Award-Winning Organic Chemistry Tutors
serving Ann Arbor, MI

Having completed both semesters of organic chemistry at the University of Michigan — on top of AP Chemistry before that — Ajay knows exactly where students get stuck, whether it's arrow-pushing in reaction mechanisms or keeping substitution and elimination pathways straight. He teaches students to recognize electron behavior patterns so new reactions feel predictable instead of random.

Reaction mechanisms click when you understand electron movement — why a nucleophile attacks one carbon over another, or how steric hindrance reshapes a synthesis pathway. Vazrik's chemistry degree and doctoral work in materials science mean he can trace organic reactions from their molecular-orbital roots through to real laboratory outcomes, making arrow-pushing feel intuitive rather than arbitrary.

I'm your girl! I majored in Biochemistry at the University of Michigan and am looking to help any students in need of assistance.

I am eternally grateful! I minored in Chemistry after getting interested in the inner workings of organic chemistry. While going to college I earned money by tutoring classes I had already taken. I also offered "supplemental instruction" which were informal classroom question and answer sessions. I worked in a research lab after earning an undergraduate research fellowship and explored Physiology at the School of Medicine. Then went on to study Toxicology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While there a decision appeared clear between focusing on research or teaching. I like teaching better. I truly enjoy spreading knowledge about Biology and Chemistry and finding fun ways to introduce people to these (often difficult) subjects.

I am a PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Windsor. I did both my Undergraduate and Master's degree in Chemistry at the University of Windsor as well. I also did a year and a half of course/research work at Cornell University. I am interested in the academic field and hope to one day hold a position in the academic world to do groundbreaking research and teach the next generation of students the very fundamentals of Chemistry. I love teaching and I have been doing it since 2011. I have taught many students at different levels and from different backgrounds. I like to make sure that students understand concepts rather than memorize. I take my time explaining concepts and always have examples on the top of my head to help understand different problems in Chemistry.

Working in a cancer biology research lab means Yasheen encounters the organic chemistry behind drug design and molecular signaling every day — not as textbook problems, but as real questions about how functional groups determine a molecule's behavior in living systems. She connects that bench-level intuition to the arrow-pushing, stereochemistry, and carbonyl reactivity students need to master in their orgo courses. Rated 5.0 by students.

Reaction mechanisms are the backbone of organic chemistry, and students who try to memorize each one individually run out of mental storage by the second exam. Bintou's chemistry training at Penn taught her to classify reactions by electron behavior — nucleophilic attack, leaving group stability, carbocation rearrangement — so patterns emerge instead of isolated steps. She teaches students to predict products by reading the mechanism, not by recognizing a specific example they've seen before.

Reaction mechanisms are the core of organic chemistry, and most students struggle because they try to memorize arrow-pushing patterns instead of understanding why electrons move where they do. Jamie has tutored organic chemistry extensively alongside his pre-med and medical coursework, and he teaches students to read a mechanism the way you'd read a sentence — identifying the nucleophile, the electrophile, and the driving force before ever drawing an arrow.

Most organic chemistry frustration comes from trying to memorize hundreds of reactions instead of recognizing the handful of electronic patterns — nucleophilic attack, leaving group ability, steric effects — that drive all of them. Garrett teaches students to read arrow-pushing mechanisms as stories about electron movement, which makes predicting products and regiochemistry intuitive. His approach turns reaction maps from overwhelming charts into logical flowcharts.

Penn's pre-health track put Brittany through rigorous chemistry coursework alongside her psychology degree, and she spent her undergraduate years tutoring General Chemistry I and II at the university's Tutoring Center — building the kind of fluency with reaction fundamentals that carries directly into organic mechanisms. She approaches topics like nucleophilic substitution and carbonyl reactivity by connecting them back to the foundational principles of electron behavior and molecular structure, making each new reaction type feel like an extension of something students already know.

Reaction mechanisms become far less intimidating when you can see the electron movement as a story rather than a set of arrows to memorize. Monika's biochemistry degree required deep fluency in organic chemistry — from nucleophilic substitutions through multi-step synthesis — and she teaches students to predict products by understanding why electrons move, not just where.

Four years of tutoring organic chemistry at Yale — while simultaneously doing pre-med coursework — gave Marcus a sharp sense of where students get stuck, particularly with carbonyl reactivity and multi-step synthesis planning. His current research at the Hospital for Special Surgery keeps him actively applying these concepts, so he teaches functional group transformations as interconnected tools rather than an isolated reaction catalog.

Chemical engineering at Cornell meant Rahul didn't just pass organic chemistry — he applied it daily in reactor design, synthesis planning, and thermodynamic analysis of reaction pathways. That engineering lens gives him a distinctive angle on topics like carbonyl chemistry and stereoselectivity, where he ties mechanism logic back to energy landscapes and kinetic versus thermodynamic control. Rated 4.9 by students.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Daniel learned to speak it fluently through his microbiology and dental science training. He walks through arrow-pushing, stereochemistry, and functional group reactivity by emphasizing the "why" behind each electron movement — so students can predict products on exam day instead of relying on memorized templates.

Being on the pre-med track at Northwestern while studying both biology and chemistry means Kade is taking organic chemistry alongside the same students he tutors — he knows which professors emphasize what, which problem sets are brutal, and where the common mistakes hide in topics like stereochemistry and acyl substitution. That proximity to the material gives him a practical, recently-tested understanding of how to break down multi-step synthesis problems into manageable pieces.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and Josef teaches students to read them — arrow pushing, stereochemistry, and functional group reactivity — rather than memorize hundreds of individual reactions. His biochemistry focus at Cornell means he can connect orgo concepts like nucleophilic substitution and carbonyl chemistry directly to biological molecules students will encounter later.

Reaction mechanisms are the language of organic chemistry, and most students struggle because they try to memorize arrows instead of understanding electron flow. Abrahim unpacks each mechanism — SN1 vs. SN2, E1 vs. E2, electrophilic aromatic substitution — by starting with nucleophilicity, sterics, and leaving-group ability so the logic drives the arrow-pushing rather than the other way around. His 5.0 rating speaks to how well that approach clicks.