Chemistry & Chemical Biology
CHEM 5627: Mechanistic and Physical Organic Chemistry
Lecture - 3 credits
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- Surveys foundational concepts of physical organic chemistry, including thermodynamics, kinetics, and solvent and isotope effects.
- Treats structure/reactivity relationships in the context of how they can be used in understanding and predicting organic chemistry mechanisms.
- Topics include conformational analysis, molecular orbital theory, aromaticity, orbital symmetry, and how they are applied to understanding organic and organometallic reactions such as aldol, pericyclic, and other stereoselective reactions.
- Discusses reaction mechanisms that involve intermediates, including anions, cations, radicals, and carbenes.
Surveys foundational concepts of physical organic chemistry, including thermodynamics, kinetics, and solvent and isotope effects. Show more.