Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5: AN OVERVIEW OF ORGANIC REACTIONS I. Organic Reactions


 * What occurs: Products


 * Why it occurs: Driving force


 * How it occurs: Reaction mechanism

II. General Types of Organic Reactions III. Types of Bond Breakage IV. Homolysis and Free Radical Reactions V. Heterolysis, Nucleophiles and Electrophiles VI. Thermodynamics and Kinetics : Studies of Reaction Equilibria, Rates and Energy Changes
 * Addition Reactions
 * Elimination Reactions
 * Substitution Reactions
 * Rearrangement Reactions
 * Homolytic Bond Cleavage: Formation of free radicals
 * Heterolytic Bond Cleavage: Formation of an electron deficient species and an electron rich species.
 * General Mechanism: Chain Reaction (Self-sustaining reaction)
 * Homolytic Bond Dissociation Energy ( delta H  or  D)
 * Nucleophiles: Electron rich (donates electron pair in bonding)
 * Electrophiles: Electron deficient (accepts electron pair in bonding)


 * Thermodynamics: Reaction favorability


 * Kinetics: Reaction rates


 * Equilibria and Energy Equations and Diagrams


 * Energy Changes and Reaction Favorability