Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry

Educational Materials for Organic Chemistry at Michigan State University

• Integrated Reaction Roadmap
• S_N2 Reaction Page - Also available through the reaction roadmap.
• Thermodynamic Vs. Kinetic Reaction Control Tutorial - Supported by the National Science Foundation.
• Animations - Molecular conformation, vibration, and structure
• Animated Infra-Red Spectroscopy (AIRS) - A growing collection of infra-red spectra with associated animated vibrational modes. Supported by the National Science Foundation.
• Acid-Base Equilibria Tutorial
• Cycloalkane Conformations
• Nucleophilic Substitution Dry Laboratory Exercise
• Carbohydrate Structure Exercises
• Alkane Conformations - a detailed look at the conformations and energetics of ethane and butane.
• Practice Problems:
  • Alkenes
  • Alkynes
  • Dienes
  • Alcohols
  • Alkyl Halides
  • Ethers
  • Benzene and derivatives
  • Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
  • Mass Spectroscopy
  • NMR
  • Spectroscopy
  • Aldehydes and Ketones
  • Enolates
  • Carbohydrates
  • Carboxylic Acids
  • Amines
  • Nucleic Acids
  • Amino Acids and Proteins
  • Lipids
• Computers in Drug Design - an interactive workshop from Science, Engineering, and Technology Day, 1997 (October 20).
• Computers in Drug Design - an interactive workshop from the Great Lakes College Chemistry Conference at Michigan State University, April 5th, 1997

Supplementary Materials for Organic Chemistry at The University of Arizona

• First stereochemistry tutorial
• Second stereochemistry tutorial
• Third stereochemistry tutorial
• The Stereochem Game

Organic Chemistry Course Web Pages at Michigan State University

• CEM 143 - Survey of Organic Chemistry
• CEM 251 - Organic Chemistry I (non-majors)
• CEM 252 - Organic Chemistry II (non-majors)
• CEM 351 - Organic Chemistry I (majors)
• CEM 352 - Organic Chemistry II (majors)

Information about viewing various types of information on these servers:

• Using plugins: Appropriate plugins are strongly recommended for viewing movies and molecules.
• Obtaining and using Rasmol: Rasmol allows viewing of molecules with user control of rotation, rendering, and scale. It can be used as an alternative to the Chime plugin which allows the same operations.