UH ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Chapter 4: Reactions Intro
Brief Summary
- Tips for studying Organic REACTIONS
- Type of Reactions & intermediates
- Process: Mechanism, Thermodynamics, & Kinetics
- First Organic Reaction: Free Radical Halogenation
- Initiation, Propagation, Termination
- Thermodynamics: Keq & Free Energy
- Equilibrium Constants
- Gibb's Free Energy
- Bond Dissociation Energy
- Kinetics: Reaction Rates and Activation Factors
- Energy Diagrams
- Anatomy:
- Intermediates, Transition States, & Rate-determining step (RDS)
- Stability of carbon intermediates:
- Radicals, carbocations, carbanions, carbenes
- Selectivity vs Reactivity
- Hammond's Postulate
- Anatomy: