Pericyclic Chemistry. Orbital Mechanisms and Stereochemistry

Table of Contents

1. Molecular Orbitals 2. Stereochemical concepts 3. Pericyclic reactions: Introduction, classification and the Woodward-Hoffmann rules 4. Cycloadditions 1: Perturbation theory of reactivity, regioselectivity and periselectivity 5. Cycloadditions 2: Stereochemistry of [4+2] and [2+2] cycloadditions 6. Cycloadditions 3: Cheletropic, higher order and multicomponent cycloadditions 7. Electrocyclic reactions: Stereochemistry and torquoselectivity 8. Sigmatropic rearrangements 1: [1,j] Shifts 9. Sigmatropic rearrangements 2: [i,j] Shifts 10. Group transfer reactions 11. Correlation diagrams

Authors

Dipak Kumar Mandal Formerly of Presidency College/University, Kolkata, India. Dipak K. Mandal is former professor of chemistry at Presidency College (University), Kolkata, India. He studied chemistry at Presidency College and Calcutta University, and is a recipient of university gold medal and Bhubana Mohini gold medal. He completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor N. K. Sinha at Bose Institute, Kolkata and carried out postdoctoral work in the USA from 1990-1993 with Professor C. Fred Brewer at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. He has been passionately involved in teaching undergraduate and graduate level organic chemistry for about 35 years, and his keen interest in chemical education resulted in three publications in the Journal of Chemical Education. His research interests include protein folding, structure and dynamics, and peptide synthesis. He was actively engaged in guiding research and has published many research papers in peer-reviewed international journals.