Outline of organic

chemistry

The following outline is provided as an

overview of and topical guide to organic
chemistry:

Organic chemistry scientic 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]

General topics
History of organic chemistry
IUPAC nomenclature of organic
chemistry
Organic reaction
Organic compound
Organic synthesis
Retrosynthetic analysis
 Drug design

Current trends
Current trends (as of 2008) in organic
chemistry include:

Chiral synthesis
Flow chemistry
Fullerenes
Green chemistry
Microwave chemistry
Microwave spectroscopy

Concepts
Acids and bases
BrnstedLowry acidbase 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
Ultravioletvisible 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
Enones
Esters
Lactones
Imides
 Ketones
Enols
Enolate anions
Enamines
Ethers
Epoxides
Suldes
Imines
Schiff bases
Ketenes
Lipids
Nitriles
Nucleic acids
Organometallic compounds
 Oximes

Reactions
See also List of organic 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
Oppenauer oxidation
Rubottom oxidation
 Swern oxidation
Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
Reduction
Birch reduction
Bouveault-Blanc reduction
CBS reduction
Clemmensen reduction
Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
CoreyItsuno reduction
Fukuyama reduction
Luche reduction
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley
reduction
Rosenmund reduction
 Staudinger reduction
Wolff-Kishner reduction
Pericyclic reaction
Cheletropic reaction
Cycloaddition
Azide-alkyne Huisgen
cycloaddition
1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition
DielsAlder reaction
Nitrone-olen (3+2)
cycloaddition
Staudinger Ketene-Imine
Cycloaddition
Dyotropic reaction
 Electrocyclic reaction
Group transfer reaction
Sigmatropic reaction
Polymerization
Ring-opening metathesis
polymerisation
Rearrangement reaction
BakerVenkataraman
rearrangement
Beckmann rearrangement
Benzilic acid rearrangement
Brook rearrangement
Claisen rearrangement
Cope rearrangement
 Curtius Rearrangement
Fries rearrangement
IrelandClaisen rearrangement
NewmanKwart 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, ISBN0-
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

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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