The reactivity of radicals will be used throughout the first half of the course to illustrate the concepts addressed. Bond dissociation energy, Benson's additivity rules, photothermal methods.
Some topics are to new to be included in the current textbooks.
The appropriate reading material will be pointed out in lecture for each topic. These problem sets will not be graded, but will be discussed in class at pre-determined dates. The letter grade is derived from the course mark outlined in the evaluation table above. You must pass both the lecture portion and laboratory portion of this course. Only the term paper with the best grade will be considered for evaluation.