ChemistryCode 9701
Characteristic organic reactions
What this topic asks you to be able to do
- interpret the following terms, which relate to kinds of organic compound and reaction, and use them: (a) homologous series (b) saturated and unsaturated compounds (c) homolytic and heterolytic fission (d) free radical, initiation, propagation, termination (e) nucleophile, electrophile, nucleophilic, electrophilic (f) addition, substitution, elimination, hydrolysis, condensation (g) oxidation and reduction (when writing equations for organic redox reactions, [O] may stand for a single oxygen atom provided by an oxidising agent, and [H] for a single hydrogen atom provided by a reducing agent)
- understand the following terms for kinds of organic mechanism, and use them: (a) free-radical substitution (b) electrophilic addition (c) nucleophilic substitution (d) nucleophilic addition (when writing organic reaction mechanisms, show each movement of an electron pair with a curly arrow that starts from a bond or from a lone pair of electrons)