Basic Information
The Offered Course Is a Bridge Between The Quantum World and Realm Of Organic Chemistry. in The Course, Students Will Learn How Quantum-chemical Concepts Relate to The Properties and Reactivity Of Organic Molecules. Students Will Learn How Molecular Orbitals Dictate The Functionality of Molecules and The Selectivity of Organic Reactions, and How This Selectivity Affects Synthetic Outcomes. We Will Discuss Classic Concepts Such As The Anomeric Effect, Hyperconjugation, and The Woodward-hoffmann Selection Rules, Which Are a Cornerstone of Physical-organic Chemistry and Play an Important Role in Modern Chemistry, to This Day. The Course Material Enables The Students to Develop an Intuition and a Toolset For Analyzing Organic Reactions. Learning Outcomes# Students Will Encouter The Term "molecular Orbital" and Learn How Orbitals Dicatet Reactivity and Properties. The Course Material Gives Students Intuition and a Toolset With Which to Analyse Organic Reactions. During The Course, Students Will Use Various Model Systems, From Which Conclusions Can Be Generalized. These Reactions Enable Prediction of Reaction Selectivity. They Will See Several Classic And Important Chemical Reactions and Obtain a Deeper Understanding Of Them. At The End of The Course, Students Will Know How to Analyze Reactions From a Molecular Orbital Perspective. They Will Have Developed A Sense For Reaction Selectivity and The Relationship Between Structure And Activity. They Will Learn to Construct And/or Choose Appropriate Model Systems. They Will Be Able to Understand Modern Chemical Literature, in Which Computational Chemistry and Orbital Analysis Are Becoming Increasingly Important.
Faculty: Chemistry
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Pre-required courses
(124400 - Quantum Chemistry 1 and 124708 - Organic Chemistry 1/ Extended) or (124408 - Intr.to Quantum Chemi.and Applications and 124708 - Organic Chemistry 1/ Extended)
Course with no extra credit
127710 - Molecular Orbitals in Organic Chemistry