Chemistry 51A: Organic Chemistry (Fall 2009, UC Irvine). Instructor: Professor James Nowick. Fundamental concepts relating to carbon compounds with emphasis on structural theory and the nature of chemical bonding,
stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms, and spectroscopic, physical, and chemical properties of the principal classes of carbon compounds.
Lecture 18 - Properties of Chiral Compounds
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:02:04]
1. Optical Activity
[00:06:10]
2. Beer's Law
[00:10:16]
3. Racemic Compounds
[00:16:36]
4. Acid-Catalyzed Alkene Hydration
[00:23:02]
5. Carvone
[00:26:16]
6. Thalidomide
[00:31:04]
7. Physical Properties of Enantiomers, Racemates, and Achiral Compounds