Reading Assignment:

Text:

Chapter 5 - An Overview of Organic Reactions

Study Guide:

Study Guides for each chapter follow the solutions for the problems in each chapter. These Study Guides list the key concepts that you should learn in each chapter and the problems within the chapter which reinforce these concepts.

Chapter 5 (p. 77)

Learning Objectives:

The key points to this chapter are the four basic type of organic reactions, transition states, and the concepts of nucleophiles and electrophiles. You should be able to write basic reaction mechanisms and draw reaction energy diagrams.

Problems Assignment:

Identify Reaction types

5.1, 5.17, 5.18, 5.19

Radical Mechanisms

5.3, 5.4, 5.31

Bond Polarities

5.4, 5.16

Identification of electrophiles and nucleophiles

5.5, 5.20, 5.21

Equilibrium and rate equations/concepts

5.7, 5.8, 5.12, 5.24

Calculate DH of simple reactions

5.10, 5.11, 5.28, 5.29

Draw reaction energy diagrams

5.13, 5.14, 5.22, 5.26, 5.27, 5.37