# Organic Chemistry/To-Do List

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## Overview

This section is not meant to be part of the printed book. It is simply a
place for people working on the text to organize their thoughts about
work they have pending, ideas they\'re tossing around, and so forth.
Simply add a section for your own name and then add whatever information
you want specific to your own needs. Please do not edit or comment on
other peoples\' sections without first discussing it in the discussion
section.

Besides acting as personal reminders, it also allows other people
working on the book to see who else is working on different sections and
what plans they have, as an aid to avoid duplicated efforts, stepping on
each others\' toes, and so forth.

Just hit the + icon at the top and add a section for yourself (try not
to edit the whole page or you\'ll update the automated Last Updated code
for everyone who\'s using it.)

## Pete Davis

-   Need a clear index. Functional groups rather be the lesson 1 than
    one appendix.
-   Need to complete ToDo sections in
    cycloalkanes
-   Need to complete discussions of **E1** and **E2**
    elimination
    reactions.
-   Need to finish fixing up functional
    groups
    chart stolen from wikipedia
-   Glossary continues to need
    new definitions.
-   Haloalkanes needs a lot
    of work. The stuff on S~N~1 and S~N~2 reactions needs to be merged
    with the existing stuff on these reactions. The text also needs to
    be written like a textbook, not a checklist of information.
-   We need to discuss Torsional strain somewhere. I\'m mentioning it in
    cycloalkanes, but I don\'t believe it\'s covered before then and it
    should probably be discussed earlier than that, probably in either
    Alkanes or in the stereochemistry section.
-   Okay, more strange stuff. Ethers are at the end of the Alcohol
    section. Ethers should probably be their own section\...
-   McMurray has Ethers in a section called *Ethers and Epoxides; Thiols
    and Sulfides*. We might want to put together a miscellaneous section
    similar to that. On the other hand, Carey has *Alcohols, Diols, and
    Thiols* together and then a separate chapter for *Ethers, Epoxides,
    and Sulfides*. There\'s an argument to be made for placing Thiols
    with alcohols.
-   Before Ketones and Aldehydes, we might want to have a short section
    discussing carbonyls in general, since they encompass aldehydes,
    ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amides, enones, acid chlorides,
    and anhydrides. I think of those, we only cover the first 3 well and
    have everything else summarized pretty briefly in Carboxylic Acid
    Derivatives, which barely scratches the surface on any of the
    remaining. Several of them, at least, deserve more than passing
    attention.
-   Add Kolbe\'s Electrolysis to Carboxylic Acids page. Radical reaction
    to create alkanes by decarboxylation and dimerisation of R groups of
    carboxylic acids.
-   Need to finish writing about bond polarities and dipole moment in
    the Bonding section. And then need to discuss Molecular
    Electrostatic Potential maps in Visualization.

## Up for Grabs

The items listed below need to be done, but nobody has claimed them yet.
If you want to claim one, add it to your list.

-   End of chapter problems. Every chapter should have problems for the
    reader to work. Instead of having them on the main chapter page,
    there should be a link to the problem page and a separate link to
    the answers page. We should try to come up with about 50 problems
    per chapter, eventually.

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## Dharav Solanki

I will start contributing to this wikibook within about two months. I
already have concise notes of the subject ready, so that gives me an
impression that a better TO-DO list exists offline for me!

I would be concentrating on other side projects as well, So I request
the other contributors to chisel out the rough works that I submit. I
believe that starting from scratch is a tad too difficult and hence I
would advocate a layered editing rather than submission of already
edited work, because otherwise, the contributions are too scarce.

-   Grabbed - End Of Chapter Problems as well as Intext exercises.

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-   A lot of editing has to be done in the works already submitted. The
    text at many places is loose, in the sense that those having free
    access to a library or a good tutor do not have anything to reap
    from this book, while at the same time they have to stress
    themselves a lot in understanding the latter two.

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-   I feel I\'d edit the text as DIY format at places possible, so that
    some of the newer logic is more like an interactive session rather
    than a dull article.

\--Thewinster
(talk) 08:54, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

i think there HAS to be a individual topics such as amides rather than a
tiny tiny thing thats part of carboxylic acid derivatives. There is alot
of information missing.

