Lecture 15 objectives and skills
- Name substituted benzenes using IUPAC rules.
- Identify ortho/para & meta directing groups and activating/deactivating groups.
- Explain the rate/regiochemistry outcomes using inductive effects and resonance structures.
- Understand/interpret/draw reaction coordinate diagrams to describe rate and regiochemistry effects.
- Rationalize reactivity trends for substituted benzenes.
- Synthesize benzenes with multiple substituents, utilizing rate/regiochemistry rules.
- Combine all known reactions to solve synthesis problems.
Skills
- Critical assessment using abstract concepts
- Outcome predictions
- Comparisons of fine details
- Building knowledge libraries