Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Overlaps with: CML696
Description
Basic MO theory, Frontier Orbits and orbital mixing; Reactive intermediates; Relationship between potential energy and the perturbation to a chemical bond: Potential Energy Surfaces and the Reaction Coordinate; Simple rate laws (unimolecular and bimolecular); Arrhenius equation and Eyring equation, Transition State theory. Kinetics vs Thermodynamics 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).