At the end of this activity, students should be able to describe homolytic and heterolytic fission of a covalent bond, explain free-radical chain reactions, discuss the stability of free radicals, define electrophiles and nucleophiles, describe the formation of carbocations and discuss their stability, explain the mechanisms of: electrophilic addition, electrophilic substitution, nucleophilic substitution (SN1 and SN2) , nucleophilic elimination (E1 and E2), nucleophilic addition and nucleophilic addition-elimination and describe the most common oxidants and reductants used in organic syntheses, and give examples of specific uses of these reagents.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.