This MCAT Organic Chemistry Reactions Study Guide tutorial provides many examples, questions, and practice problems about reactions and their mechanisms.

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Here is a list of topics:
1. Addition of 1.2 vs 1.4 HBr to 1,3-butadiene – Thermodynamic vs kinetic product
2. Diels Alder Reaction – 4 2 Cycloadditon Reaction
3. Benzene Reactions – Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions
4. Addition-elimination or elimination-addition mechanism
5. Nitration, sulfonation, bromination, chlorination and iodination reactions
6. Friedel Crafts Alkylation and Acylation Reaction Mechanisms
7. Diazotization of aniline and arene diazonium salts – Sandmeyer reaction
8. Benzyne Intermediate Complex vs Meisenheimer
9. Ortho Para Directors vs Meta Directors
10. Reactions of aldehydes and ketones
11. Ozonolysis reaction
12. Oxidation of alcohols to ketones, aldehydes and carboxylic acids
13. Reduction of nitrile to ketone using a Grignard reagent
14. Imine vs Enamine – Primary and Secondary Amines with Ketones and Schiff Bases
15. Tollen’s Reagent Test – Aldehyde Selectivity
16. 2,4-DNP test for carbonyl functional groups
17. Wittig's reaction
18. Carboxylic acid derivative reactions – acid chlorides, anhydrides, amides and esters
19. Transesterification reaction and acid-base hydrolysis of esters and amides
20. Cycle opening reactions of lactones and lactams
21. Direct Alkylation of Ketones Using LDA and NaH with CH3Br – Thermodynamic Ion vs Kinetic Enolate
22. Alpha hydrogen substitution reactions
23. Mechanisms of alpha halogenation reaction with Br2, Cl2 and I2 using hydroxide catalyst
24. Haloform reaction and HVZ Hell reaction Volhard Zelinski
25. The Stork Reaction – Direct Alkylation of Ketones Using Enamines
26. Iodoform Test for Methyl Ketones – Yellow Precipitate
27. Aldol condensation reaction
28. Mixed aldol reaction and retro-aldol mechanism – catalyzed by a base
29. Canizzaro reaction mechanism
30. Condensation reaction of Claisen esters – Formation of beta-keto esters
31. Acetoacetic ester synthesis reaction to produce substituted ketones
32. Decarboxylation of beta-ketocarboxylic acids
33. Malonic Ester Synthesis Reaction – Formation of Substituted Carboxylic Acid Compounds
34. Robinson Cancellation Reaction
35. Michael’s Reaction – Giver vs Accepter
36. Intramolecular cyclic reaction mechanism of aldol
37. Dieckmann condensation reaction followed by acid hydrolysis and decarboxylation to produce cyclohexanone

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