Finally understand why organic chemistry works
Master mechanisms, predict reactions, and think like a chemist — so orgo clicks instead of crushes you. Built for pre-med, bio, and chem students who are done memorizing and ready to actually get it.
My job isn't to hand you reactions to memorize — it's to hand you the logic that makes every reaction make sense.
— Tracy Burke
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Draw and interpret arrow-pushing mechanisms for the 20 most important reaction classes in organic chemistry
- Predict the major product of a reaction — including stereochemistry — without memorizing every case individually
- Name and decode IUPAC nomenclature for complex organic molecules confidently and quickly
- Understand and apply the principles of acid-base chemistry, resonance, and inductive effects to predict molecular behavior
- Design multi-step synthetic routes to build target molecules from simple starting materials
- Read and interpret 1H NMR, IR, and mass spectra to identify unknown organic compounds
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 · 29 lessons
Foundations of Molecular Thinking
Builds the essential mental models — bonding, orbitals, resonance, and electronegativity — that underpin every mechanism and reaction in the course.
- 1.1Atomic Orbitals, Hybridization, and Molecular GeometryIncluded
- 1.2Resonance Structures and Electron DelocalizationIncluded
- 1.3Electronegativity, Polarity, and Inductive EffectsIncluded
- 1.4Organic Acid-Base ChemistryIncluded
- 1.5Functional Groups and IUPAC NomenclatureIncluded
The Art of Arrow-Pushing
Develops fluency in curved-arrow notation so students can read, draw, and reason through any organic mechanism from first principles.
- 2.1Curved Arrows: The Language of Electron MovementIncluded
- 2.2Nucleophiles, Electrophiles, and Leaving GroupsIncluded
- 2.3Carbocation, Carbanion, and Radical IntermediatesIncluded
- 2.4Energy Diagrams, Transition States, and Reaction Coordinate ThinkingIncluded
Core Reaction Classes and Mechanisms
Walks through the 20 most important reaction types — substitution, elimination, addition, oxidation-reduction, and beyond — using mechanism logic rather than memorization.
- 3.1SN1 and SN2 Substitution: Mechanisms and CompetitionIncluded
- 3.2E1 and E2 Elimination: Zaitsev, Hofmann, and BeyondIncluded
- 3.3Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes and AlkynesIncluded
- 3.4Electrophilic Aromatic SubstitutionIncluded
- 3.5Carbonyl Chemistry: Nucleophilic Addition and Acyl SubstitutionIncluded
- 3.6Enols, Enolates, and Alpha-Carbon ReactivityIncluded
- 3.7Oxidation and Reduction in Organic ChemistryIncluded
Stereochemistry: Shape, Space, and Selectivity
Gives students the vocabulary and tools to assign, predict, and control the 3D outcome of every reaction they encounter.
- 4.1Chirality, Stereocenters, and R/S ConfigurationIncluded
- 4.2Enantiomers, Diastereomers, and Meso CompoundsIncluded
- 4.3Conformational Analysis: Rings and Open ChainsIncluded
- 4.4Predicting Stereochemical Outcomes of ReactionsIncluded
Designing Multi-Step Syntheses
Builds the strategic thinking needed to plan a logical sequence of reactions that constructs a target molecule from simple starting materials.
- 5.1Retrosynthetic Analysis: Thinking BackwardIncluded
- 5.2Protecting Groups and ChemoselectivityIncluded
- 5.3Building Carbon Frameworks: C–C Bond-Forming ReactionsIncluded
- 5.4Putting It All Together: Multi-Step Route DesignIncluded
Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds
Trains students to read real spectra — NMR, IR, and mass spectrometry — and use them together to determine the structure of an unknown compound.
- 6.1Infrared Spectroscopy: Identifying Functional GroupsIncluded
- 6.2Mass Spectrometry: Molecular Weight and FragmentationIncluded
- 6.31H NMR: Chemical Shift, Integration, and SplittingIncluded
- 6.413C NMR and Advanced NMR InterpretationIncluded
- 6.5Structure Determination: Combining All Spectral DataIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
First-time orgo students
She's in orgo for the first time and wants to build the right habits from day one — understanding mechanisms, not stockpiling flashcards.
Pre-med retakers
He struggled through orgo once and knows memorization failed him — this is his chance to rebuild from first principles and finally get the grade he needs.
MCAT preppers
She's past orgo but knows the MCAT will test her reasoning, not her recall — so she needs the mechanistic fluency this course delivers.
Biochemistry-bound students
He's heading into biochem and knows that enzyme mechanisms, metabolic pathways, and drug interactions all trace back to the orgo logic this course makes second nature.
Self-taught science learners
She's not in a formal orgo course but wants rigorous, university-level chemistry knowledge she can actually apply — and she learns best at her own pace.
Struggling mid-semester students
He's already in the middle of orgo, lost on mechanisms and stereochemistry, and needs a clear, energetic resource to course-correct before finals.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Tracy Burke
If you're reading this, I'm guessing you've already had at least one moment where organic chemistry made you question everything — your major, your confidence, maybe your entire academic plan. I've seen that look in students' eyes, and I want to say something clearly: the problem is almost never you. It's the approach.
The traditional way orgo gets taught is heavy on lists and light on logic. You're handed a reaction, told to memorize it, and then handed another one. By week six, you're drowning in a sea of arrows that seem to go wherever they feel like. When the exam hits, you either remember the exact case you studied, or you don't. That is an exhausting, fragile way to learn — and it has nothing to do with whether you're smart enough to be a doctor, a researcher, or a scientist.
Here's what I know to be true: organic chemistry is fundamentally logical. Electrons move from regions of high density to low density. They're attracted to positive charges and repelled by negative ones. Reactions happen because molecules are trying to reach lower energy states. Once those principles click, the mechanisms stop feeling arbitrary. You start seeing why an SN2 reaction inverts stereochemistry, why an enolate attacks at the alpha carbon, why Zaitsev's rule gives you the more substituted alkene. You stop memorizing outcomes and start predicting them — and that shift changes everything.
That's the transformation I've built this course to deliver. We start at the molecular level — orbitals, hybridization, resonance, polarity — and we build upward, layer by layer, until you can push arrows through any mechanism, predict stereochemical outcomes, design multi-step syntheses, and decode NMR and IR spectra. Every topic is taught with the why front and center, every concept is anchored with vivid analogies that make electron behavior feel intuitive rather than abstract.
Whether you're a first-timer who wants to get ahead of the curve, or a retaker who needs to rebuild your foundation the right way — this course was made for you. Orgo doesn't have to be the wall that stops you. It can be the subject that proves to you just how good your scientific mind really is. I'd love to show you how. Let's get into it.
— Tracy Burke
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