Open Shell Intermediates - Structure, Reactivity and Application in Modern Chemistry

Ullrich Jahn

The course aims to provide the audience (PhD and master students) an advanced understanding of open shell intermediates (radicals, triplet carbenes or nitrenes). Their physical organic chemistry provides the basics for applying them in organic and technical chemistry. The general reactivity patterns of radicals, carbenes and nitrenes will be outlined and illustrated by selected modern lines of research and applications. As a result, the audience will be able to predictively apply the principles to their own research problems.