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How (and why) electrons flow

and specific? I’ve been going through Daniel Levy’s excellent book “Arrow Pushing in Organic Chemistry” (fuller review to come). The following excerpt nicely summarizes the driving force for electron flow…

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Hammond’s Postulate

Last week Diana left this comment: I recently had my first orgo exam and one of the concepts that I have trouble visceralizing is Hammond’s Postulate. I can follow the…

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What’s a Transition State?

…An intermediate is a species at an energy minimum in a reaction coordinate, and is (in theory) isolable. Carbocations and free-radicals are examples of intermediates. Transition State = The Point…

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How to Get An A In Organic Chemistry

…my own afterwards. Working with another class mate. Coming up with games to help cement the information. For example my girlfriend and i made a synthesis game where we started…

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Reagent Friday: Raney Nickel

Guide”, available here as a downloadable PDF. The Reagents App is also available for iPhone, click on the icon below! Image credit (Advanced) References And Further Reading CYCLIC KETONES FROM…

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Reagent Friday: Sodium (Na)

…You can read about the chemistry of Na and more than 80 other reagents in undergraduate organic chemistry in the “Organic Chemistry Reagent Guide”, available here as a downloadable PDF….

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