Staring at a page of skeletal structures and curved arrows can feel a bit like trying to read a map of a city that hasn’t been built yet. If you’re diving into , you’ve moved past simple memorization and into the realm of "chemical intuition."
The most common stumbling block. You can write a mechanism, but can you predict which face of a carbonyl will be attacked? Advanced problems exploit the , Cieplak model , and Felkin-Anh projections. If you cannot draw a Newman projection of a transition state, you will fail to solve 50% of advanced stereochemistry problems.
Account for the stability of the intermediate allylic radicals.
: A collection of single-choice and mechanism-based questions covering electronegativity, orbital hybridization ( sp3s p cubed ), and reactivity.
