Pericyclic Reactions, Radicals & Synthesis
A 20-module path through pericyclic reactions, radicals & synthesis, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- What Are Pericyclic Reactions?
- The Three Classes of Pericyclic Reactions
- Frontier Molecular Orbitals and Reaction Symmetry
- Thermal vs Photochemical Control of Pericyclic Reactions
- The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules and Orbital Symmetry
- Electrocyclic Reactions: Ring Opening and Closing
- Conrotatory vs Disrotatory Ring Closure
- Torquoselectivity in Electrocyclic Reactions
- Cycloadditions: The General Picture
- The Diels-Alder Reaction Revisited
- Regiochemistry and Endo Selectivity in the Diels-Alder
- 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
- Sigmatropic Rearrangements: Order and Nomenclature
- Suprafacial and Antarafacial Sigmatropic Shifts
- The Cope and Claisen Rearrangements
- Radical Chain Reactions: Initiation, Propagation, Termination
- Radical Polymerization
- Carbenes and Carbenoids: Structure and Reactivity
- Transition-Metal Cross-Coupling: An Introduction
- Retrosynthetic Analysis: Disconnections and Synthons