The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:

Organic chemistry is the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

General topics

• History of organic chemistry
• IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry
• Organic reaction
• Organic compound
• Organic synthesis
  • Retrosynthetic analysis

Current trends

Current trends in organic chemistry include (as of 2020):

• Biocatalysis
• Catalysis
• Chemosensors
• Chiral synthesis
• Flow chemistry
• Green chemistry
• Mechanochemistry
• Photoredox catalysis

Concepts

• Acids and bases
  • Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
  • Acid dissociation constants
  • Lewis acids and bases
• Chemoselectivity
• Molecular structure
  • Aromaticity
  • Chemical bonding
    • Covalent bonding
    • Lewis model
    • Molecule shapes
    • Bond angles
    • Resonance structures
  • Conjugated systems
  • Functional groups
  • Stereochemistry
    • Conformational isomerism
    • Diastereomer
    • Stereoisomerism
    • Chirality
    • Optical activity
    • Enantiomers
• Regioselectivity
• Stereoselectivity
• Spectroscopy
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • Mass spectrometry
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy
• Organometallic chemistry

Chemical species

• Acetals
  • Hemiacetals
  • Thioacetals
  • Ketals
• Alcohols and alkyl halides, diols, thiols
• Alkanes and cycloalkanes
• Alkenes
• Alkynes
• Amines
• Amino acids, peptides, proteins
• Aromatics
  • Acetophenones
  • Anilines
  • Anisoles
  • Benzene
  • Benzenesulfonic acids
  • Benzophenones
  • Nitrobenzenes
  • Phenols
• Aromatic hydrocarbons
  • Toluene
  • Xylenes
    • m-Xylenes
    • o-Xylenes
    • p-Xylenes
• Aryl halides
• Carbohydrates
  • Sugar
• Carbonyl compounds
  • Acid anhydride
  • Acyl halides
    • Acyl chlorides
  • Aldehydes
  • Amides
    • Lactams
  • Carboxylic acids
  • Dicarbonyl
  • Enones
  • Esters
    • Lactones
  • Imides
  • Ketones
• Enols
  • Enolate anions
  • Enamines
• Ethers
  • Epoxides
  • Sulfides
• Imines
  • Schiff bases
• Ketenes
• Lipids
• Nitriles
• Nucleic acids
• Organometallic compounds
• Oximes

Reactions

• Addition reaction
  • Aldol addition
  • Electrophilic addition
  • Michael addition
  • Mukaiyama aldol addition
  • Nucleophilic addition
• Cyclization
  • Bergman cyclization
  • Nazarov cyclization reaction
• Elimination reaction
  • Beta elimination
  • Cope elimination
  • E1cB elimination reaction
  • Hofmann elimination
• Organic redox reaction
  • Cannizzaro reaction
  • Oxidation
    • Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
    • Corey-Kim oxidation
    • Dess-Martin oxidation
    • Fleming-Tamao oxidation
    • Jones oxidation
    • Nucleophilic epoxidation
    • Oppenauer oxidation
    • Prilezhaev reaction
    • Rubottom oxidation
    • Schmidt reaction
    • Swern oxidation
    • Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
  • Reduction
    • Birch reduction
    • Bouveault-Blanc reduction
    • CBS reduction
    • Clemmensen reduction
    • Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
    • Corey–Itsuno reduction
    • Fukuyama reduction
    • Luche reduction
    • Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
    • Rosenmund reduction
    • Staudinger reduction
    • Wolff-Kishner reduction
• Pericyclic reaction
  • Cheletropic reaction
  • Cycloaddition
    • 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition
      • Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
    • Diels–Alder reaction
    • Nitrone-olefin (3+2) cycloaddition
    • Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition
  • Dyotropic reaction
  • Electrocyclic reaction
  • Group transfer reaction
  • Sigmatropic reaction
• Polymerization
  • Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation
• Rearrangement reaction
  • Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement
  • Beckmann rearrangement
  • Benzilic acid rearrangement
  • Brook rearrangement
  • Claisen rearrangement
  • Cope rearrangement
  • Curtius rearrangement
  • Fries rearrangement
  • Ireland–Claisen rearrangement
  • Newman–Kwart rearrangement
  • Overman rearrangement
  • Oxy-Cope rearrangement
  • Pinacol rearrangement
  • 1,2-Wittig rearrangement
  • 2,3-Wittig rearrangement
• Substitution reaction
  • Electrophilic aromatic substitution
  • Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
  • Electrophilic substitution
  • Nucleophilic substitution
    • S_N1 reaction
    • S_N2 reaction
  • Vicarious nucleophilic substitution

See also

• Important publications in organic chemistry
• List of organic reactions

References

External links

At Wikiversity you can learn more and teach others about organic chemistry at:

The Department of organic chemistry

• Organic Chemistry Lectures, Videos and Text
• Virtual Textbook of Organic Chemistry
• Organic Families and Their Functional Groups
• Roger Frost's Organic Chemistry - multimedia teaching tools