Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry Online Course
NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate/ postgraduate students in Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry.
About the course:
Course Layout:
Duration: 08 weeks
Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cy26/preview
- The course can be broadly classified as a Physical Organic Chemistry course.
- Understanding organic reaction mechanisms are extremely useful in predicting the products and improving the reaction efficiency.
- A student needs to know basic concepts in order to be able to write reasonable reaction mechanisms.
- A mechanism cannot be considered valid unless there is experimental evidence to support it.
- The student needs to know basic experiments that can be used to validate reaction mechanisms.
- Learning outcomes for the course: At the end of the course, the student should be able to
- Propose/write a mechanism for a given organic reaction. • Design experiments to determine reaction intermediates/mechanisms.
Course Layout:
- Week 1: Broad classification of reactions and basics of arrow pushing
- Week 2: Reaction co-ordinate diagrams
- Week 3: Reaction Kinetics: rate laws and methods of determining concentration. Introduction to linear free energy relationships
- Week 4: Linear Free Energy Relationships
- Week 5: Kinetic and equilibrium isotope Effects
- Week 6: Miscellaneous methods to determine mechanisms: isotope labelling, trapping of intermediates, checking for common intermediate, competition and cross-over experiments.
- Week 7: Catalysis: classification and introduction to Bronstead acid catalysis
- Week 8: Types of Catalysis: Acid, Binding, Electrophilic, Nucelophilic, Covalent, Proximity and Phase-transfer
Duration: 08 weeks
Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020
For more details, please visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_cy26/preview
