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Basic Concepts of Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Chemistry · Chapter 20 · Organic Chemistry (Units 8-9: Basic Principles and Techniques, Hydrocarbons)
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- Types of reactions: substitution, addition and elimination
- Homolytic and heterolytic fission; free radicals, carbocations and carbanions and their relative stabilities
- Electrophiles and nucleophiles, including neutral ones
- Electron displacement effects: inductive, electromeric, mesomeric (resonance) effects and hyperconjugation
- Free radical and polar mechanisms: SN1, SN2, E1 and E2 with conditions and examples