Going out in the sun can work wonders for your mood, but unfortunately too much UV exposure can do serious damage to your DNA. This damage occurs through a type of organic reaction called a pericyclic reaction. In this episode of Crash...

Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part One)

Professor Dave explains the science and theory behind pericyclic reactions (Part Two)

After revisiting the Diels-Alder reaction, we are ready to learn about some other cycloadditions with great synthetic utility. This will include 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, which are very neat. Don't take my word for it, check this out!

An introduction to the diels-alder reaction.

Rings upon rings! Forwards and backwards! Give these a shot.

An important class of reactions is the pericyclic reactions. We've been introduced to one subclass of these, cycloaddition reactions, when we looked at the Diels-Alder reaction. For the next few tutorials we will learn about some other...

Just one more on pericyclic reactions! We have to cover electrocyclizations. This way we can talk about neat stuff with frontier molecular orbitals, like conrotatory vs. disrotatory overlap, as well as the important Nazarov cyclization....