Positive Chemistry Experiences
Table of Contents for Part III
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Part III: Alkenes and Alkynes
Nomenclature and Reactions of Alkenes
Lesson III.1. Alkene Nomenclature and the E-/Z- Convention
Lesson III.2. Properties of Alkenes and Hydrogenation of Alkenes
Lesson III.3. Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes and Carbocation Rearrangement Revisited
Lesson III.4. Introducing Addition to Alkenes
Lesson III.5. Hydrohalogenation and Hydration of Alkenes
Lesson III.6. Alkene Halogenation and Halohydrin Formation
Lesson III.7. Oxymercuration/Reduction of Alkenes
Lesson III.8. Epoxidation of Alkenes
Lesson III.9. Hydroboration/Oxidation of Alkenes
Lesson III.10. Reactions of Alkenes VI: Ozonolysis and Preparation of Vicinal Diols
Nomenclature and Reactions of Alkynes
Lesson III.11. Naming and Making Alkynes
Lesson III.12. Hydrohalogenation and Halogenation of Alkynes
Lesson III.13. Three Ways to Reduce Alkynes
Lesson III.14. Facile Constitutional Isomerism: Tautomerization
Lesson III.15. Preparing Carbonyls from Alkynes
Lesson III.16. Acetylide Anion Preparation and its use as a Nucleophile
Reactions Involving Radicals
Lesson III.17. Radicals I: Peroxide-Mediated Hydrobromination of Alkenes
Lesson III.18. Radicals II: Halogenation of Alkanes
Lesson III.19. Radicals III: Radical Polymerization of Alkenes