CHEM 125B - Freshman Organic Chemistry II
Lecture 13 - Addition to Form Three-Membered Rings: Carbenoids and Epoxidation . After drill on the mechanism of the pinacol rearrangement, this lecture applies molecular-orbital analysis to simultaneous electrophilic/nucleophilic
attack by a single atom to form a three-membered ring from an alkene. These reactions provide drill in consistent use of the curved-arrow formalism for describing electron-pair shifts. Two alternative mechanisms for formation of cyclopropanes
by the alkylzinc Simmons-Smith "carbenoid" reagent are proposed, and the one-step mechanism is supported by theory. Epoxidation of alkenes by peroxycarboxylic acids also seems to go by way of a concerted electrophilic/nucleophilic process
involving a single transition state. The stereochemistry and scale of various paths to epoxides is discussed in the context of their commercial utility.
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Lecture 13 - Addition to Form Three-Membered Rings: Carbenoids and Epoxidation
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Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. The Pinacol Rearrangement Mechanism
[00:04:36]
2. Carbenoids and Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation
[00:17:56]
3. Epoxidation by Peroxycarboxylic Acids
[00:38:40]
4. Other Routes to Epoxides
[00:46:44]
5. Practical Utility of Epoxides
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Lecture 01 - Mechanism: How Energies and Kinetic Order Influence Reaction Rates
Lecture 02 - Peculiar Rate Laws, Bond Dissociation Energies, and Relative Reactivities
Lecture 03 - Rate and Selectivity in Radical-Chain Reactions
Lecture 04 - Electronegativity, Bond Strength, Electrostatics, and Non-Bonded Interactions
Lecture 05 - Solvation, H-Bonding, and Ionophores
Lecture 06 - Bronsted Acidity and the Generality of Nucleophilic Substitution
Lecture 07 - Nucleophilic Substitution Tools - Stereochemistry, Rate Law, Substrate, Nucleophile, Leaving Group
Lecture 08 - Solvent, Leaving Group, Bridgehead Substitution, and Pentavalent Carbon
Lecture 09 - Pentavalent Carbon? E2, SN1, E1
Lecture 10 - Cation Intermediates - Alkenes: Formation, Addition, and Stability
Lecture 11 - Carbocations and the Mechanism of Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes and Alkynes
Lecture 12 - Nucleophilic Participation During Electrophilic Addition to Alkenes
Lecture 13 - Addition to Form Three-Membered Rings: Carbenoids and Epoxidation
Lecture 14 - Epoxide Opening, Dipolar Cycloaddition, and Ozonolysis
Lecture 15 - Metals and Catalysis in Alkene Oxidation, Hydrogenation, Metathesis, and Polymerization
Lecture 16 - Isoprenoids, Rubber, and Tuning Polymer Properties
Lecture 17 - Alkynes; Conjugation in Allylic Intermediates and Dienes
Lecture 18 - Linear and Cyclic Conjugation Theory; 4n+2 Aromaticity
Lecture 19 - Aromatic Transition States: Cycloaddition and Electrocyclic Reactions
Lecture 20 - Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopy
Lecture 21 - Functional Groups and Fingerprints in IR Spectroscopy; Precession of Magnetic Nuclei
Lecture 22 - Medical MRI and Chemical NMR
Lecture 23 - Diamagnetic Anisotropy and Spin-Spin Splitting
Lecture 24 - Higher-Order Effects, Dynamics, and the NMR Time Scale
Lecture 25 - C-13 and 2D NMR - Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution
Lecture 26 - Aromatic Substitution in Synthesis: Friedel-Crafts and Moses Gomberg
Lecture 27 - Triphenylmethyl and an Introduction to Carbonyl Chemistry
Lecture 28 - Mechanism and Equilibrium of Carbonyl Reactions
Lecture 29 - Imines and Enamines; Oxidation and Reduction
Lecture 30 - Oxidation States and Mechanisms
Lecture 31 - Periodate Cleavage, Retrosynthesis, and Green Chemistry
Lecture 32 - Measuring Bond Energies: Guest Lecture by Prof. G. Barney Ellison
Lecture 33 - Green Chemistry; Acids and Acid Derivatives
Lecture 34 - Acids and Acid Derivatives
Lecture 35 - Acyl Insertions and alpha-Reactivity
Lecture 36 - alpha-Reactivity and Condensation Reactions
Lecture 37 - Proving the Configuration of Glucose and Synthesizing Two Unnatural Products
Lecture 38 - Review: Synthesis of Cortisone