Keywords:
Physical organic chemistry.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (423 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781483217956
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1822362
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Strained Organic Molecules -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Energy and Entropy -- 1.A Reference States and Reference Books -- 1.B Origin of Molecular Strain -- 1.C Thermodynamics and Symmetry -- 1.D Potential Energy Curves and Zero-Point Energy -- CHAPTER 2. Cyclopropane and Cyclobutane -- 2.A Conceptual Models for the Bonding in Cyclopropane -- 2.B Selected Reactions of Cyclopropanes -- 2.C Cyclobutane -- CHAPTER 3. Unique Strained Groupings or Building Blocks -- 3.A Cycloalkanes -- 3.B Bicyclic, Spirocyclic, and Bridged Hydrocarbons -- 3.C Tetrahedrane -- 3.D Strained Alkenes: Molecules Lacking Torsional Strain -- 3.E Torsionally Distorted π Bonds -- 3.F "Bredt Compounds9' and Cyclic Allenes -- 3.G Cycloalkynes, Benzyne, and Cyclocumulenes -- 3.H Distorted Aromatic Rings -- CHAPTER 4. Polycycles: Aesthetics, Rearrangements, and Topology -- 4.A Adamantanes and Higher Homologues -- 4.B Iceane -- 4.C Miscellaneous Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangements -- 4.D Strained Molecules of Formula (CH)n -- 4.E Additional Polycyclic Molecules -- 4.F Molecular Topology -- CHAPTER 5. Kinetic and Thermodynamic Stability -- 5.A Introduction -- 5.B Orbital Symmetry and Stabilities of Benzene Valence Isomers -- 5.C Transition Metals and Strained Carbocyclic Molecules -- 5.D Strained Heterocyclic Molecules -- 5.E Substituted Derivatives of Strained Molecules -- CHAPTER 6. A Potpourri of Pathologies -- 6.A When is Tetracoordinate Carbon Tetrahedral? -- 6.B Inverted Tetrahedra, Propellanes, Buttaflanes, and Paddlanes -- 6.C Planar Methane and Its Derivatives -- 6.D Five- and Six-Coordinate Carbon -- Addendum -- Index -- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.
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