The principle of solubility, "like dissolves like," emphasizes the importance of polarity in determining whether substances will mix. Polar molecules, such as water and ethanol, dissolve in each other due to their similar net dipoles. Understanding the polarity of various organic compounds,...
When Diels and Alder originally discovered this phenomenon, they assigned the name “endo” to the major product (where the dienophile is pointing “in”, towards the alkene) , and the term “exo” (outside, such as in “exoskeleton”) to refer to the minor product (where...
The course load was pretty intense, but I was expecting it. We were expected to do all the problems in the assigned chapter every week (~100 problems), and we were given reaction sheets to keep up on. Each reaction sheet was either “Reaction of (functional group)” or “Synthesis of ...