Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Overlaps with: CML743
Description
Introduction to Molecular Orbital theory, frontier Orbitals and orbital mixing; Details of Reactive intermediates; Correlation between the perturbations to a chemical bond and potential energy; Simple rate laws; Arrhenius equation and Eyring equation, Transition State theory. Kinetics vs Thermodynamic control; Experimental investigation of reaction mechanisms and short lived intermediates; The kinetic Isotope Effect; Reaction trajectories: Cross-over experiments; Characterisation of short lived intermediates; Examples of reactive species and their behavior Supramolecular chemistry. Electron transfer reactions. Organic photochemical transformation (including catalysis).