How to memorise Organic Chemistry Reactions - Drawing Concept Maps

In Organic Chemistry, students need to memorise all reactions of various functional groups.

Drawing your own concept maps is an excellent way to memorise organic reactions.

Students can also make the connections between functional groups.

Your personal concept map beats any fancy concept map that you can find in textbooks or guide books.

Here are also four tried-and-tested methods to memorise reagents and conditions in organic chem.

To help students get started, here are the concept maps used in organic chemistry classes for Chemistry Guru, an established centre in Singapore providing quality A Level H2 Chemistry tuition for JC students since 2010.

*Note P and R represent the number of Preparation reactions and Reactions respectively. Eg for Alkene with 2P + 7R, there are 2 Preparation reactions to form alkene and 7 Reactions of alkene to form other functional groups.

A Levels Organic Chemistry Concept Maps

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Download these concept maps in a single document (on Google Drive in pdf format):

A Level Organic Chemistry Concept Maps

Want to test how many of these reactions you have memorised?

Download these 3 exercises (on Google Drive in pdf format) sorted by difficulty level:

1. Recall organic compounds (given reagents and conditions)

2. Recall reagents and conditions (given organic compounds)

3. Recall EVERYTHING (given main functional group)

Check out this free Organic Chem 55 reactions cheatsheet and download all these reactions in a single page.

Good luck in memorising these Organic Chemistry reactions!

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