140 pages, 2 Chapters, 20 Activities
Pericyclic Reactions
Activity 1: Introduction to Qualitative Molecular Orbital Theory
Activity 2: Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions
Activity 3A: Electrocyclic Reactions and Molecular Orbitals
Activity 3B: Correlation Diagrams
Activity 4A: Stereochemistry of Cycloadditions and Cycloreversions
Activity 4B: Diels-Alder Reactions
Activity 5A: Benzene and Möbius Benzene
Activity 5B: Aromatic Transition State Theory
Activity 6A: Sigmatropic Rearrangements
Activity 6B: Alkyl Shifts
Activity 7A: The Cope Rearrangement I
Activity 7B: The Cope Rearrangement II
Polar Reactions
Activity 8: Polar Mechanisms
Activity 9: Isotopic Substitution
Activity 10A: Hammett Plots
Activity 10B: More Hammett Plots
Activity 11A: Review: Lewis Acids/Bases, Electrophiles, & Nucleophiles
Activity 11B: Hard Soft Acid Base Theory
Activity 12: Topicity Relationships
Activity 13: Polar Ring Closures