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Hello - Available for Fall 2025, Zoom tutoring or in-person help in the Atlanta area. I have helped students taking Organic Chemistry, AP Chemistry, and Gene...

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H-O-M-O L-U-M-O... That's How Most Reactions Go

So Long Farewell Senior Chemistry SI's

Video 3 When we should stop at the Aldol Product and CANNOT do a Condensation

Video 2 How do we know when to do an Intramolecular Cyclization via an Aldol Condensation

Video 1 Mechanism of Aldol Condensation in Silence

Saponification, Reactions with Alcohols, & Fischer Esterification

Mechanisms for Hydrolysis of the Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

Four Reduction Reactions

IUPAC & Common Names Carboxylic Acids

NMR of Benzophenone and Triphenylmethanol

Protection of the Carbonyl Group in a Synthesis

Waffle Eating Contest Nov 14, 2025

Finish last page for the Class 15 Handout

Part 2 Writing a Prelab Entry with a Stoichiometry Table

Part 1 Writing a Prelab Entry with a Stoichiometry Table

Hydrogen-Bonding, Polarity, & Water-Solubility (Fall 2025)

Spring 2025 What Was This Made For with Juan on Guitar

H-O-M-O L-U-M-O (Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital, Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital)

Calculate the pI of a pentapeptide

Calculating the pI of an Amino Acid with an Ionizable R Group (Example Histidine)

Calculating the pI of an Amino Acid without an Ionizable R Group (Example Glutamine)

Are these small ring carbocations and carbanions Aromatic, Nonaromatic, or Antiaromatic

What to draw if doing an Addition of HX to an Asymmetrical Diene

What is the Michael Addition Fill-in-the-Product and Mechanism Problem

How LDA is used in Enolate Chemistry... What Type of Problems Might You See

Retrosynthetic Analysis of Claisen Condensation Targets

Mechanism of the Claisen Condensation... And why does the base have to match the leaving group

Challenging Intramolecular Aldol Condensation

Mechanism for an Intramolecular Aldol (plus an interesting multiple choice problem)

Conjugation & Conjugated Systems