10.1A Production of Radicals 10.2A Homolytic Bond Dissociation Energies and Heats of Reaction

Acid-Catalyzed hydration of Alkenes Oxymercuration-Demeruration Hydroboration-Oxidation

11.15A Ethers by Intermolecular Dehydration of Alcohols

Alcohols are compounds whose molecules have a hydroxyl group attached to a saturated carbon atom

Many other pairs of reagents that form cabocations (orcarbocationlike species) may be used as well

17.7 Lithium Enolates 17.8 α-Selenation: A Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds 17.9 Additions to α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes and Ketones

Substitution reactions occur when two reactants exchange parts to give two new products. In a substitution, one replaces another

Infrared Spectroscopy: An Instrumental Method for detecting Functional Groups

21.11 Aryl Halide and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution 21.12 Spectroscopic Analysis of Phenols and Aryl Halides

If a chiral atom attached to the carbonyl group, the stereoselectivity of nucleophilic addition follows the Cram’s rule