Lectures
1. Mechanism: How Energies and Kinetic Order Influence Reaction Rates Video lecture 2. Peculiar Rate Laws, Bond Dissociation Energies, and Relative Reactivities Video lecture 3. Rate and Selectivity in Radical-Chain Reactions Video lecture 4. Electronegativity, Bond Strength, Electrostatics, and Non-Bonded Interactions Video lecture 5. Solvation, H-Bonding, and Ionophores Video lecture 6. Brønsted Acidity and the Generality of Nucleophilic Substitution Video lecture 7. Nucleophilic Substitution Tools - Stereochemistry, Rate Law, Substrate, Nucleophile Video lecture 8. Solvent, Leaving Group, Bridgehead Substitution, and Pentavalent Carbon Video lecture 9. Pentavalent Carbon? E2, SN1, E1 Video lecture 10. Cation Intermediates. Alkenes: Formation, Addition, and Stability Video lecture 11. Carbocations and the Mechanism of Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes and Alkynes Video lecture 12. Nucleophilic Participation During Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes Video lecture 13. Addition to Form Three-Membered Rings: Carbenoids and Epoxidation Video lecture 14. Epoxide Opening, Dipolar Cycloaddition, and Ozonolysis Video lecture 15. Metals and Catalysis in Alkene Oxidation, Hydrogenation, Metathesis, and Polymerization Video lecture 16. Isoprenoids, Rubber, and Tuning Polymer Properties Video lecture 17. Alkynes. Conjugation in Allylic Intermediates and Dienes Video lecture 18. Linear and Cyclic Conjugation Theory. 4n+2 Aromaticity Video lecture 19. Aromatic Transition States: Cycloaddition and Electrocyclic Reactions Video lecture 20. Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy Video lecture 21. Functional Groups and Fingerprints in IR Spectroscopy. Precession of Magnetic Nuclei Video lecture 22. Medical MRI and Chemical NMR Video lecture 23. Diamagnetic Anisotropy and Spin-Spin Splitting Video lecture 24. Higher-Order Effects, Dynamics, and the NMR Time Scale Video lecture 25. C-13 and 2D NMR. Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Video lecture 26. Aromatic Substitution in Synthesis: Friedel-Crafts and Moses Gomberg Video lecture 27. Triphenylmethyl and an Introduction to Carbonyl Chemistry Video lecture 28. Mechanism and Equilibrium of Carbonyl Reactions Video lecture 29. Imines and Enamines. Oxidation and Reduction Video lecture 30. Oxidation States and Mechanisms Video lecture 31. Periodate Cleavage, Retrosynthesis, and Green Chemistry Video lecture 32. Measuring Bond Energies: Guest Lecture by Prof. G. Barney Ellison Video lecture 33. Green Chemistry. Acids and Acid Derivatives Video lecture 34. Acids and Acid Derivatives Video lecture 35. Acyl Insertions and [gr]α-Reactivity Video lecture 36. [gr]α-Reactivity and Condensation Reactions Video lecture 37. Proving the Configuration of Glucose and Synthesizing Two Unnatural Products Video lecture 38. Review: Synthesis of Cortisone Video lecture