CHM 1321/1721
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Acid/Base Reactions
and Resonance
Review Session Details
- Learn to draw resonance forms (and be able to identify major and minor structures)
- Learn to assess/draw electron pushing arrows for acid/base reactions
- Assessing a lone pair's strength
- Understand how lone pairs are affected by resonance, electronegativity, atom size, inductive effect and s-character
- Assessing acidity of various hydrogen atoms
- Understand how to use pKa to assess acidity
- Determine the favoured equilibrium direction for acid/base reactions
- Drawing mechanism arrows for acid/base reactions
- Draw most dominant charge using pKa and pH
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

CHM1321/1721: Resonance, Lone Pair Strength and Acid-Base Chemistry
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π-bonds as
Electrophiles
Review Session Details
- Assessment of carbocation stability
- Learning when/how to conduct 1,2 rearrangement reaction with carbocations
- Alkene/alkyne addition reactions in the presence of strong acid (i.e. ALL Markovnikov reactions)
- Hydroboration reaction (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Formation of epoxides using alkene (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Halogenation reaction using alkene/alkynes (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- ALL complex mechanism will be simplified into groups and necessary theory will be discussed.
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm and Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms and some finals!

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π-bonds as
Nucleophiles
Review Session Details
- Assessment of carbocation stability
- Learning when/how to conduct 1,2 rearrangement reaction with carbocations
- Alkene/alkyne addition reactions in the presence of strong acid (i.e. ALL Markovnikov reactions)
- Hydroboration reaction (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Formation of epoxides using alkene (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Halogenation reaction using alkene/alkynes (with thorough explanation of mechanism, stereochemistry and regioselectivity)
- Understanding how to use Grignard reagents as nucleophiles
- Understanding how to use Boron/Aluminum hydrate reagents as nucleophiles
- Reduction of carbonyls using Boron/Aluminum hydrate reagents
- Alkylation of carbonyls using Grignard reagents
- ALL complex mechanism will be simplified into groups and necessary theory will be discussed.
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

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Midterm 1 Review Sessions Recordings:
$35
for 3.5-Hours
Resonance and
Atomic/Molecular
Orbitals
Review Session Details
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!
- Understand formal charges, periodic table trends, dipoles and molecular bonds (sigma and pi bonds)
- Molecular interaction (i.e. hydrogen bonding, Van der Waals forces) to determine boiling and melting points
- Get a better understanding of atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
- Understand how to identify atom's hybridizations (sp, sp2, sp3 and s)
- Learn to draw resonance forms in steps
- Learn to draw chemical formulas using atomic orbitals (i.e. LCAO)

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Newman Projections,
Chairs and
Stereochemistry
Review Session Details
- All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!
- Convert condensed chemical formulas into line structure
- Learn how to Newman Projections in steps
- Learn to draw and convert between chair conformations in steps
- Understand more favourable chair conformations via ring strain
- Learn to switch between line structure and Newman projections
- Apply Newman projection structure to energy diagrams
- Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
- Distinguish between enantiomers, diastereomers and meso compounds
- Learn how to calculate optical activity and enantiomeric excess

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