Course Calendar

September, 2003

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1	2 Registration Day	3	4 d orbital energies, dn configuration, oxidation states and trends, electron counting Begin Crabtree Ch. 1, 2	5
8	9 18-electron rule, ligand field theory Crabtree Ch. 1, 2 cont’d	10	11 pi-backbonding; phosphine, CO, olefin complexes Crabtree 4 – 4.2 P.S. 1 out	12
15	16 pi-bound ligands: More olefins, alkynes, allyls Crabtree 5 – 5.2	17	18 Nux ligands: dienes, Cp, metallocenes, arenes, COT; fluxionality Crabtree 5.3 – 5.5 P.S. 1 due; P.S. 2 out	19
22 Student Holiday	23 Ligand dissociation/ substitution reactions; bulky ligands, cations Crabtree 4.3 – 4.7	24	25 Oxidative addition, reductive elimination Crabtree Ch. 6 – 6.6 P.S. 2 due; P.S. 3 out	26
29	30 Metal alkyls, beta elimination, alpha elimination Crabtree Ch. 3

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		1	2 Migration/insertion reactions; nucleophilic attack on ligands Crabtree Ch. 7; 8.1, 8.2 P.S. 3 due; P. S. 4 out	3 Add Date
6	7 Alkylidenes and carbenes Crabtree 11 – 11.3	8	9 Coupling, metallacycles, ring contraction Crabtree 6.7 P. S. 4 due	10
13 Columbus Day Holiday	14 Exam	15	16 CH activation in alkanes; CC activation Crabtree 12.3	17
20	21 Olefin isomerization and hydrogenation	22	23 Asymmetric olefin hydrogenation	24
27	28 Olefin polymerization and oligomerization (late metals)	29	30 Hydroformylation and acetic acid	31