Organic Chemistry Made Easy

Free Radicals Practice Problems
FREE RADICALS SUMMARY SHEET

Table of Contents
- Propagation, Termination, Initiation
- Which free radical is most stable?
- Which C-H bonds require the most energy to break?
- Mechanisms for free-radical reactions
- How many products?
- What’s the major product of these reactions?
- Thermodynamics
- Relative reactivity
- Reaction energy coordinatees
- Resonance forms and arrow-pushing
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