Tag Archives: MO

Learn about the last EDG on your own

Posted on November 3, 2010 by alan

I have posted all of the slides from today's lecture (see Syllabus or here). I did not finish my description of electron-donating groups (EDG), but I had saved the easiest material for last so I would like you to look… Continue reading →

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SN2 kinetics and geometry

Posted on November 9, 2009 by alan

First, if you would like to see the MO pictures that I used in class today, check out last year’s post on back side attack & HOMO-LUMO overlap (Oct 13, 2008).There are also a couple of points that I want… Continue reading →

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Lecture slides – Wed Sept 8 (more MOs)

Posted on September 9, 2009 by alan

Slides for today's lecture are located here.Several of you came back with excellent questions after lecture today and I want to share some of this material with the rest of the class…. Continue reading →

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Lecture slides – Fri Sept 4

Posted on September 4, 2009 by alan

Except for the computer troubles, I thought today's lecture went surprisingly well. Too bad that we didn't get through the entire set of slides, but I'll show them to you on Monday. Here is a copy of the slides from… Continue reading →

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