General Organic Reactions
Organic reactions usually occur at sites within molecules where there is a special availability or deficiency of electrons. Electrophiles are regions of a molecule or ion that are positive or deficient in electrons and which tend to attract electron-rich species and accept electrons in a chemical reaction. Nucleophiles are electron-rich, provide electrons in a chemical reaction, and tend to attract electron-deficient or positive species. In this part of organic chemistry, we will discuss the main aspects of general organic reaction that are briefly shown below.
Electron-deficient or positive species.
Structure, reactivity and mechanism
Energetics, kinetics, and the investigation of the mechanism
The strengths of the acids and bases
Nucleophilic substitution at a saturated carbon atom
Carbocations, electron deficient nitrogen and oxygen atoms and their reactions
Electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution in aromatic systems
Electrophilic and nucleophilic addition to C=C
Nucleophilic addition to C=O
Elimination Reactions
Carbanions and their reactions
Radical and their reactions
Symmetry controlled reactions
Linear free energy relationships