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1 The reagents that an organic compound reacts with are sometimes drawn above the arrow. Most organic reactions take place in liquid solvent, which can also be shown over the arrow. The solvent and temperature of the reaction may be added above or below the arrow. The symbols “h” and “” are used for reactions that require light and heat respectively. Writing Equations for Organic Reactions

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• The reagents that an organic compound reacts with are sometimes drawn above the arrow.

• Most organic reactions take place in liquid solvent, which can also be shown over the arrow.

• The solvent and temperature of the reaction may be added above or below the arrow.

• The symbols “h” and “” are used for reactions that require light and heat respectively.

Writing Equations for Organic Reactions

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Kinds of Organic Reactions

• Substitution is a reaction in which an atom or a group of atoms is replaced by another atom or group of atoms.

• Elimination is a reaction in which elements of the starting material are “lost” and a bond is formed.

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• Addition is a reaction in which two reactants combine to form a single product.

• Other types of reactions include Rearrangement, Cyclization, Acid-Base, and Electron Transfer.

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Reaction Mechanisms

• A mechanism is a description of how bonds are broken and formed as starting material is converted into product.

• A reaction can occur either in one step or a series of steps.

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Heterolysis vs Homolysis

• Homolysis and heterolysis both require energy.

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Curved Arrow Symbolism

Bond Making and Bond Breaking

• To illustrate the movement of a single electron, use a half-headed curved arrow, sometimes called a fishhook.

• A full headed curved arrow shows the movement of an electron pair.

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• Radicals and carbocations are electrophiles because they contain an electron deficient carbon.

• Carbanions are nucleophiles because they contain a carbon with a lone pair.

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• Two radicals can each donate one electron to form a two-electron bond.

• Alternatively, two ions with unlike charges can come together, with the negatively charged ion donating both electrons to form the resulting two-electron bond.

• Bond formation always releases energy.

Bond Formation

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Bond Dissociation Energy (BDE)

• The energy absorbed or released in any reaction, symbolized by H0, is called the enthalpy change or heat of reaction.

• BDE is the H0 for a specific kind of reaction—the homolysis of a covalent bond to form two radicals.

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Bond Dissociation Energy• Because bond breaking requires energy, bond dissociation

energies are always positive numbers, and homolysis is always endothermic.

• Conversely, bond formation always releases energy, and thus is always exothermic. For example, the H—H bond requires +104 kcal/mol to cleave and releases –104 kcal/mol when formed.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Bond Dissociation Energy• Comparing bond dissociation energies is equivalent to

comparing bond strength.• The stronger the bond, the higher its bond dissociation energy.• Bond dissociation energies decrease down a column of the

periodic table.• Generally, shorter bonds are stronger bonds.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Bond Dissociation Energy• Bond dissociation energies are used to calculate the enthalpy

change (H0) in a reaction in which several bonds are broken and formed.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Bond Dissociation Energy

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Understanding Organic ReactionsBond Dissociation Energy

Consider the oxidation of isooctane and glucose to yield CO2 and H2O.

H° is negative for both oxidations, so both reactions are exothermic.

• Both isooctane and glucose release energy on oxidation because the bonds in the products are stronger than the bonds in the reactants.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Bond Dissociation Energy

Bond dissociation energies have some important limitations.

• Bond dissociation energies present overall energy changes only. They reveal nothing about the reaction mechanism or how fast a reaction proceeds.

• Bond dissociation energies are determined for reactions in the gas phase, whereas most organic reactions occur in a liquid solvent where solvation energy contributes to the overall enthalpy of a reaction.

• Bond dissociation energies are imperfect indicators of energy changes in a reaction. However, using bond dissociation energies to calculate H° gives a useful approximation of the energy changes that occur when bonds are broken and formed in a reaction.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Thermodynamics• For a reaction to be practical, the equilibrium must favor

products and the reaction rate must be fast enough to form them in a reasonable time. These two conditions depend on thermodynamics and kinetics respectively.

• Thermodynamics describes how the energies of reactants and products compare, and what the relative amounts of reactants and products are at equilibrium.

• Kinetics describes reaction rates.

• The equilibrium constant, Keq, is a mathematical expression that relates the amount of starting material and product at equilibrium.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsThermodynamics• The size of Keq expresses whether the starting materials or

products predominate once equilibrium is reached.

• When Keq > 1, equilibrium favors the products (C and D) and the equilibrium lies to the right as the equation is written.

• When Keq < 1, equilibrium favors the starting materials (A and B) and the equilibrium lies to the left as the equation is written.

• For a reaction to be useful, the equilibrium must favor the products, and Keq > 1.

• The position of the equilibrium is determined by the relative energies of the reactants and products.

G° is the overall energy difference between reactants and products.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Thermodynamics

Figure 6.3Summary of the

relationshipbetween ∆G° and Keq

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Understanding Organic Reactions

ThermodynamicsG° is related to the equilibrium constant Keq by the following

equation:

• When Keq > 1, log Keq is positive, making G° negative, and energy is released. Thus, equilibrium favors the products when the energy of the products is lower than the energy of the reactants.

• When Keq < 1, log Keq is negative, making G° positive, and energy is absorbed. Thus, equilibrium favors the reactants when the energy of the products is higher than the energy of the reactants.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsThermodynamics• Compounds that are lower in energy have increased stability.• The equilibrium favors the products when they are more stable

(lower in energy) than the starting materials of a reaction.

• Because G° depends on the logarithm of Keq, a small change in energy corresponds to a large difference in the relative amount of starting material and product at equilibrium.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsThermodynamics• These equations can be used for any process with two states in

equilibrium. As an example, monosubstituted cyclohexanes exist as two different chair conformations that rapidly interconvert at room temperature, with the conformation having the substituent in the roomier equatorial position favored.

• Knowing the energy difference between two conformations permits the calculation of the amount of each at equilibrium.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsEnthalpy and EntropyG° depends on H° and the entropy change, S°.

• Entropy change, S°, is a measure of the change in the randomness of a system. The more disorder present, the higher the entropy. Gas molecules move more freely than liquid molecules and are higher in entropy. Cyclic molecules have more restricted bond rotation than similar acyclic molecules and are lower in entropy.

S° is (+) when the products are more disordered than the reactants. S° is (-) when the products are less disordered than the reactants.

• Reactions resulting in increased entropy are favored.G° is related to H° and S° by the following equation:

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Enthalpy and Entropy

• This equation indicates that the total energy change is due to two factors: the change in bonding energy and the change in disorder.

• The change in bonding energy can be calculated from bond dissociation energies.

• Entropy changes are important when

The number of molecules of starting material differs from the number of molecules of product in the balanced chemical equation.

An acyclic molecule is cyclized to a cyclic one, or a cyclic molecule is converted to an acyclic one.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Enthalpy and Entropy

• In most other reactions that are not carried out at high temperature, the entropy term (TS°) is small compared to the enthalpy term (H0), and therefore it is usually neglected.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams• An energy diagram is a schematic representation of the energy

changes that take place as reactants are converted to products.• An energy diagram plots the energy on the y axis versus the

progress of reaction, often labeled as the reaction coordinate, on the x axis.

• The energy difference between reactants and products is H°. If the products are lower in energy than the reactants, the reaction is exothermic and energy is released. If the products are higher in energy than the reactants, the reaction is endothermic and energy is consumed.

• The unstable energy maximum as a chemical reaction proceeds from reactants to products is called the transition state. The transition state species can never be isolated.

• The energy difference between the transition state and the starting material is called the energy of activation, Ea.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsEnergy Diagrams• For the general reaction:

• The energy diagram would be shown as:

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Understanding Organic ReactionsEnergy Diagrams• The energy of activation is the minimum amount of energy

needed to break the bonds in the reactants.

• The larger the Ea, the greater the amount of energy that is needed to break bonds, and the slower the reaction rate.

• The structure of the transition state is somewhere between the structures of the starting material and product. Any bond that is partially formed or broken is drawn with a dashed line. Any atom that gains or loses a charge contains a partial charge in the transition state.

• Transition states are drawn in brackets, with a superscript double dagger (‡).

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

Example 1Figure 6.4Some representative

energy diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

Example 2Figure 6.4Some representative

energy diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy DiagramsExample 3Figure 6.4

Some representativeenergy diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

Example 4Figure 6.4Some representative

energy diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy DiagramsFigure 6.5

Comparing ∆H° and Ea in twoenergy diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

• Consider the following two step reaction:

• An energy diagram must be drawn for each step.• The two energy diagrams must then be combined to form an

energy diagram for the overall two-step reaction.• Each step has its own energy barrier, with a transition state at

the energy maximum.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Energy Diagrams

Figure 6.6Complete energy diagram for

the two-step conversion of

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Kinetics

• Kinetics is the study of reaction rates.

• Recall that Ea is the energy barrier that must be exceeded for reactants to be converted to products.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Kinetics

• The higher the concentration, the faster the rate.

• The higher the temperature, the faster the rate.

G°, H°, and Keq do not determine the rate of a reaction. These quantities indicate the direction of the equilibrium and the relative energy of reactants and products.

• A rate law or rate equation shows the relationship between the reaction rate and the concentration of the reactants. It is experimentally determined.

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Understanding Organic ReactionsKinetics• Fast reactions have large rate constants.• Slow reactions have small rate constants.

• The rate constant k and the energy of activation Ea are inversely related. A high Ea corresponds to a small k.

• A rate equation contains concentration terms for all reactants in a one-step mechanism.

• A rate equation contains concentration terms for only the reactants involved in the rate-determining step in a multi-step reaction.

• The order of a rate equation equals the sum of the exponents of the concentration terms in the rate equation.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Kinetics

• A two-step reaction has a slow rate-determining step, and a fast step.

• In a multi-step mechanism, the reaction can occur no faster than its rate-determining step.

• Only the concentration of the reactants in the rate-determining step appears in the rate equation.

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Understanding Organic Reactions

Catalysts

• Some reactions do not proceed at a reasonable rate unless a catalyst is added.

• A catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a reaction. It is recovered unchanged in a reaction, and it does not appear in the product.

Figure 6.7The effect of a catalyst

on a reaction

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Understanding Organic ReactionsEnzymes• Enzymes are biochemical catalysts composed of amino acids

held together in a very specific three-dimensional shape.• An enzyme contains a region called its active site which binds an

organic reactant, called a substrate. The resulting unit is called the enzyme-substrate complex.

• Once bound, the organic substrate undergoes a very specific reaction at an enhanced rate. The products are then released.

Figure 6.8A schematic representation

of an enzyme at work