Finally understand organic chemistry — not just survive it
Master every essential mechanism, reaction, and spectroscopy tool through visual, logic-first teaching that turns orgo from a memorization nightmare into a subject you actually think through — built for pre-med and chemistry students who are done guessing.
My goal isn't to get you through your exam — it's to get you to the point where you could teach this to someone else.— Tracy Burke
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Draw and interpret arrow-pushing mechanisms for the 30 most essential organic reactions with confidence
- Predict reaction products and identify reagents by recognizing functional group patterns at a glance
- Understand stereochemistry — chirality, enantiomers, diastereomers, and R/S notation — without memorization tricks
- Build a systematic mental framework for multi-step synthesis problems from starting material to target molecule
- Decode NMR, IR, and mass spectra to determine the structure of unknown organic compounds
- Approach MCAT or university exam questions strategically, eliminating errors from mechanism misunderstanding
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 28 lessons
Foundations of Organic Chemistry
Builds the essential language and conceptual toolkit — bonding, orbitals, hybridization, and electron behavior — that underpins every mechanism and reaction to come.
- 1.1Atomic Structure, Orbitals, and HybridizationIncluded
- 1.2Lewis Structures, Formal Charge, and ResonanceIncluded
- 1.3Electronegativity, Polarity, and Intermolecular ForcesIncluded
- 1.4Acids and Bases in Organic ChemistryIncluded
- 1.5Introduction to Functional Groups and NomenclatureIncluded
Mastering Arrow-Pushing and Reaction Mechanisms
Develops the core skill of mechanistic thinking — reading and drawing curved arrows to show how electrons move in every class of organic reaction.
- 2.1The Logic of Curved ArrowsIncluded
- 2.2Nucleophiles, Electrophiles, and Leaving GroupsIncluded
- 2.3Substitution Reactions — SN1 and SN2Included
- 2.4Elimination Reactions — E1 and E2Included
- 2.5Addition Reactions of Alkenes and AlkynesIncluded
Stereochemistry — Thinking in Three Dimensions
Gives you a deep, memorization-free understanding of molecular three-dimensionality, chirality, and how stereochemistry controls reaction outcomes.
- 3.1Chirality, Stereocenters, and the R/S SystemIncluded
- 3.2Enantiomers, Diastereomers, and Meso CompoundsIncluded
- 3.3Optical Activity and Fischer ProjectionsIncluded
- 3.4Stereochemical Outcomes of ReactionsIncluded
Functional Groups and the Essential Reactions
Systematically covers the 30 most essential reactions across all major functional group families, building pattern-recognition skills for reagent and product prediction.
- 4.1Alcohols, Ethers, and EpoxidesIncluded
- 4.2Carbonyl Chemistry — Aldehydes and KetonesIncluded
- 4.3Carboxylic Acids and Their DerivativesIncluded
- 4.4Enols, Enolates, and Alpha-Carbon ReactionsIncluded
- 4.5Aromatic Compounds and Electrophilic Aromatic SubstitutionIncluded
Multi-Step Synthesis and Retrosynthetic Analysis
Trains you to design efficient synthetic routes by working both forward and backward from target molecules using a systematic framework.
- 5.1Retrosynthetic Analysis — Working BackwardsIncluded
- 5.2Protecting Groups and ChemoselectivityIncluded
- 5.3Building Carbon Skeletons — C–C Bond-Forming ReactionsIncluded
- 5.4Designing and Evaluating Complete Synthetic RoutesIncluded
Spectroscopy and Structure Determination
Teaches you to decode NMR, IR, and mass spectra systematically so you can determine the structure of any unknown organic compound.
- 6.1Infrared Spectroscopy — Reading Functional Group FingerprintsIncluded
- 6.2Mass Spectrometry — Molecular Weight and FragmentationIncluded
- 6.3¹H NMR — Chemical Shift, Integration, and SplittingIncluded
- 6.4¹³C NMR and DEPT — Mapping the Carbon SkeletonIncluded
- 6.5Integrated Structure Determination ProblemsIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Pre-Med Survivor
You're grinding through the orgo sequence with medical school on the line and need to build real mechanistic understanding, not just scrape by.
The MCAT Prepper
You've finished orgo but MCAT passages on carbonyl chemistry and stereochemistry still shake your confidence — this course rebuilds those foundations properly.
The Chem Major Going Deeper
You want to move beyond surface-level reaction lists and develop the mechanistic fluency your upper-division coursework will demand.
The Self-Directed Learner
You're studying molecular biology or biochemistry on your own and need the organic chemistry foundation to make sense of metabolic pathways and molecular structures.
The Retaker Starting Over
You've been through orgo once, but something didn't click — this time you want to learn it the right way, from mechanisms up.
The Bio Student Hitting a Wall
Your biology degree just started requiring serious organic chemistry knowledge and you need to get up to speed on mechanisms and functional group chemistry fast.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Tracy Burke
If you've ever stared at an orgo exam, recognized almost every reaction on the page, and still gotten it wrong — I built this course for you.
Here's what I've seen happen over and over: students work incredibly hard. They fill notebooks, they re-read chapters, they make reaction flashcards. And then the exam puts a molecule they haven't memorized in front of them, and the whole system falls apart. That's not a study habits problem. That's a framework problem. Organic chemistry isn't a collection of facts to retrieve — it's a logic system. And once you see it that way, everything changes.
Orgo Unlocked is the course I wish had existed when I was working through this material. Every lesson is built around the question a good tutor would ask: why does this reaction happen? Not "what does the reaction do?" but what is the electron flow, what makes this nucleophile attack here and not there, why does this substrate go SN2 while that one goes E2? When you can answer those questions, you're not memorizing reactions anymore — you're predicting them. That's a completely different relationship with the subject, and it's the one that holds up under exam pressure and MCAT passages and biochemistry courses and real scientific thinking.
We go deep on the things that trip students up most: arrow-pushing logic, stereochemistry in three dimensions, carbonyl reactivity, retrosynthetic analysis, and spectroscopic structure determination. These aren't just syllabus checkboxes — they're the concepts that separate students who survive orgo from students who genuinely understand it. I use precise chemical vocabulary throughout, because imprecision is where confusion hides, but every abstract mechanism gets anchored to a visual, spatial, molecular picture so it actually sticks.
I want you to finish this course and feel what it's like to look at an organic molecule and immediately start reading it — seeing the functional groups, anticipating the reactivity, tracing the electrons. That moment, when orgo stops being a wall and becomes a language, is what this is all about. Come in ready to think, and I'll show you how.
— Tracy Burke
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