Week1: General introduction to the course, activation of chemical reactions. thermal and photochemical methods, molecular orbitals of conjugated polyenes and their symmetry properties, definition and classification of pericyclic reactions methods of analyzing pericyclic reactions.
Week 2: Electrocyclic reactions – introduction, definition and classification, Woodward- Hoffmann rules for electrocyclic reactions, Stereochemical aspects and modes of electrocyclic reactions, analysis of electrocyclic reactions by various methods, examples of electrocyclic reactions.
Week 3: Electrocyclic (continued), Cycloaddition reactions, Woodward- Hoffmann rules for cycloaddition reactions, stereochemical aspects and modes of cycloaddition reactions, analysis of cycloaddition reactions by various methods
Week 4: Examples of thermal and photochemical [2p+2p] cycloaddition reactions Synthesis of cage type compounds using [2p+2p] cycloaddition reactions Diels-Alder reaction and its variants and their syntic utility
Week 5: 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition reactions, higher order cycloaddition reactions, sigmatropic rearrangements, Woodward Hoffmann rules for sigmatropic rearrangements
Week 6: Sigmatropic rearrangements – examples, Claisen and Cope rearrangements [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements and higher order rearrangements Chelotropic reactions - introduction, definition and classification, Ene reaction.
Week 7: Organic photochemistry – introduction, definitions, importance Electronic excitation and spin configurations – Jabolanski diagram Energy transfer and electron transfer processes – quenching of excited states Photochemistry of carbonyl compounds
Week 8: Photochemistry of olefins, enones and dienones, photochemistry of aromatic molecules, molecular oxygen and organic photochemistry, supramolecular organic photochemistry.
DOWNLOAD APP
FOLLOW US