Special Topic 1E: Aromatic and Aromatic Substitutions

The purpose of this video is to help second-year organic chemistry students review the concepts and questions that most frequently appear on standardized entrance exams, like the MCAT, DAT, PCAT, and GRE. In this video I\u27ll teach you how to determine if a compound is aromatic, non-aromatic, or anti-aromatic. I\u27ll also teach you how to name monosubstituted benzenes, and I\u27ll review electrophilic (and nucleophilic) aromatic substitution reactions. I\u27ll help you to distinguish between ortho/para-directing substituents and meta-directing substituents, and I\u27ll teach you how to predict the products of aromatic substitutions of substituted benzenes. I\u27ll review Clemmensen and Wolff-Kishner reductions, radical halogenation of benzyl carbons, benzylic oxidations, and diazonium salt formation, and I\u27ll help you to apply all of this to total synthesis. --Dr. Mike Christiansen from Utah State University