Chapter 5: Pushing Curly Arrows

Fundamental Principles:

There are a few important ideas to have before starting to exlpore curly arrows...

1. Electrostatics : From introductory physics : Columb's law = opposite charges attract

2. Lewis structures : From introductory chemistry : Lewis structures show us the locations of the valence electrons (bonding or non-bonding)

3. Line diagrams : From organic chemistry, each line represents a covalent bond which is a pair of electrons. Get into the habit of showing lone pairs, especially on N and O atoms

4. Formal charges : From introductory chemistry : always show them and track them (more on this later)

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