CHEM4320 : Advanced Organic Chemistry
Dr. Eamonn F. Healy
CHEM4320
course information and syllabus
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for multimedia tutorials on a variety of topics in organic Chemistry
Goal 11
:
Fundamental principles of Molecular Orbital (MO) Theory
Goal 12
:
Fundamental principles of organic mechanisms - pericyclic reactions
Goal 13:
Fundamental principles of organic mechanisms -substitution and elimination reactions
Goal 14:
Comptational chemistry
Philosophy of Organic Chemistry
Should Organic Chemistry be Taught as Science
?.
Organic Chemistry as Representation
.
Heisenber's Chemical Legacy: Resonance
Reaction Mechanisms
Pericyclic
Reactions
Link to pericyclic reactions on the
website
at MSU.
Transition States
SN1 kinetics
JACS Paper
(Ito, T.; Overman, L. E.; Wang, J.
J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2010
,
132,
3272)
Huckel
HuLis
software for Huckel Theory Calculations
Tutorial
in the use of HuLis software calculation applet.
Huckel
calculations using Maple (Article from
J. Chem. Educ.
)
Huckel
calculations using Excel (Article from
J. Chem. Educ.
)
Huckel
Plots using Excel
Marvin Sketch
free drawing software
Project
Readings about the
3-center-2-electron bon
d and
how to represent
it. The
Atoms in Molecules
(AIM) approach to depicting atoms and bonds, and an
alternative
viewpoint.
Project_PartA