Organic Chemistry 201

Chapter 5   An Overview of Organic Reactions

The following are items that you need to know for Exam II:

Types of Reactions: Addition, Elimination, Substitution and Rearrangement

Rate of Reaction

Kinetics: first order and second reactions

Thermodynamics: Gibbs free energy (DG), enthalpy (DH), entropy (DS),

energy of activation (DG+)

Reaction mechanisms: TEP and SEP

Heterolytic-heterogenic (polar) bond breaking and making (TEP)

Homolytic-homogenic (radical) bond breaking and making (SEP)

Free-Radical Reaction (FRS)-halogenation of methane , mechanism and parameters

Bond Dissociation Energy (bd) and Heat of Reaction (calculation of (DH)