(H1) Colour-coded diagrams, tables and summaries of Weeks 1-6 CHEM30016 course

Description

This is a compilation of my CHEM30016 notes that I made to revise for exams and to help complete tutorials and quizzes. I cover and explain the course in a simpler way that made use of the verbal explanations in classes, and clarified jargon from lecture slides. These notes contain weeks 1-6 (you can find 7-9 in a separate pdf on StudentVIP because they have an upload limit which my 100 page doc exceeded) 1. Reaction mechanisms in coordination complexes • Substitution & racemisation in octahedral complexes • Electron transfer processes • Organometallic reactions • Catalysis and industrial processes • Homogeneous catalysis • Asymmetric homogeneous catalysis • Heterogeneous catalysis 2. Biochemistry • Ligands: amino acid sidechains; specialised: porphyrins, • Availability of iron, zinc, copper; • Uptake of iron (gut; transferrin; ferritin); • Transport of dioxygen; • Zinc: source of nucleophilic hydroxide; • Copper: essential but toxic; • Photosynthesis 3. Pericylic Reactions • Pericyclic reactions • Frontier molecular orbital theory • Electrocyclic reactions → Cycloaddition reactions → Sigmatropic rearrangements • Radical reactions • Radical stabilities • Radical chain reactions • Halogenation/dehalogenation reactions • Addition reactions → Cyclisation reactions