Aims

To widen the knowledge in organic chemistry. Appreciation of organic intermediatesreactivity. Development of knowledge in organic chemistry synthesis. Initiation to organometallic reactants.

Main themes

Intermediates reactivity. Study and determination of reaction mechanisms. Nucleophilic substitution. Mechanisms. Nucleophiles and electrophiles, Pearson's theory. Ion pairs. Stereochemical aspects and neighbouring groups participation. Super acid solutions. Reactivity of carbocations, carbanions, radicals, anion and cation radicals, carbenes. Non classical carbocations. Cationic and radical polycyclisations. Metal carbenoïd. Birch-type reactions. Hammond and Curtin-Hammett postulates. Primary isotopic effect. Synthetic applications of these diverse notions. Pericyclic reactions. Diels-Alder cycloadditions. Sigmatropic rearrangements.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites:
Evaluation: written and oral examination.
Support: cfr. old document F.A. Carey...
Supervision: 2 academics and assistants.

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