Radical halogenation of alkanes is one of those reactions that instructors sometimes cover in the beginning of the organic chemistry sequence, or at the very end of it. Either way, this is one of those obscure reactions that you are definitely going to see on your MCAT and ACS tests, so let's go through the details of the mechanism and the regioselectivity of the radical reaction!

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