Kinetics and Mechanism of Organic Reactions

4 credits

Methodology of mechanistic organic chemistry; integration of rate expression, determination of rate constants, transition state theory; catalysis, kinetic orders, isotope effects, solvent effects, linear free energy relationship; product studies, stereochemistry; reactive intermediates; rapid reactions. May be coscheduled with CHEM 246. Prerequisites: CHEM 40C, 40CH, or 41C.