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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alkanes,
chlorination,
Cl2,
free radicals,
halogenation,
Reaction Friday
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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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alkyl halides,
chlorination,
free radicals,
homolytic cleavage,
initiation,
radical stability,
substitution
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