Organic Chemistry

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe organometallic compounds including common types of organometallic compounds such as organolithium and organomagnesium compounds, the process of transmetallation, the Heck Reaction, and alkene metathesis.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain how pericyclic reactions occur as a result of a cyclic reorganization of electrons including the three types of pericyclic reactions, molecular orbitals, orbital symmetry, cycloaddition reactions, sigmatropic rearrangements, and reactions in biological systems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain the reactions of carbonyl compounds that take place at the Alpha-carbon including halogenation, intramolecular condensations and intramolecular aldol additions, the Robinson annulation, decarboxylation, synthesis, and carbon-carbon bonds.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the substitution reactions of alkanes including the conditions needed to generate radicals, radical substitution reactions of alkenes, and radical addition reactions of alkenes.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the reactions of benzene and substituted benzenes including benzene's aromaticity, substituents, arenediazonium salts, and nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how polymers synthesized by chemists are synthetic including the physical properties that make them useful components for thousands of different materials available.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe how the family of compounds called alkenes reacts and the different kinds of products formed from the reactions including the stereochemistry of these reactions.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the nomenclature, physical properties, and structure of alkynes including how alkynes react and the different kinds of products formed from the reactions, and the techniques chemists use to design the synthesis of organic compounds.