On-Line Help for Organic Chemistry Students - Prof. Howard Black

Welcome! This site has been designed for organic chemistry students in any semester (including CHM 2430, Survey of Organic Chemistry) who are interested in additional material to help them achieve the conceptual understanding so vital to mastering this fascinating field.
The "Specific Areas" were chosen from topics which often present a challenge, while the rest of the site is self- explanatory - the "Class Slides" and "Review/Tutorial" areas feature excellent presentations of material from other schools and professors; the two "electronic flash card" sites are not only really helpful in reaction review, but are actually fun; and the Comprehensive Sites have it all: summaries, reviews, practice questions, etc.
This will always be a work in progress. If you know of a great site that should be linked here, or you find a dead link, please let me know (homepage - e-mail). Meanwhile, I hope you use this site to its full advantage, and that it helps you gain the conceptual understanding so essential to the mastering of organic chemistry.

Good luck! - Dr. Howard Black (homepage - e-mail)

Test Bank from UCLA (Dr. B. Luceigh) - four different organic courses - exams, mid-terms, finals - blank exams and answers in separate files - really good review. Since these courses are numbered, here are UCLA chemistry course descriptions.

Collections of Class Slides/Files

Columbia University - Based on Carey, 5th Ed. (Table of Contents)

Western Washington Univ. - complete resource pages for Prof. Pavia's Org. Chem. 1 , 2, and 3 - superb PowerPoint slide shows on various topics.

Review/Tutorial/Comprehensive Sites

On-Line "Flash Cards"

Organic WebCards - from Colby; extremely versatile! Choose which part of rxns. (SM, reagent(s), pdts.) you need to supply; can also choose comprehensive review of all fnc. grps.
Electronic Flash Cards - from OSU - excellent! Select from ca. 20 fnc. grps., then predict product(s). Order of cards is shuffled each time the page is relaoded.
Reaction Flash Cards - a Fox & Whitesell project, similar to the OSU set, but incomplete as faras number of chapters covered.

Interactive Tutorials from Boise State Univ. - comprehensive, excellent site; several components are on this page.
Kinetic versus Thermodynamic Reaction Control Tutorial - four modules plus a summary - extraordinary

Comprehensive Sites

Organic Chemistry Home Page from Towson Univ. - uses McMurry! Quiz/exam keys, rxn. summaries, syllbi for lectures and labs, great "enrichment materials" (like my "Special Sections", more - super!
Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry from Mich. State (Dr. Abby Parrill) - practice problems, special pages (animations, conformations, computers in drug design, etc.), organic chem. course home pages,...really excellent!
Organic Chemistry On-Line Tutorial Version 1.0 (UIC) - reviews, tutorials on structure/Bonding, Spectroscopy, Stereochemistry, and Fnc. Grp. Reactions...wonderful!
a superlative review site, organized specifically for those with the MCAT in your future

Last Update: 09/24/03

Nomenclature Introduction to Organic Nomenclature IUPAC Official Nomenclature Rules IUPAC Glossary by Fnc. Grp.	Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions Substitution vs. Elimination Reactions Nucleophilic Substitution Dry Laboratory SN1 vs. SN2 - great movie Colby College
Orbitals/Resonance Orbitals - interactive movie Colby College Resonance from EIU (THB) Resonance from Boise State	Stereochemistry Glossary of Stereochemical Terms Chirality (good disc. plus movie) Colby College - Shockwave Animated Stereochemistry Colby College - Chime Stereochemistry Help Stereochemistry from UIC Conformation (eight movies)
Spectroscopy On-Line Tutorial from UIC Animated Infra-Red Spectroscopy (AIRS) Basics of NMR (great - much phys. chem.) NMR Spectroscopy (more in-depth) 1H-NMR Introduction - Wake Forest NMR Spectroscopy - Worcester Poltech NMR Tutorial - Hartford - nice use of frames	Reaction Mechanisms Animated Reaction Mechanisms Colby College Organic Reaction Mechanism Movies "Curly Arrows" - how to draw electron arrows

Practice Problems from MSU huge no. of questions, divided by topic, color-coded for difficulty.	Practice Problems from Boise State - 20 question sets, sorted by fnc. grp. or spectroscopy method (NMR, IR, etc.).
More Practice Problems from Boise State - more advanced question sets, grouped by reaction type.	Multiple Choice Problems #1 - over 50 random questions - excellent review.
Organic Reaction Quizzes and Summaries - each fnc. grp. has rxn. and synthesis reviews, followed by two quizzes	Multiple Choice Problems #2 - another 54 random questions - excellent review.
Synthesis Problems - not overly challenging; a great way to start developing a feel for synthesis