FLASH CARDS FOR ORGANIC CHEMISTRY I

These cards summarize most of the reactions that are encountered in a typical first
semester course in organic chemistry. They are divided into a "Products" set and a
"Reagents" set. The "Products" set will help you to learn to predict the products of the
various reactions you will encounter, whereas, the "Reagents" set will help you to learn
to identify the reagents required for a given organic transformation. It is very
important that you not memorize these reactions. Instead, you should use these cards
to try to understand how these reactions occur, i. e. the mechanism or step-by-step
pathway leading from reactants to products. Therefore, the key elements of the
mechanism of every reaction are also provided. With this knowledge you should be
able to predict the products of similar reactions, to include their regiochemistry as well
as stereochemistry.
The cards are arranged four to a page with the questions on the front and the answers
on the back. To prepare the cards, fold each page vertically and horizontally at the
perforations, and gently tear them apart.