Flexnow course number 53122
How to find out about which mechanisms are in operation?
An introduction to the tool box of modern phyical organic chemistry and relevant research examples.
Timeline
In the first part of the semester we will reacp some fundamental concepts used in describing reactivity-selectivity correlations, typical physical-organic experiments and theoretical, i.e. computational approaches. In the second part we will focus on examples of catalyzed tranformations and discuss the associated mechanistic studies partially in an inverted class room setting.
Objectives of this course:
Understanding about physical-(in)-organic concepts, their usefulness, AND limitations.
Learningn about typical combinations of different spectroscopic techniques (time-resolved and static), and computational chemistry.
In the end having a good idea about how to design a set of experiments (lab and computiations) to understand how a transformations works at a molecular level