Subject Code: CY7L014	Subject Name: Photochemistry and Pericyclic Reactions	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Prerequisite(s): Nil
Molecular orbitals and symmetry operations; Pericyclic reactions, Froniter orbital approach, Aromatic transition state approach (Huckel and Mobius systems) Woodward Hofmann rule for pericyclic reactions); Electrocyclic Reactions, correleation diagram; Cycloaddition reaction, [4+2]-cycloaddition reaction (Diels-Alder reaction), regioselectivity of Diels-Alder reaction, retroDiels-Alder reactions, heteroatom Diels-Alder reactions, Intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions [2+2]-cycloaddition reactions, 1,3 dipolar cycloaddition reactions; Sigmatropic reactions : Orbital description, [1,5], [2,3], [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement, Claisen rearrangement, Cope rearrangement. Photochemistry: Introduction, Jabolnski diagram, photochemical reactions including photochemical elimination reactions, Norrish type I process, Norrish type II process, photochemical reductions, photochemical oxidations, photochemical cyclization and photochemical isomerization and rearrangement, photosubstitution, photoaddition, Barton reaction, Paterno Buchi reaction, Nazarov cyclization.
Text/ Reference Books: Woodward R. B. and Hoffmann R. The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry, Academic Press. Fleming Frontier Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions, Wiley. Smith M. Organic Synthesis, Mc Graw Hill. Gilchrist T. L. and Storr R. C. Organic Reactions and Orbital Symmetry, Cambridge University Press.