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Contents
FOREWORD xi
PREFACE xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
1. A Collection of Basic Concepts 1
1.1 Nucleophiles and Electrophiles: The S 2 Paradigm 2
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1.2 What Makes for a Good Nucleophile? 5
1.3 Hard and Soft Acids and Bases: The HSAB Principle 8
1.4 pK Values: What Makes for a Good Leaving Group? 9
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1.5 Redox Potentials 11
1.6 Thermodynamic Control: Bond Dissociation Energies (BDEs) 11
1.7 Bimolecular -Elimination (E2) 14
1.8 Proton Transfers (PTs) 15
1.9 Elementary Associative and Dissociative Processes (A and D) 16
1.10 Two-Step Ionic Mechanisms: The S 2-Si Pathway 19
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1.11 Two-Step Ionic Mechanisms: The S 1 and E1 Pathways 20
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1.12 Electrophilic Addition to Carbon–Carbon Multiple Bonds 22
1.13 Electrophilic Substitution on Aromatics: Addition–Elimination 23
1.14 Nucleophilic Addition to Carbon–Heteroatom Multiple Bonds 24
1.15 Carbanions and Related Synthetic Intermediates 26
1.16 Carbenes 29
1.17 Oxidative Additions and Reductive Eliminations 30
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