Moving into the second semester of Organic Chemistry - What you need to bring with you
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Successful completion of the first term of Organic Chemistry means you should have a basic handle on what structures are possible, what constitutes reactivity and stability, and which pathways are open to organic molecules when they react.
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The second semester continues the discussion of the important functional groups while expanding the toolbox of useful synthetic transformations and the scope of mechanistic possibilities.
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To be successful in the second term it is essential that the student knows the basics from the first semester. Below is a series of the most important mechanisms studied previously, the features of which show up repeatedly in the second half of the course.