Course Description

CH336: Physical Organic Chemistry

This course is designed to give juniors in chemistry an insight of bonding and conformational analysis, nucleophilic substitution at carbon, elimination and addition reactions, carbene chemistry and cycloaddition reaction.

Topics include: Structure and mechanism, aliphatic nucleophilic substitution, elimination reactions, addition reactions, aromatic electrophilic substitution, molecular rearrangement, aliphatic radical substitution, pericyclic reaction, kinetic studies, linear Gibbs energy relations, acid bases, and reaction medium.