Outline of organic chemistry

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:

Organic chemistry is the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur.[1][2][3]

## Contents

* 1 General topics
* 2 Current trends
* 3 Concepts
* 4 Chemical species
* 5 Reactions
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## General topics

* History of organic chemistry
* IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry
* Organic reaction
* Organic compound
* Organic synthesis
* Retrosynthetic analysis

## Current trends

Current trends in organic chemistry include (as of 2020):

* Biocatalysis
* Catalysis
* Chemosensors
* Chiral synthesis
* Flow chemistry
* Green chemistry
* Mechanochemistry
* Photoredox catalysis

## Concepts

* Acids and bases
* Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
* Acid dissociation constants
* Lewis acids and bases
* Chemoselectivity
* Molecular structure
* Aromaticity
* Chemical bonding
* Covalent bonding
* Lewis model
* Molecule shapes
* Bond angles
* Resonance structures
* Conjugated systems
* Functional groups
* Stereochemistry
* Conformational isomerism
* Diastereomer
* Stereoisomerism
* Chirality
* Optical activity
* Enantiomers
* Regioselectivity
* Stereoselectivity
* Spectroscopy
* Infrared spectroscopy
* Mass spectrometry
* NMR spectroscopy
* Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy
* Organometallic chemistry

## Chemical species

* Acetals
* Hemiacetals
* Thioacetals
* Ketals
* Alcohols and alkyl halides, diols, thiols
* Alkanes and cycloalkanes
* Alkenes
* Alkynes
* Amines
* Amino acids, peptides, proteins
* Aromatics
* Acetophenones
* Anilines
* Anisoles
* Benzene
* Benzenesulfonic acids
* Benzophenones
* Nitrobenzenes
* Phenols
* Aromatic hydrocarbons
* Toluene
* Xylenes
* m-Xylenes
* o-Xylenes
* p-Xylenes
* Aryl halides
* Carbohydrates
* Sugar
* Carbonyl compounds
* Acid anhydride
* Acyl halides
* Acyl chlorides
* Aldehydes
* Amides
* Lactams
* Carboxylic acids
* Dicarbonyl
* Enones
* Esters
* Lactones
* Imides
* Ketones
* Enols
* Enolate anions
* Enamines
* Ethers
* Epoxides
* Sulfides
* Imines
* Schiff bases
* Ketenes
* Lipids
* Nitriles
* Nucleic acids
* Organometallic compounds
* Oximes

## Reactions

* Addition reaction
* Aldol addition
* Electrophilic addition
* Michael addition
* Mukaiyama aldol addition
* Nucleophilic addition
* Cyclization
* Bergman cyclization
* Nazarov cyclization reaction
* Elimination reaction
* Beta elimination
* Cope elimination
* E1cB elimination reaction
* Hofmann elimination
* Organic redox reaction
* Cannizzaro reaction
* Oxidation
* Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
* Corey-Kim oxidation
* Dess-Martin oxidation
* Fleming-Tamao oxidation
* Jones oxidation
* Nucleophilic epoxidation
* Oppenauer oxidation
* Prilezhaev reaction
* Rubottom oxidation
* Schmidt reaction
* Swern oxidation
* Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
* Reduction
* Birch reduction
* Bouveault-Blanc reduction
* CBS reduction
* Clemmensen reduction
* Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
* Corey–Itsuno reduction
* Fukuyama reduction
* Luche reduction
* Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
* Rosenmund reduction
* Staudinger reduction
* Wolff-Kishner reduction
* Pericyclic reaction
* Cheletropic reaction
* Cycloaddition
* 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition
* Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
* Diels–Alder reaction
* Nitrone-olefin (3+2) cycloaddition
* Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition
* Dyotropic reaction
* Electrocyclic reaction
* Group transfer reaction
* Sigmatropic reaction
* Polymerization
* Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation
* Rearrangement reaction
* Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement
* Beckmann rearrangement
* Benzilic acid rearrangement
* Brook rearrangement
* Claisen rearrangement
* Cope rearrangement
* Curtius rearrangement
* Fries rearrangement
* Ireland–Claisen rearrangement
* Newman–Kwart rearrangement
* Overman rearrangement
* Oxy-Cope rearrangement
* Pinacol rearrangement
* 1,2-Wittig rearrangement
* 2,3-Wittig rearrangement
* Substitution reaction
* Electrophilic aromatic substitution
* Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
* Electrophilic substitution
* Nucleophilic substitution
* SN1 reaction
* SN2 reaction
* Vicarious nucleophilic substitution

## See also

* Important publications in organic chemistry
* List of organic reactions

## References

1. ↑ Robert T. Morrison, Robert N. Boyd, and Robert K. Boyd, Organic Chemistry, 6th edition (Benjamin Cummings, 1992, ISBN:0-13-643669-2) - this is "Morrison and Boyd", a classic textbook
2. ↑ John D. Roberts, Marjorie C. Caserio, Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry,(W. A. Benjamin, Inc. ,1964) - another classic textbook
3. ↑ Richard F. and Sally J. Daley, Organic Chemistry, Online organic chemistry textbook. Ochem4free.info

## External links

| At Wikiversity you can learn more and teach others about organic chemistry at:

The Department of organic chemistry

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* Organic Chemistry Lectures, Videos and Text
* Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
* Organic Families and Their Functional Groups
* Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry - multimedia teaching tools

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