FLASH CARDS FOR ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I

These cards summarize most of the reactions that are encountered in a typical firstsemester course in organic chemistry. They are divided into a ""Products"" set and a ""Reagents"" set. The ""Products"" set will help you to learn to predict the products of thevarious reactions you will encounter, whereas, the ""Reagents"" set will help you to learnto identify the reagents required for a given organic transformation. It is veryimportant that you not memorize these reactions. Instead, you should use these cardsto try to understand how these reactions occur, i. e. the mechanism or step-by-steppathway leading from reactants to products. Therefore, the key elements of themechanism of every reaction are also provided. With this knowledge you should beable to predict the products of similar reactions, to include their regiochemistry as wellas stereochemistry. The cards are arranged four to a page with the questions on the front and the answerson the back. To prepare the cards, fold each page vertically and horizontally at theperforations, and gently tear them apart.