Instructional Video13:36
Crash Course

Synthesis, Distillation, & Recrystallization: Crash Course Organic Chemistry

12th - Higher Ed
We’re going back to the lab! So far we’ve learned some important lab techniques that organic chemists might use day to day, like chromatography and proton NMR, but there are even more to learn. In this episode of Crash Course Organic...
Instructional Video12:05
Crash Course

More EAS & Benzylic Reactions: Crash Course Organic Chemistry

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve already learned a lot about electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) and benzene, but guess what? There’s even more to learn! In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry we’ll revisit our old friends the Friedel-Crafts...
Instructional Video6:11
Professor Dave Explains

Fries Rearrangement

9th - Higher Ed
Ooh, french fries! No wait, not those fries. It's actually pronounced like "frees", and it's a super cool rearrangement pertaining to aryl esters. Let's check out the mechanism, the regiochemistry, and some applications.
Instructional Video4:25
Professor Dave Explains

Clemmensen Reduction

9th - Higher Ed
An introduction to Clemmensen reduction.
Instructional Video11:15
Professor Dave Explains

Organic Chemistry Synthesis Challenge 7

9th - Higher Ed
Need some organic chemistry practice? Here's a tricky synthesis to try!
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reactions of Benzene: Friedel Crafts Acylation

9th - 10th
Shows a mechanism for creating an aldehyde or a ketone through Friedel-Crafts Acylation. [11:18]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Friedel Crafts Acylation

11th - 12th
Explore the Friedel-Crafts Acylation in this video lecture. Investigate the mechanism of acylation where a strong Lewis acid cataysizes a acylation of aromatic rings with an acyl chloride. [9:11]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Reactions of Benzene: Friedel Crafts Acylation Addendum

9th - 10th
An addendum to a previous video on Friedel-Crafts Acylation. [0:50]