This process describes the basic hydrolysis of an ester.
What is Soponification?
"Protected Aldehyde"
Acetal
A tetrahedral center surrounded by 4 different groups.
What is a chiral center?
Classified by a reaction rate affected by two reactants.
Bimolecular
This type of addition adds to the same side of the alkene.
What is Syn Addition?
In order for the reaction to favor products, this must be more stable than the nucleophile.
What is the Leaving Group?
Organomagnesium Nucleophiles
Grignard Reagents
Priority Rules for naming Chiral compounds.
Cahn-Ingold Prelog
SN2 reactions always occur through this type of attack.
What is backside?
Besides carbon and hydrogen, the second most common element in organic chemistry
What is oxygen?
The addiction of HCN to carbonyl compounds
Nucleophilic Addition
PTSA
para-Tolumesulfranic Acid
Chiral nomenclature describing the orientation of the lowest priority group.
What are rectus and sinister?
The movement of electrons through SN2 at the same time.
What is concerted?
The more substituted alkene formed via elimination.
What is Zaitsev?
A better reducing agent than Sodium Borohydride.
What is Lithium Aluminum Hydride?
The compound pictured below, abbreviated Ts

Tosylate
Characteristic not shared by enantiomers.
What is optical activity?
The overlap of filled bonding orbitals with adjacent empty orbitals
What is hyperconjugation?
This type of oxidation turns a 20 alcohol into a ketone.
What is Jones Oxidation?
This compound consists of 1 sulfur, 1 oxygen, and 2 chlorine.
What is Thionyl Chloride?
TBS, TIPS, TES, TBDPS
What are Silyl Protecting Groups?
Two types of optical rotation.
What are observed and specific?
This type of solvent is used to lower the intermediate energy of the nucleophilic reaction.
What is polar protic?
The intermediate that arises from Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution.
Arenium Ion