
Pericyclic Chemistry
Orbital Mechanisms and Stereochemistry
Description
Key Features
- Comprehensive guide featuring unifying mechanistic approaches, stereochemical details and novel rules and mnemonics to delineate product stereochemistry
- Includes two background chapters on molecular orbitals and stereochemical concepts
- Emphasizes a theoretical understanding using perturbation theory (Salem-Klopman equation) and physical insights from orbital and state correlation analyses
Readership
Graduate and advanced undergraduate students of organic chemistry, researchers in organic chemistry
Table of Contents
1. Molecular Orbitals
2. Stereochemical concepts
3. Pericyclic reactions: Introduction, classification and the Woodward-Hoffmann rules
4. Cycloadditions 1: Perturbation theory of reactivity, regioselectivity and periselectivity
5. Cycloadditions 2: Stereochemistry of [4+2] and [2+2] cycloadditions
6. Cycloadditions 3: Cheletropic, higher order and multicomponent cycloadditions
7. Electrocyclic reactions: Stereochemistry and torquoselectivity
8. Sigmatropic rearrangements 1: [1,j] Shifts
9. Sigmatropic rearrangements 2: [i,j] Shifts
10. Group transfer reactions
11. Correlation diagrams
Product details
- No. of pages: 532
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2018
- Published: March 26, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128149584
- eBook ISBN: 9780128149591