Reactivity and Mechanisms Video Tutorials

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Chemical Thermodynamics Revisited

Homolytic vs Heterolytic Bond Cleavage

https://youtu.be/1UCGRWwEAN8 Links to an external site.

 

Endothermic vs. Exothermic

https://youtu.be/JRIm_a2LDPM Links to an external site.

 

Using Bond Dissociation Energies to Predict ΔH

https://youtu.be/0mLFSDId6pQ Links to an external site.

 

A Brief Description of Entropy

https://youtu.be/YM-uykVfq_E Links to an external site.

 

Gibbs Free Energy

https://youtu.be/DPjMPeU5OeM Links to an external site.

 

Gibbs Energy and the Equilibrium Constant

https://youtu.be/U5-3wnY04gU Links to an external site.

 

 

 

Kinetics and Energy Diagrams

Chemical Kinetics

https://youtu.be/7qOFtL3VEBc Links to an external site.

 

Factors Affecting the Rate Constant of a Reaction

https://youtu.be/Ec7po4SZVXE Links to an external site.

 

Collision Theory and Energy Diagrams

https://youtu.be/1iAxhc6EflI Links to an external site.

 

The Hammond Postulate

https://youtu.be/AYi1WIuKYzI Links to an external site.

 

Nucleophiles and Electrophiles

https://youtu.be/O33b6B12YxI Links to an external site.

 

Identifying Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Centers

https://youtu.be/Z4F88tTx9-8 Links to an external site.

 

Nucleophiles: A Closer Look

https://youtu.be/_deK7vxHIao Links to an external site.

 

What Makes a GOOD Nucleophile?  Part 1

https://youtu.be/AU2yzNc_npI Links to an external site.

 

What Makes a GOOD Nucleophile?  Part 2

https://youtu.be/pZ-GlvFB04I Links to an external site.

 

What Makes a GOOD Nucleophile?  Part 3

https://youtu.be/Oq3vba41p58 Links to an external site.

 

 

Mechanisms and Arrow Pushing

Introduction to Organic Mechanisms

https://youtu.be/V9JixmPdeuk Links to an external site.

 

Nucleophilic Attack and Loss of a Leaving Group

https://youtu.be/zmfSieL01HU Links to an external site.

 

Proton Transfers and Rearrangements

https://youtu.be/A7w3RvF5i80 Links to an external site.

 

Reaction Mechanism Patterns

https://youtu.be/vUtUxjyJKXE Links to an external site.

 

Carbocation Rearrangements Part 1

https://youtu.be/cSW9LDxtuoA Links to an external site.

 

Carbocation Rearrangements Part 2

https://youtu.be/FsQb6o510EY Links to an external site.

 

When to Use Reversible Arrows

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