Resources

Below, find handouts, recordings, worksheets, and other resources for courses I have taught.

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Advanced Organic Chemistry & Lab Techniques

Handouts

• Processing NMR Spectra Using MestReNova
• MestReNova Settings for Publication Quality Spectra
• List of Resources for the Practicing Organic Chemist

Literature

Data Collections

• A Comprehensive List of TLC Stains (and how to make them)
• Dave Evans’ Exhaustive Table of pKa Values
• Nudelman’s List of NMR Solvent Residual Peaks
• Extended List of Industrially-Preferred Solvent NMR Peaks
• List of Solvent Physical Properties
• Jennifer Shomaker’s List of Common Abbreviations in Organic Chemistry

Useful Papers

• The Chemist’s Companion
• Clark Still’s Initial Report for Flash Column Chromatography
• Zakarian’s Simple Guide to 15-Minute Chromatography
• Paul Knochel’s Method for Organometallci Titrations
• Bernhard Spingler on Crystal Growth for XRD

Perspectives

• Baran on Redox Economy in Synthesis
• Baran on Complexity-Building in Synthesis
• Baran on the Ideal Synthesis
• Hoffman on Retrosynthesis
• Gianatassio and Baran on Retrosynthesis
• Corey on Retrosynthesis

Organic Chemistry I

Handouts

1. Thin Layer Chromatography for Reaction Analysis - TLC Addendum
2. Acid-Base Extraction for Purification of Acidic or Basic Species
3. Column Chromatography for Product Isolation
4. Recrystallization for Compound Purification
5. Reduction using Hydride Sources with Benzil
6. Common Reaction Mechanisms comparing Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination
7. Proton NMR Theory and Analysis
8. Synthesis of Methyl Diantilis from Ethyl Vanillin - Carbon NMR
9. Alkene Hydration and Purification by Distillation
10. Alpha-Pinene Oxide and Intermediate Rearrangements

Lab Lecture Recordings

1. Thin Layer Chromatography
2. Acid-Base Extraction
3. Column Chromatography
4. Recrystallization
5. Hydride Reductions
6. Alkyl Halide Substitutions
7. Proton NMR
8. Methyl Diantylsis Synthesis and Carbon NMR
9. Alkene Hydration and Distillation
10. Alpha-Pinene Oxide Rearrangements

Useful Literature and Data

• Evans’ pKa Table
• Proton and Carbon NMR Solvent Residuals
• Common Proton NMR Peaks
• Common Carbon NMR Peaks

Practice Problems

• Common Reaction Mechanisms
• Resonance and Hybridization
• NMR

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