Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part One)

Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part Two)

Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part Four)

After revisiting the Diels-Alder reaction, we are ready to learn about some other cycloadditions with great synthetic utility. This will include 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, which are very neat. Don't take my word for it, check this out!

An introduction to the diels-alder reaction.

Wanna make an amide out of a ketone? Try the Schmidt reaction! It's got azides, it's got really neat concerted rearrangements, it's got diazoiminium intermediates, it has it all! Let's check out the mechanism, implications, and...

Rings upon rings! Forwards and backwards! Give these a shot.

An important class of reactions is the pericyclic reactions. We've been introduced to one subclass of these, cycloaddition reactions, when we looked at the Diels-Alder reaction. For the next few tutorials we will learn about some other...

Just one more on pericyclic reactions! We have to cover electrocyclizations. This way we can talk about neat stuff with frontier molecular orbitals, like conrotatory vs. disrotatory overlap, as well as the important Nazarov cyclization....