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Required Text: (Texts should be ordered on-line from Amazon.com) Adv Organic Chem, Part A, Carey & Sundberg, 4th ed., Plenum Recommended Text: Writing Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, by Audrey Miller and P. H. Solomon, Supplemental Texts:
Computational Chemistry, (Oxford Chemistry Primers, 29), Grant and Richards
Perspectives on Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, Carrol
Stereoelectronic Effects (Oxford Chemistry Primers, 36), Kirby a cheap and effective primer
Mechanism and Theory in Organic Chemistry, Lowry & Richardsonrather difficult and pricey
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, recommended for its comprehensiveness and price
Pushing
Electrons: A Guide for Students of Organic Chemistry, Daniel Weeks
introductory
level
On reserve in Library (dated but still useful texts):
Electronic interpretation of organic chemistry, Menger A guidebook
to mechanism in organic chemistry, Peter Sykes Physical and mechanistic
organic chemistry, Jones Weeks 1,4: Physical Properties and Theoretical
Methods,
Aromaticity
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ethene
formaldehyde
propene
Week 5: Stereochemical Principles, Configurations and
Conformations, examples Week 6-7: Exam 1, Reaction
Mechanisms, answers to exam 1
notes
ch4
example from article exp
1, 2 ,
3 Weeks 8,9: Nucleophilic Substitution, Nonclassical
Carbocations, Aromatic Substitutions
notes
ch5-7 Week 10: Addition and Elimination Reactions; Carbonyl Compounds
Weeks 11: Exam 2,Example
of Last year's Exam 2 , Concerted Reactions Week 12: Free-radical
and photochemical reactions Week 13: Final
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