Foundations

Atomic structure.

Everything in this course comes down to a handful of outermost electrons. Let's find them.

Video lesson · 19 min

Atomic Structure for Organic Chemistry (Valence Electrons, Octet Rule)

Posted 7 Oct 2026 on our YouTube channel. The player loads from YouTube only when you press play.

Chapters 11
  1. 0:00 Start here
  2. 0:52 The three particles
  3. 2:17 Isotopes and mass number
  4. 3:41 Shells and valence electrons
  5. 6:49 The octet rule
  6. 9:45 Ions: cations and anions
  7. 10:56 Transfer or share
  8. 14:10 Carbocations and carbanions
  9. 16:24 Recap
  10. 17:02 Practice problems
  11. 18:56 Next: orbitals
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