ORGANOMETALLICS (CHEM 530) 2023


Syllabus
Full playlist of lectures on YouTube

DAY 1: Strong Inference + Main Group Organometallics
Worksheet • Lecture VideoHandout
DAY 2: Organotransition Metal Complexes: History, Structure, and Bonding I
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DAY 3: Organotransition Metal Complexes: History, Structure, and Bonding II
WorksheetLecture VideoHandout 1Handout 2
DAY 4: Elementary Reactions I
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 5: Elementary Reactions II
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 6: Elementary Reactions III
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 7: Carbenes and Other M–C and M–X Multiple Bonds I
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 8: Carbenes and Other M–C and M–X Multiple Bonds II
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 9: GUEST – Coordination Chemistry of Isonitrile Complexes (J. Figueroa, UCSD)
DAY 10: Principles of Catalysis and Ancillary Ligand Design
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 11: Catalytic Hydrogenation
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 12: MIDTERM
DAY 13: Catalytic Carbonylation
Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 14: Wacker- and Heck-Type Alkene Additions
Worksheet • Lecture VideoHandout
DAY 15: Allylic Substitution Chemistry
Worksheet • Lecture VideoHandout
DAY 16: Catalytic Cross-Coupling
Worksheet • Lecture VideoHandout
DAY 17: GUEST –Advances in Site-Selective Cross-Coupling (S. Neufeldt, Montana State)
DAY 18: GUEST – Organometallic Fluorination Reactions (N. Ball, Pomona)
DAY 19: GUEST – Application, Mechanism, and Catalyst Activation in the Real World (E. Simmons & M. Joannou, Bristol Myers Squibb)
DAY 20: GUEST – Natural and Artificial Metalloenzymes (H. Renata, Rice)
Lecture VideoHandout
DAY 21: Olefin Metathesis
Worksheet • Lecture VideoHandout 1 • Handout 2
DAY 22: PROJECT – Wikipedia Project Presentations.

2023 Problem Sets, Midterm, and Final (Grading Keys Available Upon Request)
• Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2
• Midterm
• Final