Chad provides an introduction to Organic Synthesis (Retrosynthesis), one of the more difficult types of questions appearing on Organic Chemistry exams (particularly in 2nd semester). Chad outlines five important functional group conversions that should be familiar to the undergraduate at this point in the curriculum giving a framework for how to organize the set of organic reactions in one's memory. He then moves on to show how to increase and decrease the length of the carbon chain and the one type of reaction that can be used to open up a ring in the carbon chain.

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00:00 Lesson Introduction
00:26 Organic Synthesis Introduction
02:01 Functional Group Conversions
09:18 Increasing the Length of the Carbon Chain
19:14 Decreasing the Length of the Carbon Chain
21:24 Opening a Ring in the Carbon Chain

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