CHEM4320 : Advanced Organic Chemistry

Dr. Eamonn F. Healy

• CHEM4320 course information and syllabus
• Click here 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

  1. Should Organic Chemistry be Taught as Science?.
  2. Organic Chemistry as Representation.
  3. Heisenber's Chemical Legacy: Resonance

• Reaction Mechanisms

  1. Pericyclic Reactions
  2. Link to pericyclic reactions on the website at MSU.
  3. Transition States
  4. SN1 kinetics
  5. JACS Paper (Ito, T.; Overman, L. E.; Wang, J. J.    Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 3272)

  Huckel

  1. HuLis software for Huckel Theory Calculations
  2. Tutorial in the use of HuLis software calculation applet.
  3. Huckel calculations using Maple (Article from J. Chem. Educ.)
  4. Huckel calculations using Excel (Article from J. Chem. Educ.)
  5. Huckel Plots using Excel
  6. Marvin Sketch free drawing software

• Project

  1. Readings about the 3-center-2-electron bond and how to represent it. The Atoms in Molecules (AIM) approach to depicting atoms and bonds, and an alternative viewpoint.
  2. Project_PartA