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Chemistry Education 2018 Journal of Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
ISSN: 2472-1123 Page 29
August 27-28, 2018
Zurich, Switzerland
8th Edition of International Conference on
Chemistry Education
and Research
Modern synthesis including asymmetric synthesis, have
made fantastic progress during the last 40 years,
especially by developing and applying new catalytic reactions.
This contributes to render modern technologies more and more
sustainable. Synthetic chemists, biochemists and chemical
engineers must be able to predict whether a given equilibrium
under given conditions will be exergonic or not. For that,
thermochemical calculations and statistical thermodynamics
are extremely simple, accurate and valuable tools to answer
this question. In the same time one needs to be able to predict
the rate of the reactions that will lead to the above equilibrium.
Knowledge of reaction mechanisms (how nature transforms
matter) and theories of reactivity are the most useful tools
to help the molecular scientists. The Vogel-Hook textbook
has been written to help engineers of molecules to approach
satisfying answers to the above questions and help scientists
to understand the dynamics of molecules. It complements
other textbooks of organic chemistry and physical organic
chemistry. It also gives a lot of data the molecular scientists will
find useful for the invention of new reactions and processes.
It presents the most important concepts of the reactivity of
organic and organometallic compounds. The book present 8
chapters that are: equilibria and thermochemistry; additivity
rules for thermodynamic parameters and deviations; the rates
of chemical reactions; molecular orbital theories; pericyclic
reactions; organic photochemistry; catalytic reactions and;
transition metal-catalyzed C-C bond forming reactions. A
companion workbook gives the literature references and
answers to problems.
Biography
Pierre Vogel, PhD degree from the University of Lausanne, 1969 (Prof. H.
Prinzbach). After post-doctoral stays at Yale University, New Haven, USA
(Prof. Martin Saunders) and at Syntex, Mexico-City (Prof. Pierre Crabbé) he
return to Lausanne and become Full Professor of chemistry in 1977, first at
the University of Lausanne, then (2001) at the EPFL. He has authored and
co-authored more than 525 scientific publications and collected more than
12'100 citations.
Organic Chemistry: Theory, reactivity, mechanisms in modern
synthesis
Pierre Vogel1 and Kendall N Houk2
1Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
2University of California, USA
Pierre Vogel et al., J Org Inorg Chem 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-1123-C5-014