MCAT OChem Fundamental Toolkit (Part 1/2)
Channel: Charlie's MCAT Study Hall
Date: 2022-04-06

Organic chemistry applies a fundamental set of rules to the study of organic molecules. This video is designed to begin building your universal OChem toolkit that you will use for characterizing molecules (e.g. stability, reactivity, spectroscopy) and reactions on the MCAT.

List of topics:
0:00 - Intro
1:22 - Degrees of unsaturation
11:45 - Inductive effect (e- donating and withdrawing groups)
19:18 - Carbocation stability
23:52 - Carbanion stability
31:26 - Resonance (e- donating and withdrawing groups)
37:42 - Nucleophilicity
52:10 - Electrophilicity
56:34 - Leaving group ability
1:04:38 - Ring strain
1:08:35 - Common MCAT pKa values
1:14:22 - Isomerism
1:15:06 - Structural/constitutional isomers
1:17:43 - Newman projections
1:23:26 - Chair conformers
1:33:41 - Stereoisomerism
1:35:30 - Identifying chiral centers/stereocenters