Chemistry Enhanced Podcasts, Imperial College London.

Conformational analysis of alkyl substituted alkenes, aldehydes, ketones, esters and amides.

The conformations of alkanes, including butane, from the perspective of the three controlling influences in conformations.

The relevance of conformational analysis, definitions and introduction to the theory.

Case study 8, enol borinates in sterespecific C-C bond formation. The asymmetric Strecker reaction.

Case study 2 revisited: NBO orbitals. Case study 1 revisited: why DNA has the helicity it has

Case study 6, aromatic electrophilic chemistry, Quantum topology

Relative stability of carbonium ions, the dimerisation of the Pirkle reagent, the Diels-alder reaction inside a cavity, molecular tennis balls

Introduction to molecular mechanics, force fields, and geometry optimisation

Introduction to molecular modelling

Examples of sigmatropic rearrangements, including [1,5] hydrogen shifts and [3,3] Cope.

Examples of cycloaddition reations, with two synoptic reactions illustrating both electrocyclic and cycloaddition reactions

A succinct summary of the pericyclic selection rules and examples of electrocyclic reactions

The orbital correlation diagram for cyclobutene/butadiene, and aromaticity.

Historical background, definition and set of categories

An exploration of chemical searching in three dimensions.

Properties searches using Reaxys (Beilstein) and spectral searches. 2D Structure searches using ChemSpider.

A demonstration of the use of Office 2007/EndNote X4 and Mendeley. Use of Web-of-Science for bibliographic searches.

Managing your computer desktop, accessing course notes and citing scientific journals

An overview of information sources for chemists at Imperial College, 2010-2011

The phenomenon of atropisomeris, and restricted rotation in biphenyls