Free Radical Reactions
Free Radical Reactions – Chlorination of Methane Alkanes are pretty boring, chemically speaking. They don’t tend to undergo many reactions. However, when they are treated
Read moreFree Radical Reactions – Chlorination of Methane Alkanes are pretty boring, chemically speaking. They don’t tend to undergo many reactions. However, when they are treated
Read moreFree-Radical Reactions Require Heat Or Light For Initiation (Bond-Breaking) If you come across just a few free-radical reactions, you should notice a familiar pattern. Every
Read moreInitiation, Propagation, and Termination In Free Radical Reactions In the previous post on free radical substitution reactions we talked about why heat or light is
Read moreFree Radical Chlorination: Selectivity This post is all about the selectivity of free-radical halogenation: what does “selectivity” mean, anyway? And how do we calculate it? It’s often
Read moreAllylic Bromination and Benzylic Bromination: What Is It, And How Does It Work? In previous posts on radicals, we’ve seen how bromine can selectively react
Read moreA Summary Of Topics For Free-Radical Reactions So what have we learned in this series about free radicals? Lots of things. We’ve seen that they
Read moreThe 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
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