Sandbox for Advanced Organic Chemistry by Kelly Butler

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Introduction to Qualitative Molecular Orbital Theory		   5/15/10   07/01/10    
2
Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions		   5/15/10   07/01/10    
3A
Electrocyclic Reactions and Molecular Orbitals		   5/15/10   07/01/10    
3B
Correlation Diagrams		   5/18/10   07/01/10    
4A
Stereochemistry of Cycloadditions and Cycloreversions		   5/15/10   07/01/10    
4B
Diels-Alder Reactions		   6/28/10   07/01/10    
5A
Benzene and Möbius Benzene 		  5/15/10   07/01/10    
5B
Aromatic Transition State Theory		   6/26/10   07/01/10    
6A
Sigmatropic Rearrangements		   5/15/10   07/01/10    
6B
Alkyl Shifts		  

6/26/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
7A
The Cope Rearrangement I		  

6/26/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
7B
The Cope Rearrangement II		  

5/15/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
8
Polar Mechanisms		  

5/15/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
9
Isotopic Substitution as a Tool for Determining Mechanisms 		 

6/26/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
10A
 Hammett Plots		  

5/15/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
10B
More Hammett Plots		  

5/15/10  6/28/10

   07/01/10    
11A
Review of Lewis Acids, Lewis Bases, Electrophiles, and Nucleophiles 		 

6/28/10

   07/01/10    
11B
Hard Soft Acid Base Theory 		  6/28/10   07/01/10    
12
Topicity Relationships		       07/01/10    
13
Ring Closures		       07/01/10    

 

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# Activity  # Title
1 1 Introduction to Qualitative Molecular Orbital Theory (What can MO theory do for us that VSEPR theory cannot?)
2 2 Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions (What is the correlation between the stereochemistry of, and number of electrons involved in, an electrocyclic reaction?)
3 3A Electrocyclic Reactions and Molecular Orbitals, (From the symmetry of the HOMO, how can we predict the type of rotation that occurs in electrocyclic reactions?)
4 3B-C Correlation Diagrams (How can correlation diagrams explain the observed stereochemistry of electrocyclic reactions? And Photochemical Electrocyclic Reactions
5 4A Stereochemistry of Cycloadditions and Cycloreversions
6 5A Benzene and Möbius Benzene (What is the difference between a Hückel aromatic system and a Möbius aromatic system?)
7 5B Aromatic Transition State Theory (How can we use aromatic transition state theory to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions?)
8 6A Stereochemistry of Sigmatropic Rearrangements
9 6B Alkyl Shifts
10 7A The Cope Rearrangement I (What are the symmetry allowed products of the Cope Rearrangement?)
11 7B The Cope Rearrangement II (How can the stereochemistry of the Cope Rearrangement be predicted?)
12 8  Polar Mechanisms
13 9 Isotopic Substitution as a Tool for Determining Mechanisms
14 10A Hammett Plots
15 10B More Hammett Plots
16 11A Review of Lewis Acids, Lewis Bases, Electrophiles, and Nucleophiles
17 11B Hard Soft Acid Base Theory
18 12 Topicity Relationships
19 13 Ring Closures