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Organic Lesson 36 "How Reactions Occur: Mechanisms"

Science and Technology Standards:

PA Standard 3.4.12A: Apply concepts about the structure and properties of matter.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.1.1: Analyze and explain the nature of science in the search for understanding the natural world and its connection to technological systems.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.1.2: Identify and analyze the scientific or technological challenges of societal issues; propose possible solutions and discuss implications.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.1.3: Describe and interpret patterns of change in natural and human-made systems.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.2.1: Apply knowledge of scientific investigation or technological design to develop or critique aspects of the experimental or design process.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.2.2: Evaluate appropriate technologies for a specific purpose, or describe the information the instrument can provide.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.3.2: Compare observations of the real.

Anchor Assessment S11.A.3.3: Compare and Analyze repeated processes or recuring elements in patterns.

Anchor Assessment S11.B.1.1: Explain structure and function at multiple levels of organization.

Anchor Assessment S11.C.1.1: Explain the relationship between the structure an properties of matter.

Purpose:

1. I will identify homolytic/homogenic ("radical") and heterolytic/heterogenic ("polar") reactions along with electrophiles and nucleophiles.

Homework Due:

1. Problems 3.6 - 3.9

Handouts/Supplies:

1. No handouts

I. Introduction

Opening Assignment:

Warm-Up: Draw an alkene with four different groups and name it.
Review warm-up
State the purpose

II. The Lesson:

Activity #1: Review problems 3.6 - 3.9
Activity #2: Review section 3.5 "Kinds of Organic Reactions"
Activity #3: Identify types of reactions in the textbook (pages 82, 110, 126, 127, 158, & 163)
Activity #4: Read section 3.6 "How Reactions Occur: Mechanisms"
Activity #5: Complete practice problems to identify homolytic/homogenic ("radical") and heterolytic/heterogenic ("polar") reactions along with electrophiles and nucleophiles
Activity #6: Discuss polar reactions, electron movement, and carbocation formation
Activity #7: Complete notes for sections 3.7 "The Mechanism of an Organic Reaction: Addition of HCl to Ethylene"
Activity #8: Complete notes for sections 3.8 "Describing a Reaction: Reaction Energy Diagrams and Transition States"
Activity #9: Complete notes for sections 3.9 "Describing a Reaction: Intermediates"
Activity #10: Complete problems 3.10 - 3.13

III. Closure:

Summary Assignment:

Summarize today's lesson
1. identify identify homolytic/homogenic ("radical") and heterolytic/heterogenic ("polar") reactions along with electrophiles and nucleophiles.

Homework Assignment (Write down in planners):

1. Section 3.7 - 3.9 Notes
2. Problems 3.10 - 3.13

Preview of Next Class:

1. Radical and Polar Reactions

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