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Title: what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms
Post by: jacky_811 on April 19, 2009, 05:52:27 AM

what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms?
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Title: Re: what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms
Post by: nj_bartel on April 19, 2009, 11:38:26 AM

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.

Title: Re: what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms
Post by: azmanam on April 19, 2009, 02:00:21 PM

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

Title: Re: what are the skills on outlining organic mechanisms
Post by: ufalynn88 on April 19, 2009, 02:02:11 PM

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!)