definitions

• atom economy

  (sum of molar masses of desired products)/(sum of molar masses of all products)
• chiral carbon


  a carbon atom attached to four different atoms or groups of atoms
• electrophile


  electron pair acceptor
• fingerprint region


  an area of an infrared spectrum below 1500xom^-1 that gives a characteristic pattern for different compounds
• fragment ions 


  ions formed from the breakdown of the molecular ion in a mass spectrometer
• fragmentation


  the process in mass spec that causes a positive ion to split into smaller pieces
• heterolytic fission 


  the breaking of a covalent bond with both of the bonded electrons going to each atom, forming a cation and anion
• homolytic fission


  the breaking of a covalent bond with one of the bonded electrons going to each atom, forming two radicals
• nucleophile 


  electron pair donor