Course overview
- Course codeFKBT001
- ECTS credits15
- DepartmentCHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
- Graduate schoolChemistry
- PeriodicityLate autumn 2022, then every third year
- LanguageEnglish
- ApplicationContact the course coordinator
Course coordinator
- Jerker Mårtensson
- Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
About the course
Course content:
- Molecular structure: topologies, stereochemistry, strain and stability.
- Molecular electronic structure: models of bonding, orbital theories and stereoelectronic effects.
- Acid-base chemistry.
- Kinetic analyses and molecular thermodynamics: energy surfaces, reactive intermediates, transition states and free energy relationships.
- Experimental methods in mechanistic analysis.
- Reaction mechanisms: polar reactions, radical, reactions and pericyclic reactions.
- Other topics out of interest of attending students.
More information
Jerker Mårtensson, jerker@chalmers.se
Literature
Eric V. Anslyn and Dennis A. Dougherty, Modern Physical Organic Chemistry, University Science Books, 2005.
Lecturer
Jerker Mårtensson