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Pericyclic Reactions

A Mechanistic and Problem-Solving Approach

  • 1st Edition - August 24, 2015
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Sunil Kumar, Vinod Kumar, S.P. Singh
  • Language: English

Pericyclic Reactions: A Mechanistic and Problem-Solving Approach provides complete and systematic coverage of pericyclic reactions for researchers and graduate students in organi… Read more

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Description

Pericyclic Reactions: A Mechanistic and Problem-Solving Approach provides complete and systematic coverage of pericyclic reactions for researchers and graduate students in organic chemistry and pharmacy programs. Drawing from their cumulative years of teaching in the area, the authors use a clear, problem-solving approach, supplemented with colorful figures and illustrative examples.

Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book covers electrocyclic reactions, sigmatropic reactions, cycloaddition reactions, 1,3-dipolar reactions, group transfer, and ene reactions. It offers an in-depth study of the basic principles of these topics, and devotes equal time to problems and their solutions to further explore those principles and aid reader understanding. Additional practice problems are provided for further study and course use.

Key features

  • Comprehensive coverage of important topics such as 1,3 dipolar, pyrolytic, and cycloaddition reactions
  • Problem-solving approach with clear figures and many worked and unworked problems
  • Contents are applicable to advanced students and researchers in organic chemistry

Readership

Organic Chemistry researchers and students

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Pericyclic Reactions and Molecular Orbital Symmetry
    • 1.1. Classification of Pericyclic Reactions
    • 1.2. Molecular Orbitals of Alkenes and Conjugated Polyene Systems
    • 1.3. Molecular Orbitals of Conjugated Ions or Radicals
    • 1.4. Symmetry Properties of π or σ-Molecular Orbitals
    • 1.5. Analysis of Pericyclic Reactions
  • Chapter 2. Electrocyclic Reactions
    • 2.1. Conrotatory and Disrotatory Modes
    • 2.2. Stereochemistry of Electrocyclic Reactions
    • 2.3. Selection Rules for Electrocyclic Reactions
    • 2.4. Analysis of Electrocyclic Reactions
    • 2.5. Electrocyclic Reactions of Ionic Species
  • Chapter 3. Sigmatropic Rearrangements
    • 3.1. Suprafacial and Antarafacial Processes
    • 3.2. Analysis of Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Hydrogen
    • 3.3. Analysis of Sigmatropic Rearrangements of Alkyl Group
    • 3.4. [3,3] Sigmatropic Rearrangements
    • 3.5. [5,5] Sigmatropic Shift
    • 3.6. [2,3] Sigmatropic Rearrangements
    • 3.7. Peripatetic Cyclopropane Bridge: Walk Rearrangements
    • 3.8. Sigmatropic Rearrangements Involving Ionic Transition States
  • Chapter 4. Cycloaddition Reactions
    • 4.1. Stereochemical Modes of Cycloaddition
    • 4.2. Feasibility of Cycloaddition Reactions
    • 4.3. [2 + 2] Cycloadditions
    • 4.4. [4 + 2] Cycloadditions
    • 4.5. Higher Cycloadditions
    • 4.6. Cycloaddition of Multiple Components
  • Chapter 5. Cheletropic Reactions and 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
    • 5.1. Cheletropic Reactions
    • 5.2. 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions
  • Chapter 6. Group Transfer, Elimination, and Related Reactions
    • 6.1. Group Transfer Reactions
    • 6.2. Elimination Reactions
    • 6.3. Dyotropic Rearrangements
    • 6.4. Ene Reactions
    • 6.5. β-Eliminations Involving Cyclic Transition Structures
  • Chapter 7. Unsolved Problems
  • Appendix. Solution Manual
  • Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 24, 2015
  • Language: English

About the authors

SK

Sunil Kumar

Dr. Sunil Kumar is a well-rounded researcher with more than 20 years of experience in leading, supervising and undertaking research in the broader field of Environmental Engineering and Science with focus on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. He has contributed extensively to these fields and has h-index of 30 and i10-index of 43 (Google scholar); highly impressive for a non-academic researcher from India. His contributions since inception at CSIR-NEERI in 200 include 130 refereed journal publications, 04 books and 25 book chapters, 08 Edited volumes and numerous project reports to various governmental and private, local and International academic /research bodies. The list of his collaborations is long and includes key Indian universities, such as IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai and prestigious regional institutes, such as Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Hong Baptist University as well as universities in US (Columbia, Texas A&M) and Europe (UN University and University of Uppsala).
Affiliations and expertise
CSIR–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India

VK

Vinod Kumar

Vinod Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at M.M.University, Mullana, Ambala, India. He qualified on the NET Examination (a highly competitive test for lectureship in India) in 2001, and obtained a PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Professors S.P. Singh and Ranjana Aggarwal. He received the Young Scientist Award of Indian Science Congress Association from the President of India for his outstanding contribution in the field of chemical sciences in 2007, and he was invited to visit Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), South Korea, as a Foreign Expert in 2012. His research interests focus on the structural reinvestigation, green chemistry, and synthesis of heterocyclic compounds, mainly azoles. He has published many research papers and review articles in professional journals and has filed four patents. He has served as an editor, guest editor, and reviewer for many national and international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
M.M.University, Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, India

SS

S.P. Singh

S.P. Singh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India. He obtained a PhD in 1964 from University of Lucknow and joined Kurukshetra University in 1965. Singh was also associated with the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Senior Fulbright Scholar, and Visiting Research Professor. Singh has worked in diverse areas of organic chemistry, including reaction mechanisms, organic photochemistry, mass spectrometry, and primarily, the structural reinvestigation of heterocyclylpyrazoles. He has published more than 200 research papers and reviews in professional journals. For his services in chemistry, he has received the Acharya P. C. Ray Memorial Medal and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Chemical Society. He was awarded New Millennium Plaque of Honour at the inaugural function of the Indian Science Congress in 2014.
Affiliations and expertise
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

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