Reading Assignment for week Olefin Addition Reactions: Part–3 Chemistry 206 Advanced Organic Chemistry

Hoffmann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1979, 18, 563-572 (Stereochemistry of) Nakai, Chem. Rev. 1986, 86, 885-902 (Wittig Rearrangement) Evans, Accts. Chem. Res. 1974, 7, 147-55 (Sulfoxide Rearrangement)

Reading Assignment for week: Carey & Sundberg: Part A; Chapter 11 Concerted Pericyclic Reactions Pericyclic Reactions: Part–2 Chemistry 206 Advanced Organic Chemistry

Woodward-Hoffmann Theory R. B. Woodward and R. Hoffmann, The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry, Verlag Chemie, Weinheim, 1970. Frontier Molecular Orbital Theory I. Fleming, Frontier Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions

Advanced Organic Chemistry Handout–10A Diastereoselective Attack of Electrophiles on Chiral Olefins Matthew D. Shair Wednesday

Carey & Sundberg: Part A; Chapter 7 Carbanions & Other Nucleophilic Carbon Species

1. Type II Diels-Alder II. Radical Reactions A. 5-Exo- and 6-Endo- Ring Formations

\...every synthetic chemist is well advised to follow this fascinating field with appropriate attention.\

Carbenes are Accessible via Sigmatropic Rearrangement

I Classification of Rearrangement Reactions() II Nucleophilic rearrangement() 1 Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement( 2 Pinacolic Rearrangement 3 a-ethandione Rearrangement 4 Beckmann Rearrangement 5 Baeyer-Villiger Rearrangement