Givaudan Karrer Lecture 2015
The Department of Chemistry of the University of Zurich is pleased to announce the Givaudan-Karrer Lectures 2015 by Prof. Dr. Herbert Mayr.
To join the course, please email Mrs. Miriam Plichta: miriam.plichta@chem.uzh.ch
Lecture in this series include
1. Relationships
between Kinetic and Thermodynamic Terms
Definition
of terms used in Physical Organic Chemistry and their relationships for nucleophilicity, nucleofugality, Lewis basicity, Brønsted basicity and
complementary terms.
2. Thermodynamics
a) Stabilities of ions in the gas phase
b) Stabilities of ions in solution (acidity functions, pKa, pKR+, and related scales).
JACS article on Lewis basicities (PDF, 5 MB)
3. Linear free energy relationships
a) Definition
b) Marcus equation
c) Hammett and Hammett-Brown equation
d) Mayr-Patz equation
e) Winstein Grunwald equation
Lecture
Dates | Monday, April 13 | Wednesday, April 15 |
Times | 10:15 - 12:00 | 12:15 - 14:00 |
Rooms | 11 F 06 | lecture hall 91 |
Dates | Monday, April 20 | Wednesday, April 22 |
Times | 10:15 - 12:00 | 12:15 - 14:00 |
Rooms | 11 F 06 | lecture hall 91 |
Dates | Monday, April 27 | Wednesday, April 29 |
Times | 10:15 - 12:00 | 12:15 - 14:00 |
Rooms | 11 F 06 | lecture hall 91 |