This module teaches fundamentals of pericyclic reactions using examples of biocatalysis, biomimetic catalysis, and natural product total synthesis. After completion, students should be able to ...

A team led by Renxiang Tan and Huiming Ge showed that enzyme-catalyzed pericyclic ... Alder reactions. Another group at SLiS, led by Qiang Xu and Yang Sun, dissects the molecular mechanisms ...

reaction mechanisms, catalytic methods, pericyclic reactions, and protochemistry. Introductory applications of computational chemistry is covered. The course is open to undergraduate students (with ...

Pericyclases catalyse a special class of organic reactions called pericyclic reactions – where the reactants form a cyclical structure ... the team have studied these pericyclases to understand how ...

I contributed to understanding the underlying principles and mechanism through systematic DFT studies ... Guangqing Xu: This work was not only valuable for synthetic organic chemistry but also made a ...