2. Radical reactions |
2.1. Homolytic vs. heterolytic bond breaking.
2.2. Radical stability.
2.3. Chain reactions, alkane halogenation.
2.4. Radical polymerizations.
2.5. Radical reductions and reductive couplings.
2.6. Radical reactions in nature. |
4. Photochemical reactions |
4.1. UV/vis spectra of organic molecules. Properties of excited states.
4.2. Photophysical processes: unimolecular deactivation, internal conversion, intersystem crossing, emission (fluorescence, phosphorescence).
4.3. Double bond isomerizations.
4.4. Photodissociations.
4.5. Photoreductions.
4.6. Pericyclic reactions.
4.7. Photochemical reactions in nature. |
6. Molecular modeling |
Use of computational chemistry tools to study the properties of organic molecules and reaction mechanisms associated to the previous sections of the course. |