CHAPTER 24
General Organic Chemistry II
Chapter Highlights
Covalent bond fission–Homolytic and Heterolytic: Free radicals, carbocations and carbanions. Stability of carbocations and free radicals. Electrophiles and nucleophiles. Electron displacement in a covalent bond–inductive effect, electromeric effect, resonance. Common types of organic reactions—substitution, addition, elimination, and rearrangement reactions, illustrations with examples and various levels multiple-choice questions.
REACTION INTERMEDIATES AND REACTION MECHANISMS
BOND FISSION
- Bond fission is the process of breaking of covalent bonds present in organic molecules.
- It occurs in the following two ways:
Homolytic Fission or Homolysis
- Bond fission occurs symmetrically in ...
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