Stop memorizing,understand the pattern.
Orgo Blueprint is a free Organic Chemistry I guide built around practice and pattern recognition. It's still not easy, but this is a blueprint for success.
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Lessons
Learn concepts while minimizing memorization.
Mechanisms
Curved arrows, intermediates, and why things happen.
Reagent Guide
What every reagent does and when to use it.
Practice
Exam-style questions that improve your pattern recognition.
Sample reagent guide
Tap a reagent to see what it does.
Organic Chemistry I
Course map
Thirteen lessons. Each one builds on the last.
Lesson 01
Structure and Bonding
Read skeletal structures, count carbons, spot hidden hydrogens.
Open lessonLesson 02
Functional Groups and Formal Charge
Learn all core functional groups, and assign charges using valence electrons, bonds, and lone pairs.
Open lessonLesson 03
Resonance
Move electrons across connected π systems.
Open lessonLesson 04
Acids and Bases
Compare stability to rank acids, bases, and conjugates.
Open lessonLesson 05
Alkanes and Conformations
Alkane shapes, Newman projections, and naming patterns.
Open lessonLesson 06
Stereochemistry
Wedges, dashes, chirality, and stereochemical relationships.
Open lessonLesson 07
Mechanism Fundamentals
Curved arrows, nucleophiles, electrophiles, and intermediates.
Open lessonLesson 08
Substitution
SN1 and SN2: how substrate, nucleophile, and solvent pick the path.
Open lessonLesson 09
Elimination
E1 and E2, Zaitsev, and when each pathway wins.
Open lessonLesson 10
Alkene Reactions
Common additions and how regiochemistry is predicted.
Open lessonLesson 11
Alkyne Reactions
Reductions, additions, and C–C bond formation.
Open lessonLesson 12
Alcohols and Ethers
Patterns, reactions, and reagents for O-containing molecules.
Open lessonLesson 13
Synthesis and Retrosynthesis
Chain reactions together and work backward from a target.
Open lessonPractice Questions
Workbook zone
Mechanisms, reagent prediction, synthesis, and exam-style problems. Questions that force you to actually read the structure.
Mechanism drills
Predict arrows, intermediates, and products.
Reagent questions
Identify what each reagent does and why.
Exam review
Mixed problems organized by difficulty.