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The chapters that follow this one will be devoted largely to the description of specific organic reactions. The development of a working understanding of organic chemistry requires the mastery of certain fundamental reaction types that occur in a wide variety of individual reactions. Most organic reactions occur in several steps; these steps constitute the reaction mechanism. Knowledge of the detailed mechanism of a reaction often reveals close relationships between reactions that otherwise might appear to be unrelated. In this chapter, the ways in which the study of organic reactions are carried out in order to determine reaction mechanisms will be discussed. The chapter considers the types ofexperimental studies that provide data and the methods by which it is possible to develop information about reaction mechanisms from such data.1
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Carey, F.A., Sundberg, R.J. (1977). Study and Description of Organic Reaction Mechanisms. In: Advanced Organic Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8882-5_4
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