{"id":22,"date":"2007-08-10T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/about\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:55:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a title=\"Alan's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alan Shusterman<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><strong><a title=\"Alan's schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/weekly-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekly schedule<\/a> shows S&#8217;21 (online) OFFICE HOURS,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:alan@reed.edu\">alan@reed.edu<\/a><\/strong>, 503-517-7699<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/c1i5jvyw4lznveg\/324.21%20Day%200%20syllabus.pdf?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Syllabus 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">time and location &#8211; MWF 10:05-10:55 AM, see syllabus for zoom meeting<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">text &#8211; none, just handouts and web posts<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">attendance &#8211; required<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Description<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Chemistry 324 is a half-unit course in advanced organic chemistry. Chemistry 201 and 202 (or instructor&#8217;s consent) are prerequisites, which means 324 is normally taken by Reed College juniors and seniors majoring in chemistry. Chem 333 (quantum mechanics) provides background that is helpful in places, but it is not required.<\/p>\n<p>The course emphasizes the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description of <em>pericyclic<\/em>* reactions from a physical (mechanistic) organic chemistry perspective<\/li>\n<li>Application of the most widely used <strong>theories of chemical reactivity<\/strong> (Woodward-Hoffmann, Fukui FMO, Dewar-Zimmerman) that chemists rely on for the description of <em>pericyclic <\/em>reactions*<\/li>\n<li>Using <strong>molecular modeling<\/strong> to study critical species in chemical reactions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">*A <strong><em>pericyclic<\/em><\/strong> reaction is a concerted\u00a0 reaction in which the transition state contains a cyclic array of forming and breaking bonds. Some of the pericyclic reactions covered in this class include <strong>electro(de)cyclizations<\/strong>, <strong>cycloadditions <\/strong>(e.g., Diels-Alder, 3+2, &#8220;click&#8221;, photochemical 2+2), and <strong>sigmatropic migrations <\/strong>(e.g., H migrations) and <strong>rearrangements <\/strong>(e.g., Claisen, Ireland-Claisen, Cope, oxy-Cope, anion oxy-Cope).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above, we will also set aside time for reading and discussing the <strong>research literature,<\/strong> particularly intersections of chemical structure, reactivity\/selectivity, and molecular modeling.<\/p>\n<p>Chemistry 324 differs from Chemistry 345 (Adv. Synthetic Organic Chemistry) in that chemical reactions are studied from the physical side, rather than the synthetic. Instead of learning lists of reagents and experimental conditions, our focus is on thermodynamics, kinetics, isotope effects, reactivity models, and so on.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Assignments<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>See appropriate web page (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/homework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Homework<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Papers<\/strong><\/a>) for details. The number of assignments varies from year-to-year, so take the following parameters as rough indicators of workload and type of work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6-12 homework sets<\/li>\n<li>2-6 journal articles to read at home and discuss in class (written work may also be attached to these articles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Shusterman weekly schedule shows S&#8217;21 (online) OFFICE HOURS,\u00a0alan@reed.edu, 503-517-7699 Syllabus 2021 time and location &#8211; MWF 10:05-10:55 AM, see syllabus for zoom meeting text &#8211; none, just handouts and web posts attendance &#8211; required Description Chemistry 324 is a half-unit course in advanced organic chemistry. Chemistry 201 and 202 (or instructor&#8217;s consent) are prerequisites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem324\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}