformation
- Edman degradation
- elastomer
- electron configuration
- electron group
- electronegativity
- electrophile
- electrophilic aromatic substitution
- electrophoresis
- elimination
- enamine
- enantiomeric excess
- enantiomers
- enantiotopic
- endo product
- energy diagram
- enol
- enolate
- epimers
- epoxide
- equatorial
- ester
- ether
- exergonic
- exothermic
- expanded octet
- extraction
F
G
H
- haloform reaction
- halogens
- halohydrin
- Hammond postulate
- hard and soft acids and bases
- Haworth projection
- heat of hydrogenation
- Heck reaction
- Hell–Volhard–Zelinsky reaction
- hemiacetal
- heterolytic cleavage
- Hofmann elimination
- Hofmann product
- Hofmann rearrangement
- HOMO
- homolytic cleavage
- homotopic
- Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons reaction
- Hückel's rule
- Hund's rule
- hybrid orbital
- hybridization
- hydration
- hydride
- hydroboration–oxidation
- hydrogen bond
- hydrogenolysis
- hydrophobic effect
- hyperconjugation
I
J
K
L
M
- m/z
- M+2 peak
- magnetic anisotropy
- major contributor
- malonic ester synthesis
- Markovnikov's rule
- mass number
- mass spectrometry
- McLafferty rearrangement
- mechanism
- Meisenheimer complex
- meso compound
- meta director
- micelle
- Michael addition
- migratory aptitude
- molecular ion
- molecular orbital
- monomer
- monosaccharide
- multiplying prefixes
- multistep synthesis
- mutarotation
N
O
P
- parent chain
- partial charge
- Pauli exclusion principle
- PBr₃
- PCC
- peptide bond
- pericyclic reaction
- peroxide effect
- peroxyacid
- phase
- phenol
- phenoxide
- phenyl group
- phosphodiester bond
- phospholipid
- pi bond
- Pinnick oxidation
- pKa
- pKaH
- plane of symmetry
- plasticizer
- polar aprotic solvent
- polar covalent bond
- polar protic solvent
- polarizability
- polyamide
- polycarbonate
- polyester
- polymer
- polypeptide
- polyurethane
- primary structure
- primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
- principal characteristic group
- prochiral
- protecting group
- proton transfer
- purine
- pyranose
- pyridine
- pyrrole
Q
R
- R/S configuration
- racemic mixture
- racemization
- radical
- radical chain mechanism
- radical halogenation
- radical initiator
- rate-determining step
- Re and Si faces
- reducing sugar
- reduction
- reductive amination
- reductive elimination
- regioselective
- repeat unit
- resolution
- resonance energy
- resonance hybrid
- resonance structures
- retron
- retrosynthesis
- ring flip
- ring strain
- Robinson annulation
S
- s-character
- s-cis and s-trans
- Sandmeyer reaction
- saponification
- saturated
- Schiemann reaction
- secondary structure
- shielded and deshielded
- 1,2-shift
- side-chain oxidation
- sigma bond
- silyl ether
- skeletal structure
- SN1 reaction
- SN2 reaction
- SOCl₂
- solid-phase peptide synthesis
- solvation
- solvolysis
- Sonogashira coupling
- sp hybridization
- sp² hybridization
- sp³ hybridization
- specific rotation
- spin–spin splitting
- staggered conformation
- step-growth polymerization
- stereocenter
- stereoisomers
- stereoselective
- stereospecific
- steric hindrance
- steric strain
- steroid
- Stille coupling
- strong acid
- substituent
- substrate
- suffix
- sulfonate ester
- sulfonation
- Suzuki coupling
- Swern oxidation
- syn dihydroxylation
- synthon
T
- tacticity
- tautomers
- terminal alkyne
- terpene
- tert-butyl group
- tertiary structure
- tetrahedral
- tetrahedral intermediate
- thermodynamic enolate
- thermodynamic product
- thermoplastic
- thermoset
- thiol
- TMS
- Tollens' test
- torsional strain
- transesterification
- transition state
- transmetalation
- triglyceride
- trigonal planar
- trigonal pyramidal
- triple bond