CHEM 4800 - Advanced Organic Chemistry

• Students will become proficient with basic transition state theory, the Arrhenius, Eyring equations and the Hammond postulate.
• Students will acquire an understanding of nucleophilic and electrophilic substitutions, elimination and addition reactions, cycloadditions and rearrangements and be able to apply these mechanisms in organic chemistry.
• Students will be able to analyze first and second order reactions and describe the kinetics of more complex mechanisms using the steady state approximation.
• Students will be able to describe and identify non-covalent binding forces between molecules.
• Students will be able to discriminate between various reaction mechanisms based on the nature of the reagents.
• Students will be proficient with molecular orbital theory of bonding, non-bonding and anti-bonding orbitals.
• Students will be proficient with thermodynamics applied to organic molecules.
• Students will understand fundamental differences between thermodynamics and kinetics of organic reactions.