ABSTRACT
Synthetic chemistry involves the combination of chemicals to produce new products. Organic chemistry employs the use of curved arrows, or electron-pushing arrows, to show the flow of electrons that explains the transformation of reactants into products. In this chapter, students are introduced to the curved-arrow formalism and led through an extended example explaining their use in detail. This chapter also introduces students to solvents, the continuous liquid phase used to conduct most reactions, with a brief description of the intermolecular forces at play.
