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Molecular Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions
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Preface

1. Molecular Orbital Theory

1.1 The Atomic Orbitals of a Hydrogen Atom

1.2 Molecules Made from Hydrogen Atoms

1.3 C—H and C—C Bonds

1.4 Conjugation—Hückel Theory

1.5 Aromaticity

1.6 Strained s Bonds—Cyclopropanes and Cyclobutanes

1.7 Heteronuclear Bonds, C—M, C—X and C=O

1.8 The Tau Bond Model

1.9 Spectroscopic Methods

2. Molecular Orbitals and the Structures of Organic Molecules

2.1 The Effects of p-Conjugation

2.2 Hyperconjugation—p-Conjugation

2.3 The Configurations and Conformations of Molecules

2.4 The Effect of Conjugation on Electron Distribution

2.5 Other Non-covalent Interactions

3 Chemical Reactions—How Far and How Fast

3.1 Factors Affecting the Position of an Equilibrium

3.2 The Principle of Hard and Soft Acids and Bases (HSAB)

3.3 Transition Structures

3.4 The Perturbation Theory of Reactivity

3.5 The Salem-Klopman Equation

3.6 Hard and Soft Nucleophiles and Electrophiles

3.7 Other Factors Affecting Chemical Reactivity

4 Ionic Reactions—Reactivity

4.1 Single Electron Transfer (SET) in Ionic Reactions

4.2 Nucleophilicity

4.3 Ambident Nucleophiles

4.4 Electrophilicity

4.5 Ambident Electrophiles

4.6 Carbenes

5 Ionic Reactions—Stereochemistry

5.1 The Stereochemistry of the Fundamental Organic Reactions

5.2 Diastereoselectivity

6 Pericyclic Reactions

6.1 The Four Classes of Pericyclic Reactions

6.2 Evidence for the Concertedness of Bond Making and Breaking

6.3 Symmetry-allowed and Symmetry-forbidden Reactions

6.4 Explanations for the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules

6.5 Secondary Effects

7 Radical Reactions

7.1 Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Radicals

7.2 The Abstraction of Hydrogen and Halogen Atoms

7.3 The Addition of Radicals to p-Bonds

7.4 Synthetic Applications of the Chemoselectivity of Radicals

7.5 Stereochemistry in some Radical Reactions

7.6 Ambident Radicals

7.7 Radical Coupling

8 Photochemical Reactions

8.1 Photochemical Reactions in General

8.2 Photochemical Ionic Reactions

8.3 Photochemical Pericyclic Reactions and Related Stepwise Reactions

8.4 Photochemically-Induced Radical Reactions

8.5 Chemiluminescence

References

Index

About the Author

Professor Ian Fleming, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Ian Fleming is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College. He is the author of five textbooks: Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry (McGraw Hill, now in its 6th edition), Spectroscopic Problems in Organic Chemistry (McGraw Hill); Selected Organic Syntheses (Wiley), Frontier Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions (Wiley)  and Pericyclic Reactions (OUP Oxford Chemistry Primer series).

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