Organic Chemistry ACS Final (with Complete Solutions) 2024.

Basicity rules correct answers -strong base: unstable/reactive (ED groups) -weak base: stable (EW groups/more EN/bigger) Chair conformation correct answers -more stable equitorial (slanted) -pointing up/pointing down=cis if both up -elimination: trans and diaxial Newman projection correct answers -gauche: substituent groups adjacent to eachother -grab middle and turn to put in plane Enantiomers correct answers -not superimposable mirror images -same besides stereochemistry Diastereomers correct answers -mirror images but one stereocenter stays and another is changed Meso correct answers -at least two stereo centers Alkene + HBr correct answers -adds Markonikov Fischer projection correct answers -vertical plane: away -horizontal plant: towards -assign priorities -turn 90 then put on side Electrophilic addition to alkene correct answers -forms carbocation -E+ adds 1.Hg(OAc)2, H2o 2.NaBH4 alkene correct answers -forms mercurnium ion -no rearrangement -Mark addition of OH 1. B2H2 2.H2O2, NaOH alkene correct answers -anti-Mark addition of OH -syn addition of the H added Br2 to alkene correct answers -anti addition -adds to both sides -could be allylic shift; 1,2 and 1,4 mixture