Lecture 01 - Mechanism: How Energies and Kinetic Order Influence Reaction Rates. This second semester of Freshman Organic Chemistry builds on the first semester's treatment of molecular structure and energy to discuss
how reaction mechanisms have been discovered and understood. It also treats the spectroscopy and synthesis of organic molecules. Reactions and their rates can be understood in terms of reaction-coordinate diagrams involving
the passage of a set of atoms through the "transition state" on the potential-energy surface. Analysis of bond-dissociation energies suggests a chain mechanism for free-radical halogenation of alkanes. Experimental determination of
kinetic order provides insight into complex reaction schemes, especially when one step is rate-limiting.
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Lecture 01 - Mechanism: How Energies and Kinetic Order Influence Reaction Rates
Time
Lecture Chapters
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1. Introduction and Outline of the Course
[00:04:05]
2. Energy and the Reaction Coordinate
[00:07:31]
3. Bond Strength and the Mechanism of Free-Radical Substitution