Ways to Approach Reaction Mechanisms

[Petrina Kan 2I]

At the end of Friday 3/6 lecture, Dr. Lavelle discussed ways to approach proposed reaction mechanisms. However, I remember him saying that we would never use these methods (or something along those lines). So should we know these approaches?

[Alex Chen 2L]

We shouldn't need to know how to do such approaches. I believe he was just giving us background or addressing something we might have read in the textbook.

[christabellej 1F]

I think he was just explaining how there were multiple ways to approach seeing whether certain reaction mechanisms are valid.However, we don't have to know them except for the preequilibrium approach.

[Kishan Shah 2G]

yes, and he said he will teach pre-equilibrium approach to us in todays lecture!