chlorination

Reaction Friday: Free-radical chlorination of alkanes

Reaction Friday: Free-radical chlorination of alkanes

January 13, 2012

One of the new things I wanted to do this year was to start doing videos. Since I was starting to run out of reagents to talk about for Reagent Friday, one thought was to start talking about reactions instead – and maybe make a video for each. So today starts a new experiment: Reaction [...]

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Introduction to Free Radical Substitution Reactions

Introduction to Free Radical Substitution Reactions

October 25, 2011

The four posts on acid-base, substitution, addition, and elimination covered the 4 main reactions in organic chemistry I. In this second series of posts we go beyond these to introduce a few of the less common (but still important) reactions you learn in organic chemistry 1. We talked about rearrangements last time: today let’s talk about free-radical substitution, and leave cleavage (oxidative [...]

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