The exhaustive list of topics in Organic Reaction Mechanism in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Structure and reactivity.
- Molecular orbitals of common functional groups such as carbonyl, polyenes, aromatic molecules.
- Terms and terminologies: acids, bases, electrophiles, nucleophiles, hard and soft acid concept as applied to organic molecules.
- Thermodynamic and kinetic considerations: Enthalpy and free energy of reactions, order and molecularity, rate of reactions and the rate-determining step.
- Stereochemical considerations: Asymmetric carbons, compounds with one, two or more stereogenic centers. Enantiomers and diastereomers. Racemic mixtures.
- Determination of reaction mechanisms. Kinetic isotope effects.
- Aliphanic Nucleophilic substitution reactions: SN1, SN2, SNi mechanisms. Classification of nucleophiles, effect of solvents and other factors affecting the substitution reactions.
- Elimination Reactions: beta-eliminations. E1, E2 and E1cB mechanisms with commonly employed substrates. Stereochemical considerations. Examples involving both aliphatic and alicyclic compounds. Alpha-eliminations and generation of carbine.
- Addition Reactions: Electrophilic and nucleophilic additions to olefins, dienes and acetylenes. Examples such as epoxidation will be discussed in detail. Markonikoff and anti-Markonikoff additions.
- Substitution reactions in aromatic compounds: Electrophilic substitutions such as nitration, sulphonation, halogenation etc., Nucleophilic substitution reactions of activated aromatic nuclei. Generation of benzynes and its reactions. Ortho-lithiation reaction and its application.
- Reactions involving carbonyl compounds: (a) Nucleophilic addition reactions (b) reactions arising due to alpha-acidic protons (c) carboxylic acid and acid derivatives (d) mechanistic classification of ester hydrolysis.
- Molecular rearragements: Rearrangements involving electron deficient carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. Classical and non-classical carbocatons. Importance of cross over experiments in determining migratory preferences and rearrangement reactions.
- Reactions involving carbon radicals: stabilities of radicals, importance radicals in polymerization reactions.
- Mechanism of oxidations and reductions using commonly employed reagents.