CHEMISTRY
Lecture1: Physical organic chemistry
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, PHYSICAL ORGANIC
CHEMISTRY
• Structure and Bonding
• Factors affecting Reactivity
• Reaction Mechanisms
• Isomerism
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, Recommended Textbooks
• Organic Chemistry by Solomons/Fryhle
• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry by J
McMurry
• Primer to Mechanism in Organic
Chemistry by P Sykes
• Virtually any organic chemistry textbook
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, 1. Structure and Bonding
• Ionic bonds
• Covalent bonds
• Orbital theory of covalent bonding
• Delocalisation
• Canonical structures
• Aromatic molecules
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