Hundreds of named reactions become manageable once you understand a handful of core ideas about electrons and intermediates.
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MockZi Academic Team
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Organic Chemistry looks like a list of reactions to memorise. In reality, most reactions follow a few patterns about where electrons are and where they want to go.
Master these ideas first
Inductive, resonance and hyperconjugation effects – they decide stability.
Nucleophiles and electrophiles – who attacks whom.
Stability of carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.
Common mechanisms: substitution, elimination and addition.
