Memorization Tips and Tricks
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- How can I identify functional groups?
- How can I memorize functional groups?
- When naming compounds, what is the ending for a compound with no functional group?
- How can I remember functional groups in organic chemistry?
- What are the rules for assigning suffixes and prefixes to functional groups?
- Is cytosine a purine or a pyrimidine? How can you tell?
- What types of functional groups are present in an amino acid? A carbohydrate?
- What are the functional groups present in the beta form of glucose?
- Are there any methods to help with memorizing the formulas of organic functional groups (ex. alcohol, aldehyde, ketone, carboxylic acid, ester, amine, & amide)?
- How can you differentiate an aldehyde from a ketone?
- How can you identify aldehydes and ketones?
- How can you identify ketones?
- What is a phenoxide ion?
- If given a starting product and end result, how do you determine which steps are used to reach the end result? How do you determine the correct order?
- How can you easily differentiate between these reactions?
- How does Williamson ether synthesis differ from other synthesis reactions?
- How can you recognize geometric isomers?
- Looking at an ion, how can you tell whether hydrolysis will occur or not?
- How can you tell the difference between an ester, ketone, carboxylic acid, aldehyde, amines, amides and phenol?
- How do you identify aromatic rings?
- How do you draw aromatic rings?
- How can you distinguish between alkanes, alkenes and alkynes?
- How can you determine anhydrides of acids and bases?
- How can you identify alkenes?
- How can you recognize alkenes?
- How can you distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols?
- What is the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary alcohols?
- How can you predict whether primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohol undergoes halogenation?
- How can you identify primary alcohol?
- How do primary secondary and tertiary alcohols differ?
- How do you distinguish between primary and secondary alcohols?
- How can you solve addition reactions?
- How can you identify cycloalkanes?
- How can you identify halides?
- How do you determine if a compound is a halide?
- How do you determine pi bonds?
- How do you determine carbocation?
- How can you easily identify an aromatic compound?
- What do aromatic compounds contain?
- How can you identify aromatic compounds?
- How do you determine acidity of aromatic compounds?
- How would you determine if a structure contains aromatic compounds?
- How do you test for aromatic compounds?
- How can you memorize the IR spectra?
- What are the best methods to separate an azeotrope?
- Identify each of the following as an alcohol, aldehyde, amide, amine, carboxylic acid, or ketone?