Core organic routes
Alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, haloalkanes, oxidation and two-stage synthesis.
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OCR A organic chemistry
Practise reagents, conditions and one-, two- and three-step routes from the OCR A specification. Choose Year 12, Year 13 or the full course before starting.
Alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, haloalkanes, oxidation and two-stage synthesis.
Carbonyls, nitriles, amines, carboxylic acids, acyl chlorides, esters and amides.
The reagent rack follows OCR A content, including SOCl₂, nitrile chemistry and multi-stage routes.
Organic Conversion Match lets you select the exact OCR A topics you have covered before it builds the reagent bank.
Use the OCR reactions and the number of steps requested. The feedback checks reviewed routes, not every chemically possible sequence.
Year 12 questions use the core OCR A reactions of alkanes, alkenes, alcohols and haloalkanes. Year 13 adds carbonyl reduction and addition, nitrile chemistry, amines, carboxylic acids, esters, acyl chlorides and amides.
Some paper routes are chemically possible but poor in the laboratory because they form mixtures. The feedback flags those cases as poor preparations.