Chemistry 202: Organic Reaction Mechanisms II (Winter 2014, UC Irvine) | Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Chemistry 202: Organic Reaction Mechanisms II

Chemistry 202: Organic Reaction Mechanisms II (Winter 2014, UC Irvine). Instructor: Professor David Van Vranken. Topics include the shape of frontier molecular orbitals, nucleophilic sigma bonds, the organic chemistry of phosphorus and sulfur, pericyclic reactions, ene reactions, electrocyclic reactions, sigmatropic reactions, kinetics, rate equations, selectivity and reaction coordinate-energy diagrams, transition state theory, and radical reactions.

Introduction

Lecture 01 - Introduction

Lecture 02 - A Review of Orbitals

Lecture 03 - The Shape of Frontier Molecular Orbitals

Lecture 04 - Nucleophilic Sigma Bonds

Lecture 05 - Nucleophilic Sigma Bonds (cont.)

Lecture 06 - The Organic Chemistry of Phosphorus

Lecture 07 - Phosphorus Chemistry (cont.), The Organic Chemistry of Sulfur

Lecture 08 - The Organic Chemistry of Sulfur (cont.), Pericyclic Reactions

Lecture 09 - Pericyclic Reactions: The Diels-Alder Reaction

Lecture 10 - Pericyclic Reactions: The Diels-Alder Reaction (cont.)

Lecture 11 - Beyond [4+2] Cycloadditions

Lecture 12 - Retrocycloadditions, Ene Reactions

Lecture 13 - Electrocyclic Reactions

Lecture 14 - Electrocyclic Reactions (cont.), Sigmatropic Reactions

Lecture 15 - Sigmatropic Reactions (cont.)

Lecture 16 - Kinetics and Rate Equations

Lecture 17 - Rate Equations (cont.), Selectivity and Reaction Coordinate-Energy Diagrams

Lecture 18 - Selectivity and Reaction Coordinate-Energy Diagrams

Lecture 19 - Selectivity (cont.), Transition State Theory

Lecture 20 - Transition State Theory, Temperature, and Half-Lives

Lecture 21 - Mechanistic Tools

Lecture 22 - Radical Structure and Reactivity

Lecture 23 - Radical Reactions

References

Chem 202: Organic Reaction Mechanisms II
Instructor: Professor David Van Vranken. Lectures. Problem Sets. Resources. Files. Outline for Organic Reaction Mechanisms I and II.