This short series of lectures will focus on applications of frontier molecular orbital techniques to a variety of pericyclic processes with emphasis on those that proceed thermally. Use of symmetry arguments as an aid to understanding the course of electrocyclic ring opening reactions of cyclobutenes.
Orbital correlation diagrams.
Perturbational treatment of intermolecular interactions and introduction to frontier molecular orbital theory. 2 Cycloadditions . Ring opening of cyclobutenes. Ring closure of hexatrienes. Cyclopropyl halide solvolysis.