Understanding Organic Reaction Mechanisms (Jacobs, Adam)

Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis Postgraduate Chemistry Series

Reasoning and Representation: the Sketching of Organic Chemical Reaction Mechanisms

For nearly a century organic chemists have developed a method of sketching chemical reaction mechanisms in order to reason-out the structural transformations that convert one set of molecules into another. Known informally as pushing electrons (or curly arrows), it is a form of chemical illustration in which a sequence of structures is drawn to represent the movement of electrons and nuclei fro...

High-performance photorefractive organic glasses: understanding mechanisms and limitations

Since the first observation of the photorefractive (PR) effect in polymers, extensive efforts have been directed toward understanding the physics of the PR process in these systems, as well as optimizing polymer composites and glasses for various applications. Despite remarkable progress both in elucidating the mechanisms and processes contributing to the PR effect and in designing organic mate...

Understanding mechanisms of asphaltene adsorption from organic solvent on mica.

The adsorption process of asphaltene onto molecularly smooth mica surfaces from toluene solutions of various concentrations (0.01-1 wt %) was studied using a surface forces apparatus (SFA). Adsorption of asphaltenes onto mica was found to be highly dependent on adsorption time and asphaltene concentration of the solution. The adsorption of asphaltenes led to an attractive bridging force between...

A physical organic mechanistic approach to understanding the complex reaction network of hemostasis (blood clotting)

Copyright # 20 ABSTRACT: This review focuses on how the mechanistic approach of physical organic chemistry can be used to elucidate the mechanisms behind complex biochemical networks. The dynamics of biochemical reaction networks is difficult to describe by considering their individual reactions, just as the dynamics of organic reactions is difficult to describe by considering individual electr...