In Summary

I'd just like to point out that at this present moment, all classes should be aware of the following points:

1. There are four important areas to examine in organic chemistry, compounds, reactions and mechanisms. These are: electronic factors, steric factors, thermodynamic factors and kinetic factors.

2. There are a few major mechanisms with variations. One way to look at the range of mechanisms is: a) look at the attacking species - nucleophile, electrophile, free radical etc; b) look at the outcome - substitution, addition, elimination etc; c) consider the molecularity - likely to be unimolecular or bimolecular. Another way is to put these together and get mechanisms such as free radical substitution, electrophilic addition, electrophilic substitution, Sn1, Sn2, E1, E2 and so on. You should be able to explain all the reactions to some extent at this point, using structural diagrams and arrows.

3. This doesn't take away your responsibility to be able to classify compounds, name the easier ones (8 or fewer carbon, I'd say, but 6 or fewer is OK), and draw them. You should know these kinds at least: alkanes, alkenes, haloalkanes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, amides, acyl halides, acid anhydrides, esters, and simple (one ring) aromatic compounds. It's nice if you know alkynes and other stuff, but we'll cover some of that later on.
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