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CHEM6394: Stereochemistry

CHEM 6394 is a graduate-level stereochemistry course, and it follows a related mechanistic course, CHEM 6311. The course will cover the concepts of planar, axial, and topological chirality, methods for studying stereochemical phenomena, and some of the principles of dynamic stereochemistry. Throughout the course, the instructor will strive to provide a balanced analysis of organic and inorganic stereochemistry.

Lecture Notes

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Lectures

Readings

Chirality in Rotaxanes and Catenanes (Goldup)

Total Synthesis Reveals Atypical Atropisomerism in a Small-molecule Natural Product, Tryptorubin A (Clardy & Baran)

A New Fundamental Type of Conformational Isomerism (Reimers & Crossley)

Pyramidal Inversion (Mislow)

Can a Molecule Be a Little Chiral? (Francl)

Experimental Demonstration of the Allene Asymmetry (Maitland & Mills)

Bowl Chirality: Chiral Buckybowl Molecules (Yang)

Tetra-tert-butylethylene: Fantasy, Fake, or Reality? (Liebman)

Octahedral Werner Complexes with Substituted Ethylenediamine Ligands  (Gladysz)

Conformational Analysis of Cycloalkanes  (Dragojlovic)

An Asymmetric Catalyst (Fujii)

Asymmetric Autocatalysis and Amplification of Enantiomeric Excess of a Chiral Molecule (Soai)

How Important Is Parity Violation for Molecular and Biomolecular Chirality? (Quack)

Self-Assembly, Adaptive Response, and in,out-Stereoisomerism of Large Orthoformate Cryptands? (von Delius)

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