[jacky_811]

what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms?
 

[nj_bartel]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

1) Understand acid base relationships, electronegativity, and resonance.
2) Curly arrows go from electrons to an atom or bond.

[azmanam]

read this book and read it now.  It is the single best book for learning about organic mechanisms.  It (literally) changed my chemical life. no joke

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Reasonable-Organic-Reaction-Mechanisms/dp/0387954686

[ufalynn88]

yeah I don't really know what your question is asking...but yes, a good way to remember that the arrow goes from the electrons to the atom/bond/etc is that you "take from the rich, give to the poor". (rich being electron rich clearly)

other than that Acid/Base is #1....
then its electronics, sterics, and lastly hydrogen bonding

my professor gave us a protocol he called "factors that govern chemical change"..it went
1. size
2. electronegativity
3. resonance
4. neighboring group effect
(thanks portmess!)