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.

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Lesson 02

Functional Groups and Formal Charge

Learn all core functional groups, and assign charges using valence electrons, bonds, and lone pairs.

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Lesson 03

Resonance

Move electrons across connected π systems.

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Lesson 04

Acids and Bases

Compare stability to rank acids, bases, and conjugates.

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Lesson 05

Alkanes and Conformations

Alkane shapes, Newman projections, and naming patterns.

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Lesson 06

Stereochemistry

Wedges, dashes, chirality, and stereochemical relationships.

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Lesson 07

Mechanism Fundamentals

Curved arrows, nucleophiles, electrophiles, and intermediates.

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Lesson 08

Substitution

SN1 and SN2: how substrate, nucleophile, and solvent pick the path.

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Lesson 09

Elimination

E1 and E2, Zaitsev, and when each pathway wins.

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Lesson 10

Alkene Reactions

Common additions and how regiochemistry is predicted.

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Lesson 11

Alkyne Reactions

Reductions, additions, and C–C bond formation.

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Lesson 12

Alcohols and Ethers

Patterns, reactions, and reagents for O-containing molecules.

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Lesson 13

Synthesis and Retrosynthesis

Chain reactions together and work backward from a target.

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Practice 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.