CHEM 5547 - Molecular Orbital Theory for Organic Chemistry

(3 credits)

Prerequisites: One year of organic chemistry; one year of physical chemistry. Huckel Molecular Orbital theory, the PMO and FMO methods and their applications to chemical reactivity, aromaticity and antiaromaticity, pericyclic reactions, improvements and extensions of the Huckel theory, molecular mechanics, introduction to semiempirical, Ab Initio and Density Functional methods.

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