CHEMISTRY 430
Tentative Lecture Schedule
Fall Term, 2008
1. To bond
or not to bond... ()
a. Anorbital by any other name ()
b. Resonatingwith resonance ()
c. Thislittle light of mine... ()
2. What's the big deal aboutmechanisms? ()
a. Arose
is a rose is a rose...
b. Whatthey didn't tell me in kindergarten
3. All together now.... Concertedreactions (
a. Isay,
you say, they all say
b. Ringsopen and chains close (electrocyclicreactions)
c. Twoby two or two by
four (cycloadditionand
cycloreversion reactions)
d. Thegrass is greener (sigmatropicreactions)
4. Pushyou, pull me (linear free energyrelationships)
5. Birds migrate, why not carbons?()
a. Carboniumions, carbenium ions, carbocations; a rose is a
rose is a rose(reprised)
b. Goodfences make good neighbors(neighboring
group effects and "nonclassical" cations)
6. The organic chemistry shoppingnetwork
a. Choose one fromGroup A... ()
i. review
ii. overview
iii. alkylations
iv. aldolcondensations
v. Claisenand Dieckmann
condensations
vi. conjugateadditions
vii. Michaeladditions
viii. ylids
b. Black and white orcolor (azo dyes and acid-base
indicators) ()
c. Biologically interesting molecules()
7. It'sall in the design.Syntheses.