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Advanced Organic Chemistry I

CHEM 5321/6321

Spring 2025

Text:  Advanced Organic Chemistry, Reactions and Mechanisms, 2nd Ed. Bernard Miller, ISBN 0-13-065588-0

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I cannot guarantee video or audio for every lecture so please come to class!

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 January 21-Waves 23
2 28 30-Chapter 2-Electrocyclic
3 February 4 6
4 11-Chapter 3-Cycloaddtion 13
5 18 20-Chapter 4-Sigmatropic
6 25 27
7 March 4-Review 6-Midterm
8 11-Holiday 13-Holiday
9 18-Chapter 5-Linear Free-Energry 20
10 25 27-Chapter 6-Cationic Rearrangments
11 April 1 3
12 8-Chapter 7-Neighboring Group Effects 10
13 15-Chapter 8-Carbanion and Radical Rearrangements 17
14 22-Chapter 9-Carbenes 24
15 29-Chapter 10-Photochemistry May 1
16 6 8-Review
17 13 15-Final Exam
7:00 to 9:45 am

Your grade for this course will consist of:

  1. 1/4 Class-Response
  2. 1/4 Homework
  3. 1/4 A Midterm Exam
  4. 1/4 A Final Exam

Exercises Due Dates

(All lessons and syntheses due on the midnight of the date given).

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Title

Video "Rosetta Stone"
Suggested Reading
Pages (Sections)
Due Date
1 Reactions of Conjugated Pi-Systems   Chapter 1  
2 Electrocyclic Reactions x Chapter 2  
3 Cycloadditions-Diels Alder x Chapter 3  
4 Cycloadditions-Advanced   Chapter 3  
5 Sigmatropic Rearrangments-Advanced   Chapter 4  
6 Electrocyclic Reactions-Advanced   Chapter 2  
7 Cationic Rearrangements-Advanced   Chapter 6  
8 Anchimeric Rerrangements-Advanced (only 9 questions)   Chapter 7  
9 Carbanion and Radical Rearrangments-Advanced   Chapter 8  
10 Carbene Reactions-Advanced   Chapter 9  
11 Photochemistry-Advanced   Chapter 10  

 

 

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