CHM 2120/2520

CHM 2120/2520
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Below are video tutorials created specifically for uOttawa students. Taught by a PhD-level expert, each recording covers midterm/exam-style problems with clear, step-by-step guidance. Review challenging concepts at your own pace and walk into your exam with confidence.

🎁 INCLUDED WITH EVERY VIDEO TUTORIAL: Access to 30+ past uOttawa midterms/exams.

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Midterm 1 Video Tutorials.

Organic I Review
(Problem Solving)

$50

4 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • The Review Session will mainly focus on problem solving from past midterms/assignments, the following topics will be covered:
    •  Atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
    • Resonance (including identifying major/minor structures and resonance hybrids)
    • Drawing Chairs and Newman projections
    • Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
    • Acid-base chemistry (pKa and assessing conjugate bases)
    • Review ALL Organic I reactions
  • All students attending Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms.

CHM2120/2520: Problem Solving: Organic I Review

$50.00

  • Get a better understanding of atomic and molecular orbitals (this includes drawing bonding, non-bonding and antibonding orbitals)
  • Learn to draw resonance forms (and be able to identify major and minor structures)
  • Comfortably switch between chairs, Newman projections, and line structures
  • Stereochemistry of sp3 (R/S) and alkene (E/Z) structures
  • Learn to become an expert with acid-base chemistry by understanding pKa and how to assess the strength of a lone pair
  • Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
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Substitution and
Elimination Reactions

$50

3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Step by step guide for differentiating between E1/SN1 vs. SN2
  • Nucleophile strength, dead solvents and only base reagents
  • Carbocation properties and stability
  • 1,2-shifts and ring expansion for carbocations
  • Evaluating various leaving groups (L.G.)
  • Making OH groups into L.G.
  • SN1 mechanism and stereochemistry
  • SN2 mechanism and stereochemistry
  • Review how to make and react with epoxides
  • E2 mechanism and identifying major and minor products (Zaitsev vs. Hoffmann)
  • Review how to make and react with epoxides
  • Learn to draw transition states and energy diagrams
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Midterm 1 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms.

CHM2120/2520: SN and E Reactions

$50.00

  • Full understanding of how to use/draw energy diagrams and transition states
  • Learn to differentiate between a base and a nucleophile
  • Understand carbocations and when to do a 1,2-shift
  • How to tell if you have a leaving group for SN and E reactions
  • SN1 and E1 mechanism specifics
  • Solvents and rates for SN1 and E1
  • Many examples from midterms/exams administered at uOttawa!
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Midterm 2 Video Tutorials.

IR and H NMR
Spectroscopy

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4 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • How to read and extract information from IR spectra
  • Learn 1H NMR concepts such as chemical shift, equivalence, integration and multiplicity to common midterm questions
  • How to distinguish molecules using 1H NMR
  • Learn to draw 1H NMR spectra from organic molecules
  • Learn a technique to putting fragments together for final compound identification for 1H NMR
  • Practice questions with tutor on IR and H NMR in step by step!
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

CHM2120/2520: IR and 1H NMR Spectroscopy

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Carbonyl Chemistry
Part 1

$50

3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Alcohol oxidations using various oxidizing agents (PCC, Jones reagents etc.)
  • Oxymercuration and hydroboration of alkynes.
  • Review Friedel-Crafts (FC) acylation.
  • Ozonolysis of alkenes.
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

CHM2120/CHM2520: Carbonyl Chemistry Part 1

$50.00

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Final Exam Video Tutorials.

Carbonyl Chemistry
Part 2

$50

3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Assessing π-bond electrophile reactivity (e.g., ketone, aldehyde versus ester)
  • Ranking leaving groups for carbonyls
  • Learn mechanisms for π-bond electrophiles in basic and acidic conditions
  • The general mechanism above will cover the following reactions: Gringard reactions, NaBH4/LiAlH4 reductions, cyanohydrides, saponification, transesterification, amide formation, imines, acetals, transesterification, hydrolysis and amide formations.
  • Learn to describe and justify how to manipulate an equilibrium to favour either products or reactants for carbonyl chemistry.
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Midterm 2 Package" containing past uOttawa Professor midterms!

CHM2120/2520: Carbonyl Chemistry Part 2

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Enols, Enolates
and Enamines

$50

3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Tautomerization of enols/enolates under basic and acidic conditions
  • Assessing the acidity of α-hydrogen on carbonyls
  • Understanding kinetic vs. thermodynamic enolates/enamines
  • Know when to do a enolate/enamine reactions instead of attacking the carbonyl
  • Understanding how to use an enolate/enamine against various electrophiles (includes alpha-alkylation and alpha-halogenation)
  • Halogenation in basic and acidic conditions for enolates/enols
  • Reacting enolates/enamines with carbonyls (ex. Aldol reaction/condensation, Claisen reactions)
  • E1cb Elimination in Aldol reactions (Dehydration products)
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor exams!

CHM2120/2520: Enols, Enolates and Enamines

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Synthesis and
Retrosynthesis

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3 Hour Video Tutorial
includes problem solving

Review Session Details
  • Review of important Organic 1 reactions needed for synthesis and retrosynthesis
  • Reagents for SN and E reactions in synthesis/retrosynthesis
  • Learn to move an alkene group over an alkyl chain
  • Switch between carbonyls during synthesis questions
  • Making retrosynthesis simpler using "reaction scars" technique
  • Exam-like retrosynthesis questions from simple to complex
  • Very helpful tutorial for anyone that needs to learn which reagents to use to make final products from simple starting materials!
  • All students that purchase this Review Session will receive "Final Exam Package" containing past uOttawa Professor exams!

CHM2120/2520: Synthesis and Retrosynthesis

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Session Instructor
ABDULLAH AKBAR, PhD
Abdullah is a top-rated tutor with 10+ years of teaching experience.
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­As a PhD graduate from the University of Ottawa, he has worked along with many of the CHM 2120/2520 Professors. His lesson plans will always begin with must-know fundamental concepts and end with examples from previous midterms and final exam questions.

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