Organic Mechanisms

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Prerequisites: Chem 26100 and Chem 26300. This course will cover the concepts in organic chemistry, necessary to understand organic reaction mechanisms. Although some material may be adapted from undergraduate organic chemistry, this is largely a review. Substantial additions to these basic concepts will be introduced. Tentative topics for this course include: bonding in carbon compounds; stereochemistry and isomerism; conformation, steric effects and stereoelectronic properties; reaction rates, linear free energy relationships and isotope effects; substitution, addition, and elimination reactions; carbanions and other nucleophiles; chemistry of the carbonyl group; aromaticity and reactions of aromatic compounds; pericyclic reactions; chemistry of free radicals and carbenes.