- Year
- 2025
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- Notes
Made out of frustration for lack of clarity and resources in the syllabus over which reactions need to be memorised.
This flowchart includes all the reactions that are (mostly) in syllabus that you should memorise for HSC Organic Chemistry. It has been condensed and byproducts are not shown. Catalysts are included although not distinguished from reagents/conditions, but will be easy enough to figure out. Double up reactions have not been included (such as reacting major and minor products). Halogens in the flowchart are the most common for that reaction, but can be a placeholder for other halogens.
This is not recommended as study material but rather for summary and revision. It is recommended study all reactions in detail beforehand.
If you’re struggling to memorise these the best way to remember the reagents is to think about the byproducts produced (eg substitution of haloalkane for hydroxyl group should produce a salt as it would not produce a halogen gas, thus reagent must be group 1 hydroxide (NaOH or KOH)).
This flowchart includes all the reactions that are (mostly) in syllabus that you should memorise for HSC Organic Chemistry. It has been condensed and byproducts are not shown. Catalysts are included although not distinguished from reagents/conditions, but will be easy enough to figure out. Double up reactions have not been included (such as reacting major and minor products). Halogens in the flowchart are the most common for that reaction, but can be a placeholder for other halogens.
This is not recommended as study material but rather for summary and revision. It is recommended study all reactions in detail beforehand.
If you’re struggling to memorise these the best way to remember the reagents is to think about the byproducts produced (eg substitution of haloalkane for hydroxyl group should produce a salt as it would not produce a halogen gas, thus reagent must be group 1 hydroxide (NaOH or KOH)).
