CH630 Advanced Organic Chemistry ( CRN 12618 ) Materials Used in Lecture

Materials Used in Lectures

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What should a CH630 student know to start with?
Course syllabus
Exam Information
Homework sets

Introductory topics:

• Drawing Conventions
• Visualizing molecules in the diamond lattice
• An alternative page for matching 2D/3D structures
• Bonding Theories and Resonance Structures
• Stereochemistry
• A values for Cyclohexanes
• Steric comparisons
  
• Baldwin's ring closure rules

Visualization of structural effects in carbocation chemistry:

• The Hammond Postulate
• Conjugation
• Hyperconjugation
• Structure and Electronics of Protonated Epoxides
• Π donation
• Stereochemical consequences of neighboring group participation
• Other miscellaneous effects
• Leaving Groups
• Solvation Effects
• Substituent Effects:
• Chem Rev paper on Sigma Values
• KPG paper on substituent effects
• Curved Hammett Plots:  paper 1
• paper 2
• paper 3
• Molecular vibrations and isotope effects

Carbanion chemistry:

• Acidity of Representative Bronsted Acids
• Aggregation in methyllithium
• Enolates and Enamines

Carbene chemistry:

singlet vs. triplet structure

Radical chemistry:

Delocalization in Radical Anions