Courses taught by Givens

Undergraduate Courses (2004-5)

Chemistry 628:  Organic Chemistry I (Honors):  Three class periods and one tutorial period each week. This is the first course in a two-semester sequence in organic chemistry for students with strong records in previous chemistry courses and who are planning or considering a major in chemistry or in a chemistry-related field. The coverage will be in greater depth and more emphasis will be given to developing problem-solving skills.

Chemistry 630:  Organic Chemistry II (Honors).  Three class periods and one tutorial period each week. This is the second course in a two-semester sequence in organic chemistry for students with strong records in previous chemistry courses and who are planning or considering a major in chemistry or in a chemistry-related field. The content is similar to that of CHEM 626 but with coverage in greater depth and more emphasis on developing problem-solving skills.

Graduate Courses  (2002-2004)

Chemistry 740:  Advanced Organic Chemistry:  A consideration of the structural features and driving forces that control the course of chemical reactions.  Topics will include acid and base properties of functional groups; qualitative aspects of strain, steric, inductive, resonance, and solvent effects on reactivity; stereochemistry and conformations, an introduction to orbital symmetry control; basic thermodynamic and kinetic concepts; and an overview of some important classes of mechanisms.

Chemistry 742:  Physical Organic Chemistry I.  :  An examination of methods used to probe the mechanisms of organic reactions and of the chemistry of some important reactive intermediates.  Topics will include isotope effects, kinetics, linear fee energy relationships, a continuing discussion of orbital symmetry, rearrangements, stereoelectronic effects, carbocations, carbanions, carbenes, radicals, excited states, and strained molecules.

Chemistry 966:  Physical Organic Chemistry II.  Chemistry 966 is intended for graduate students who wish to gain a more thorough knowledge of mechanism and theory in organic chemistry.  The course will include a detailed consideration of the mechanistic features of some important classes of organic reactions.  Discussions will include an introduction to organic photochemistry, the chemistry of carbenes, kinetics of complex reactions, isotope effects, linear free energy relationships, acid-base catalysis, and applications of molecular orbital theory to organic reaction mechanisms.  Several of these topics were introduced in Chemistry 740 and 742 and will be further elaborated in Chemistry 966.

C2 Symmetry Chiral Lewis Acid (LA) seen from the top	C2 Symmetry Chiral Lewis Acid (LA) seen from the side
Complexation of LA with N-substituted oxazoline type of substrate.

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