effiekong Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 Can someone please please explain the mechanisms part of organic chemistry to me? As in addition reaction and all that jazz. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Lc~ Posted April 7, 2008 Report Share Posted April 7, 2008 mechanisms of which group exactly? all of them? <insert shocked face here> Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandiloquence Posted April 12, 2008 Report Share Posted April 12, 2008 Do you have specific problems understanding the parts of these reactions? There are some very useful animations that I'm sure you could find to help you if you google specific mechanisms. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freshWiz Posted April 14, 2008 Report Share Posted April 14, 2008 Try this file: [url="http://www.mwiseman.com/courses/chem_ib/notes/organic/OrganicReactions.doc"]http://www.mwiseman.com/courses/chem_ib/no...icReactions.doc[/url] It really sums everything up. Good luck! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBStuck Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 the mechanism is just the step-by-step drawing of how the reation is going to occur. it is the part where you show your curly arrows. likke in a free radical type of reaction in UV light you would use curly arrows to show where the free radical was going to. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
booji Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 As others have said, a mechanism in organic chemistry simply refers to the sequence of molecular events that take place in the conversion of the reactant into the product. Depending on the kinetics and rate order, a mechanism can occur by many steps, each representing a potential well in the reaction coordinate, and thus corresponding to intermediates. Generally in organic chemistry, most reactions involve either a Bronstad-Lowry/Lewis acid or base and proceed by SN1, SN2, E1, or E2 mechanisms (i.e. monomolecular/biomolecular nucleophilic substitution/elimination, respectively). Obviously, each functional group is going to represent unique chemical properties on which reagents will act, and thus if you can narrow your question down to a specific area, (i.e. carbonyl chemistry, or alcohols, etc.) it would be more helpful. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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