Organic chemistry may cover many concepts and topics, but it’s all about the reactions and mechanisms. It’s not so scary at first, think about the simple acid/base deprotonation, an alkene reaction here, another there. Before you know it, you’re drowning in dozens upon dozens of reactions! You’re asked to ‘memorize’ each one, to know what every […]
A Simple Approach to Retrosynthesis in Organic Chemistry
In Organic Chemistry, synthesis and retrosynthesis go hand in hand. While there isn’t a clear distinction, I like to think of synthesis as forward thinking and retrosynthesis as the reverse. Synthesis is a topic that is typically introduced in Organic Chemistry 1, right after studying alkyne reactions. You’ll be utilizing it again and again as […]
